Paula Chambers: Still. Stray. Stowaway.

Tsionki, Marianna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-2076 and Dimitrakaki, Angela (2025) Paula Chambers: Still. Stray. Stowaway. RSS Press. ISBN 978-87-94538-12-1

Abstract

Paula Chambers: Still. Stray. Stowaway. is a solo exhibition by British artist and academic Paula Chambers, held at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University from 23 May to 27 September 2025. Curated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marianna Tsionki, the exhibition presents a constellation of sculptural assemblages, interventions, and installations that interrogate the domestic sphere as a contested site of feminist resistance, material transformation, and personal negotiation. The exhibition brings together new works and previously exhibited pieces, many of which were developed through Chambers’ nomadic method of transporting her sculptures in a suitcase. This mobile approach enables site-responsive configurations and challenges the assumption that artworks must exist within stable, institutional settings to be recognised or valued. The title Still. Stray. Stowaway. encapsulates the exhibition’s central themes—embodied acts of defiance, transgression, and survival—while highlighting the precariousness of domestic life and the porous boundaries between private and public space. A key focus of the exhibition is the relationship between feminist material practices and the sculptural object as both a vessel of memory and a mode of resistance. The works on view blur distinctions between care and containment, protection and control, visibility and marginalisation.

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