is an autistic, transfemme multidisciplinary artist, performer, writer, zine publisher, sexual freedom activist, and independent academic researcher exploring queer/mad/crip approaches to unconventional sexualities, and the transgressive potential of the divergent erotic imagination. 

Engaged in neuroqueer and radical forms of creative production and academic investigation, Abigail’s creative research practice twins experimental performance and theatre-making with the creation, archiving and dissemination of oral histories, community (auto)ethnographies, critical sexuality research, and DIY publications issued by her own risograph-based micropress. Informed by personal experiences of shame and trauma surrounding transgender identity, neurodivergence, and divergent sexuality, her combined practices seek to dramatically expand our collective understanding of, and destigmatise, the divergent erotic imagination. Her work affirms the radical potential of divergent and non-conformist approaches to sexuality and erotic fantasy, and it seeks to explore how queer, gender-marginalised, disabled, and neurodivergent individuals use their divergent erotic imaginations as emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tools, in order to reconcile their relationships with their marginalised bodies, identities, and neurotypes, and navigate socially and politically hostile environments.

Abigail is currently embarking upon a long-term creative and academic research project titled The Giantess Speaks. Alongside producing an original body of academic research as a result of this project, described in detail below, The Giantess Speaks will see Abigail produce collections of original writing, live performances, and visual art, as well as curate and programme exhibitions and public events inspired by her work. Entirely self-devised, this project has been supported at various stages in its development by the Bishopsgate Institute, the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Archive, Shape Arts, BALTIC Gateshead, and Arts Council England, and has been championed by prominent artists and sexuality activists including Annie Sprinkle. Individual project collaborators have included kink anthropologist, curator, and former artist publisher Katharine Gates, whose work has previously been platformed by HBO’s Real Sex, New York City’s Museum of Sex, and Yale University, amongst many others — and whose ethnographic explorations of divergent kink communities, documented within her ground-breaking book Deviant Desires: A Tour of the Erotic Edge, Abigail’s work explicitly builds upon.

The Giantess Speaks is an (auto)ethnographic investigation of what has become known in recent years as the “size community” — “size” itself being an wide-ranging umbrella term for a variety of kinks, fandoms, affinities, and fantasies, which can be sexual, romantic, platonic, or simply aesthetic in character, centred around human, anthropormorphic, and even metaphysical bodies of superhuman scale. Since early 2024, Abigail has interviewed over 60 members of the size community, and amassed a vast collection of art, literature, and other ephemera exploring and detailing the lives, experiences, and fantasies of queer, gender-marginalised, disabled, and neurodivergent members of the size community. Over the course of 2026, and into early 2027, Abigail will be archiving her research collections with both the Bishopsgate Institute in London, and the University of Toronto in Canada, and hosting a series of exhibitions, panel talks, community events, and art performances on both sides of the Atlantic surrounding the accession of these collections. She will also be developing her debut full-length solo theatre show — under the working title Naked On Manhattan — over the course of this period.

Over the past two years, Abigail has also begun to sell zines and poster prints produced from her own risograph studio — ‘The Fifty-Foot Press’ — both online and at events across the UK, including Glasgow Zine Fest, Tate Britain’s Queer & Now, Grrrl Zine Fair, and Margate Zine Fair. Alongside selling art prints and zines to raise money for her academic and performance practices, Abigail is able to offer open-access print sessions from her back-garden studio, through which her fellow writers, artists and zine-makers can come to print and publish their own work at an affordable rate.

Artist’s Biography

Research Conversations

Live Art & Performances

The Giantess Speaks aside, Abigail has embarked upon several smaller-scale, but no less ambitious, performance projects throughout her career. These projects have incorporated a range of different disciplines — immersive live art, site-specific communal performance interventions, theatrical storytelling, cabaret sets and spoken-word — and have encompassed a variety of different subject matters. These have included the medical pathologisation of gender non-conformity; the Social Model of Disability; social antagonism towards male-to-female transition and the socio-sexual hierarchy within historical and contemporary Britain; and the deeply prejudiced attitudes maintained by British conservative elites surrounding race, gender, class, and the nation’s histories of imperialism and subjugation.

Live Art & Exhibitions

Short Stories & Research Archive

The Fifty-Foot Press is Abigail’s DIY publishing imprint and risograph studio. With the help of a second-hand riso duplicator, since early 2023 she has been producing zines and risograph prints from a small studio in her back garden, which she distributes and sells via an online shop on this very website, and at zine fairs and independent art markets across the UK.

Alongside printing and distributing her own work, Abigail has also produced zines featuring the written work of some of her previous collaborators, and has also facilitated open-access printing sessions on behalf of other artists. If you are interested in printing your own work at her studio, click here for further information.

The Fifty-Foot Press

 ILLUSTRATIONS

Every so often, when she isn’t working on a new performance piece, or producing zines or prints on the risograph, Abigail will produce the odd pen-and-ink illustration, digital poster or hand-drawn map. A few such illustrations and posters can be seen in her online shop, and can be viewed in the gallery below.

One such piece — …Not to Mention Napier — was a prize-winner at the 2020 ArtWorks Open, hosted by the Barbican Arts Group Trust. Detailed images of this piece, for which the artist was awarded a cash prize of £500 and the opportunity to curate her own solo exhibition, can be viewed in the banner slideshow above; similarly, an image showing the piece in its entirety can be viewed in the gallery below.

Illustrations and Zines

THE STRANGERS’ GUIDE

is a small series of hand-drawn maps Abigail began producing over the winter lockdown of 2021. The Strangers’ Guide details the street plan of central London from South Kensington to Aldgate and King’s Cross to Kennington, and features over 200 pinpointed landmarks. A timeline of the city’s history and a brief guide to certain local neighbourhoods can be found on the reverse of the folded version of the Guide, available to purchase through Abigail’s online shop. A white-on-black version of the map, giclee printed to A1 scale on archival-quality 300gsm Hahnemühle Pearl paper, can also be purchased from the same store.