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Can You Hear Me? film still, 2025

Ab Thomas

Art and English Literature

My practice questions patriarchal authority as critique of medical misogyny, confronting the disparity between male & female healthcare. My practice recognises the growing awareness of the deficiency of research concerning women’s health ridiculing the importance society dictates to ED (erectile dysfunction) in comparison to gynaecological health. Influenced by my own PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) diagnosis at age 15 my practice is orientated within my own personal experiences.

My work regards and critiques the societal obsession that enforces men with bigger dicks to be more masculine, that views the ability to maintain an erection of utmost importance. My sculptures developed from the desire to reflect the domination of the patriarchy in the medical field. 

My work utilises ready-made imaginings of cocks used for hen parties, their inauthenticity repurposing the penises as ridiculous spectacles, redeploying symbols of patriarchal power. My work critiques medical misogyny through crude allusions of women being silenced by the struggle of an inflatable dysfunctional penis to maintain its erect state. 

Big Dick Energy (Close up), modroc, birth control leaflets, 2024
I’m Just a Woman, repetitive screen printing, 2025
Average Dick Energy, clay, 2025
Torsos, ceramic, 2024

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