Julie Cook and Stacey Clare: In Conversation
Join artist Julie Cook in conversation with Stacey Clare at Two Temple Place, as they discuss their work together, the founding of the East London Strippers Collective (ELSC), Julie’s collaborative project with the collective and impact of changes in policing, gentrification and the Olympics on the sex work community.
Julie Cook’s work in collaboration with the East London Strippers Collective is on display in part at Two Temple Place, as part of Lives Less Ordinary.
Stacey Clare’s book, ‘The Ethical Stripper’ is available in our exhibition shop.
The talk will include material of an adult nature. The talk is advised for those aged 16plus and anyone under the age of 18 should be accompanied by an adult.
Doors open from 6.30pm. Talk starts 7pm. The talk will last around an hour including time for questions.
Limited spaces available, booking essential. Please join the waitlist if the event is sold out. Book tickets via Eventbrite or through us directly by emailing info@twotempleplace.org or phoning 0207 836 3715.
Julie Cook (b.St Albans, Herts, UK) was based in London and now lives and works in Ynysybwl, South Wales. An artist whose work is photography based, Julie Cook has engaged with issues of voyeurism within personal and public spaces of the city. Much of the work is collaborative in the making and often in its outcomes. Co-Founder of Invisible Ynysybwl International, a gallery, publisher and collaborative project space.
Julie Cook has focused on exhibition and artists’ book as part of the process of work. Publications include Baby Oil and Ice, Striptease in East London, the Las Vegas Diaries, Some Las Vegas Strip Clubs, Beauties of Today and Olympia Moments Ltd and the E.L.S.C. FILES. The work has been exhibited internationally and is part of private and public collections including the V&A. It was included in a group show, Paris Texas, with Ed Ruscha and Robert Rauschenberg in Dallas and included in – Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 by Gerry Badger, in collaboration with the Martin Parr Foundation, Thames & Hudson (London, UK, 2022).
See more of Julie’s work at www.juliecookphotography.com
Stacey Clare is a performer, published author of “The Ethical Stripper” (2022, Unbound), theatre maker (co-creator of hit show “Ask A Stripper” and cast member of “The Illicit Thrill” at Edinburgh Fringe), activist, and co-founder of the East London Strippers Collective (ELSC). Stacey began stripping in 2006 whilst studying Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, moving to London in 2010 and eventually co-founding ELSC in 2013. ELSC has since flourished into a Community Interest Company (CIC) which is run entirely by strippers and sex workers. Their weekly life drawing class still takes place in East London, at the Crown & Shuttle – a former strip venue. Stacey’s primary focus as an activist is to advocate at all times for the rights and safety for some of the most vulnerable people in society, and to challenge systemic flaws and poor policy decisions that fail to empower and protect sex workers.
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