Art & Social Advocacy Collectives | founder/co-founder
Craft Cartel Radical craft posse ‘for crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies’, 2009-present
Femme Fight Club Women’s only strictly non-spectator art-bash, breaking stereotypes, not bones, 2010-present
Expen$$$ive All-femme, famous, gaymous supergroup, music-free since 2014
Knit Your Revolt Nation-wide craftivist gang sticking their needles to extreme conservatism, 2013-2016
La Barbe Australia Aussie branch of French satirical feminist activist group, 2012-2013
Live Art | solo work/primary artist
2018 Where do I begin? Where do I end? performance, Feminist Artists Anonymous, KINGS ARI, Melbourne
2017 Waste Not, 6hr performance/installation, The Beholder, SomoS Gallery, Berlin
Bye-bye, baby, endurance performance, Horizons, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne
2016 sMother, 5 day performance/installation, Venice International Performance Art Week, Venice
Programmed to Reproduce, 7 day performance/installation, Festival of Live Art, Melbourne
2015 Body of Work, 3 week performance/installation, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery and online, Melbourne
2013 Casting Off My Womb, 28 day performance/installation, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin
2011-17 Femme Fight Club, 11 x performance/happenings: Edinburgh Gardens, Melbourne; Trocadero Gallery,
Melbourne; Bristol Biennial Community Art Festival, Bristol; FEAST Festival, Adelaide; Görlitzer Park, Berlin
Live Art | collaborations
2015 I’m a Star, Expen$$$ive, KINGS Gallery, Melbourne
Come In Lovers, We’re Doing Witch-Craft, Expen$$$ive, Metanoia Theatre, Melbourne
2014 Expen$$$ive Posing, Found Festival, Melbourne
2012 Shiny Shiny, Tropical Fruits Festival, Lismore, NSW
Exhibitions
2018 Growing Change, installation in Queer Threads, Assembly Point, Melbourne
2017 Bad Blood, installation in Blood: Life Uncut, London Science Gallery, London
2016 Give us a smile,sweetheart, knitted work in Meridian Midsumma Visual Art Exhibit, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
2015 Attention Whore, knitted work in f generations: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Femme Fight, photograph documentation in Ladyfest Paris, EspaceB, Paris
2010-15 Cunt Fling-Ups, feminist street art in numerous locations; Melbourne, New York, Paris, Berlin, Vatican City
2010 Crocheted Explosives & Children Overboard embroidery in We Craft This City, Object Gallery, Sydney
Community Art | primary artist/producer
2017 Lady Blizzard, community art workshops and exhibition at Neighbourhood Justice Centre, Melbourne
Hidden Agenda, curation of 18 local and international visual and performance artists and workshops,
Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Foot-Hold street-craft, workshops and exhibition for young people of recent migrant and refugee
backgrounds, SIGNAL, Melbourne
2013 Knit Your Revolt Anti-Misogyny banner, multiple workshops and installations: Melbourne, Hobart, Perth,
Wagga Wagga, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney
2012 Knitted Genitalia & Femme Fight, workshops and performance, Feast Fest, Adelaide
Radical Crochet & Femme Fight, workshops and performance, Bristol Biennial Community Arts Festival, Bristol
2009-10 Trashbag Rehab, numerous craftivist workshops, parks, pubs & galleries, Melbourne
Presentations and panels
2018 International Women’s Day, Craft, Melbourne
2014 AGDA A20 Awards (Presenter), MONA, Hobart
Dream Big Conference (Presenter), Narrandera, NSW
Feminism & Practice, Cherchez La Femme, Melbourne
Art & The Body, FOLA, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne
2013 Women Say Something, Midsumma, Melbourne
Media and Publications | select
Film & TV
Fear of the Female, Art Bites documentary, ABC iview, 2017
The Feed 3rd Anniversary Special, SBS2, 2016
Why Casey Jenkins Is Knitting Your Online Abuse, ABC, 2016
Intimate Knitting, The Doctors, CBS (USA), 2014
Knitting With A Difference, 3News (NZ), 2014
Vaginal Knitting, SBS2, 2013
Knit Your Revolt, Southern Cross Evening News, 2013
Passionate Knitters, WIN Evening News, 2013
Making It Handmade, (full length documentary), ABC2, 2012
Guerrilla Craft, Sunday Arts, ABC, 2009
Audio
Spencer, M. Episode 9 Casey Jenkins, Auspicious Plastic (podcast), Dec 5 2017
Oriogun-Williams, F. and Krish, J. What happens when we talk about periods, Science Gallery London (podcast), Jul 2017
Moodie, G. Knitting a response to gendered abuse, Radio National Books & Arts. ABC national radio broadcast, Mar 12, 2016
Cathcart, M. Casey Jenkins’ Body of Work Radio National Books & Arts. ABC national radio broadcast, Apr 9, 2015
Donisthorpe, S. Is Vaginal Knitting Art? Radio National Books & Arts, ABC national radio broadcast, Dec 9, 2013
Thomas, J, Interview with Casey Jenkins Jay Thomas Program, USA: SiriusXM national radio broadcast, Dec 5, 2013
Text | Art Books
Kontturi, K. “Craft, Collectivity and Event-Time” in Craft Economies: Cultural Economies of the Handmade, eds. Luckman, S. & Thomas, N. 42-44. Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2018
Vannier, C. Ceci n’est pas un pull – Le tricot et le crochet dans l’art contemporain, 206-211, Pyramid Editions, France, 2017
Emery, E. “From Stitching by Candlelight to Crafting Online: Textiles, self-representations and continuing histories of subversive stitches” in Cut Cloth- Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, ed. Ford, S. PO Publications, UK, 2017
Stenke, V. and Pagnes, A. eds. Fragile Body – Material Body: Venice International Performance Art Week III, 194. Vest & Page Press, Venice, 2017
Greer, B. Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism. 116-123. Arsenal Pulp Press, USA, 2014
Text | Journal Articles
Barbour, K., & Mansfield, L. Intersections between corporeal performance & distributed digital audiences: Casey Jenkins & remediated artistic practice, The Drama Review, 2017
Gauthier, R. L’art comme expérience informelle, texteimage – revue d’etude du dialogue texte-image, 2017
Stevens, L. Sometimes Uncomfortable, Sometimes Arousing’: The Slow Dramaturgy of Casey Jenkins’s Craftivist Performances, Theatre Research International, 2016
Clarke, K. Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories, Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2016
Text | Key News Articles
Harveston, K. 8 Subversive Women Artists to Know, BUST, USA, Mar 30, 2018
Ings, S. Bloody exhibition is only for the brave and the bold, New Scientist, UK, Oct 20 2017
Vulcan, J. Shifting Gravity’s Centre, RealTime, Feb-Mar 2017
Grant, M. Casey Jenkins’ Programmed To Reproduce Project Turns Online Harassment Into Art, Bustle, USA, Mar 8 2016
Cook, D. What happens when your life goes viral?…Casey Jenkins responds with new work, Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 1 2016
Sisley, D. The artist fighting internet trolls with her menstrual blood, DAZED, UK, Mar 1 2016
Jenkins, C. Why Casey Jenkins is vaginal knitting your online abuse into art, ABC News, Feb 28 2016
Frank, P. ‘Vaginal Knitting’ Artist Strikes Back At Haters In The Best Possible Way, Huffington Post, USA, Sep 24 2015
Voon, C. Artist Threads Angry Internet Comments into New Vaginal Knitting Project, Hyperallergic, USA, Sep 23 2015
Mazza, N. Interview With Craftivist Casey Jenkins, SHE/FOLK, USA, Jun 24 2015
Frank, P. You Can Hire This Performance Artist To Do Just About Anything…, Huffington Post, USA, Apr 7 2015
Christmass, P. Gun for Hire, Broadsheet, Apr 2 2015
Jenkins, C. I’m selling myself as art and you pick the price, but what is work anyway?, Guardian, Mar 16 2015
Malone, L. Artist Casey Jenkins Is Back And Open For Business, Vocativ, USA, Mar 14 2015
Bennett, A. So Expen$$$ive, So Gorgeous, TAR magazine, Italy, May 17 2014
Jenkins, C. I’m the ‘vaginal knitting’ performance artist, and I want to defend my work, The Guardian, Dec 17 2013
Morse, F. The reaction to my vaginal knitting shows society is still telling a woman what to do with her body, Independent, UK, Dec 17 2013
Solaro, A. Vagina knitting: l’arte del ricamo intimo, Marie Claire, Italy, Dec 12 2013
Malone, L. Meet the world’s most famous vaginal knitter, Salon, USA, Dec 8 2013
Rees, E. Casting off shame through vagina knitting, The Conversation, Dec 5 2013
Fromenty, H. A Female Matter, Broadsheet, May 24 2013
Lassalle, A. La couture, nouvel aiguillon féministe en Australie, Le Monde, France, Mar 15 2013