“The true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts, it begins in women’s soul.”
Emma Goldman
Holes Big Enough for Women, 2025
Liz Murray is an artist, academic, and ardent letter writer.
Image credits:
Front and back cover:
Just Before Dawn an Embarrassment, (detail) 2020
45 x 70 x 32 cm
Jesmonite, plaster, paint
© Liz Murray
Page 5:
Sarah Everard Vigil, Clapham Common, March 2021
© Christopher Bethell
All other images & drawings:
© Liz Murray
www.lizmurray.co.uk
This edition was made in collaboration with the online art history journal British Art Studies as part of its special issue “Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s” (Issue 27, 2025).
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Thanks to:
The guest editors of the British Art Studies special issue “Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s”: Fiona Anderson, Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon, and Laura Guy; as well as Baillie Card and Tom Powell on the journal’s editorial team.
Delma Hughes (for sharing stories)
Nicky Coutts (for design and moral support)
Grand Camp Maisie Fund
