Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming
Tsionki, Marianna 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-2076 and Pollock, Griselda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6752-2554
(2024)
Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming.
RSS Press, Copenhagen.
ISBN 978-87-94538-04-6
Abstract
Embodied Dreaming accompanies the exhibition of the same name by British artist and academic Prof. Sheila Gaffney, held at the Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University from 4 October 2024 to 11 January 2025. Edited by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marianna Tsionki it features a curatorial introduction by Tsionki, and a new essay by the acclaimed feminist postcolonial and social art historian Prof. Griselda Pollock, which situates Gaffney’s practice and Pollock’s own relationship to it in a history of women artists and their practices of making, from the 1860s to the 1970s until today. The texts are accompanied by full colour images of Gaffney’s work. Sheila Gaffney’s Embodied Dreaming is a comprehensive exhibition that highlights the artist’s diverse body of work, including sculptures, drawings, video installations, and unseen process-based models. Curated to reflect Gaffney’s interdisciplinary approach, the exhibition emphasizes the importance of materiality and process in her practice, drawing connections between the physical act of making and theoretical exploration. Inspired by Gaffney’s doctoral thesis, the show integrates psychoanalytic theory and feminist aesthetics, offering a nuanced examination of identity, memory, and embodiment. The curatorial focus is on the evolution of Gaffney’s sculptural language, balancing tradition with innovation and offering insight into her creative journey. Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming is an Open Access publication published by RSS Press, which can be downloaded from the LAU repository and RSS website.
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