When attending a Image Based Sexual Abuse workshop at Manchester Art Gallery as art activist practitioners, a survivor mentioned that her experience made her "Just want to smash everything!"; after which, the workshop organisers Sarah Cook and Zoe Corbett then facilitated a plate smashing exercise that all the survivors expressed as being helpful.
Inspired by their strength and conviction in plate smashing, LightUp Collective then developed this project with Cook and Corbett, in which the artist has complete control over their self-portrait which — when designed onto a plate that is smashed — destructs not only the ornamental nature of the plate (which is metaphoric for the presumed ornamental nature of the woman's body) but also the male gaze, in that her image is made and created in such a way it can not be permeated or authority diverted.
