Publications, conferences, podcasts, interviews and workshops

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Presentations:

The Courtauld Institute, as closing Keynote speaker https://www.canva.com/design/DAE1z5LcslQ/o7E4x1CsElZVfCRKKCUBaw/view#1 thanks to Anna Leisching

Royal Ulster Academy https://www.canva.com/design/DAE1z5LcslQ/o7E4x1CsElZVfCRKKCUBaw/view#1

• Recent Conference Papers: 

• Campbell, E. 2023, “Controlling Bodies with Bureaucracy” is Abortion Post Repeal, Lincoln  

• Campbell, E. 2023, “Photography as a Feminist Activist Practice in the Movement for Abortion Rights in North/ern Ireland” Peckham 24 - WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM: RESISTING NETWORKS OF CONTROL, London  

• Campbell, E. 2023, “Art as a Site of Protest and Resistance” Reproductive Justice in a post Covid World Cambridge University,   

• Campbell, E. and Antosik-Parsons, K., 2023. “Conceptualising Reproductive Citizenship Through Abortion Regulation and Experiences on the Island of Ireland” ARJC Regional Europe Webinar on reproductive justice with the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership  

• Campbell, E. and Antosik-Parsons, K., 2023. “Conceptualising Reproductive Citizenship and Theoretical Explorations of Experiences on the Island of Ireland” Repro Cit Project, Trinity. After the review, what next for Irish abortion services? 

  Forthcoming publications: 

• Antosik-Parsons, K, Campbell, E (forthcoming) Using Creative Labor to Imagine Alternative Reproductive Futures: Reproductive Citizenship and Abortion Utopias , InVisible Culture, Issue 41, " (Un)Doing Labor" 

• Conlon, C, Bloomer, F, Campbell, E and Antosik-Parsons, K (forthcoming) “Doing Reproductive Citizenship: conceptualising newly legalised abortion seeking through experience narratives and artivism.” Gender and Justice.

  Publications

• Antosik-Parsons, K, Conlon, C, Bloomer, F, and Campbell, E (2025) “Gender, Nation and Reproduction in the Afterward of Repeal and Decriminalisation”, Irish Journal of Sociology, 33, 1-2, 30-47 https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035251342136

• Array Collective: Campbell, E, Cargnelli, A, O’Connor, L (2024) “Púcaí, Partition and Placards: socially engaged art and political entropy in Northern Ireland” In: “Northern Ireland Beyond 100" edited by Bell, D and O’Dowd, L, Cork University Press https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/9781782055969/northern-ireland-beyond-100/

• Bloomer, F, Roberts, D, and Campbell, E (2024) “Competing framings of abortion in the Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster: the long and winding road to abortion decriminalisation”, Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2024.2375095

• Campbell, E, Antosik-Parsons, K, Bloomer, F, and Conlon, C (2025) Abortion Utopia Toolkit, ReproCit Project. https://reprocit.wordpress.com/toolkit/

• Campbell, E., & Roberts, D. (2024). “Activism is not a one-lane highway”, The diverse modalities of Alliance for Choice and abortion decriminalisation” edited by Field, L and Ómarsdóttir, S. B, Special issue of Irish Political Studies, 1–22.

• Campbell, E (2023) “All we want is, free, safe, legal, local abortion access for everyone who needs it: An examination of the Northern Ireland decriminalisation of abortion campaign” In: "Reproductive Care and Justice” edited by Long, E and Fraser, R. New Area Studies: Special Issue https://newareastudies.com/articles/71/files/66facfbabe7b7.pdf

• Campbell, E., Mansfield, M. and Bloomer, F. (2022). Religion, abortion and the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland. In: P. Birch, C. Murray and A. McInnes, eds., Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion. Taylor & Francis, pp. 150–164.

• Campbell, E. (2022). Art, Alliance for Choice and activism. In: F. Bloomer and E. Campbell, eds., Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Allies and Abortion Provision. [online] London: Bloomsbury, pp. 59–69. Available at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9781350278912/

• Campbell, E. (2022). What Sort Of State Were We In? Alliance For Choice Tackle Westminster. In: F. Bloomer and E. Campbell, eds., Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 161–172.

• Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2022). Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Allies and Abortion Provision. In Bloomsbury (Vol. 2). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9780755642571/

• Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2022). Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. In Bloomsbury (Vol. 1). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9780755642571/

• Hagen, J. J., Campbell, E., & Roberts, D. (2024). “Transformative reproductive futures in Northern Ireland.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1–19.

• Millar, E., Purcell, C., Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2026). Framing a Feminist Abortion. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

• Pierson, C., Bloomer, F., Allamby, L., Campbell, E., Hughes, B., McLaughlin, L. and Powell, R. (2022). After a CEDAW Optional Protocol Inquiry into abortion law: a conversation with activists for change in Northern Ireland. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24(2), pp. 312–328. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2022.2053297

• Campbell, E. (2021). Stanton Healthcare needs to answer for deliberately misleading abortion seekers in Belfast. [online] Shado Magazine. Available at: https://shado-mag.com/all/stanton-healthcare-needs-to-answer-for-deliberately-misleading-abortion-seekers-in-belfast/

• Campbell, E., & Connor, N. (2021). Alliance for Choice submission: Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill. In www.niassembly.gov.uk. Northern Ireland Assembly Commission. http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/committee-blocks/health/2017---2022/alliance-for-choice.pdf

• Campbell, E., Ndolo, P., Kivuti, L., Mwai, K., Chiluba, B., Lukama, R., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Radical Abortion Care in a Pandemic Briefing Report 1, April 2021 Global Policy Review of Abortion in the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic. https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/90894362/Radical_Abortion_Care_in_Covid_19_Global_Policy_Review.pdf

• Chiluba, B., Lukama, R., Ndolo, P., Kivuti, L., Mwai, K., Campbell, E., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Radical Abortion Care in a Pandemic Briefing Report 3, August 2021 Legislative and Policy Analysis and Related Publications within the Zambian context. Ulster University. https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/91973595/Zambia_Radical_Abortion_Care_in_Covid_19_Briefing_Report_.pdf

• Campbell, E., Connor, N., Heaney, S., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Training abortion doulas in Northern Ireland: lessons from a COVID-19 context. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 47(17), bmjsrh-2021-201098. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2021-201098

• Campbell, E. (2021, March 24). Free, safe, legal, local. Https://Www.redpepper.org.uk/; Red Pepper. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/alliance-for-change/

• Campbell, E. (2019, February 21). Now for NI: Fighting for abortion rights in the North (E. Clancy, Ed.). Irish Broad Left. https://irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/21/now-for-ni-fighting-for-abortion-rights-in-the-north/

• Campbell, E. (2018). My Experience of the Together for Yes (TFY) Campaign < SRHM. [online] SRHM. Available at: https://www.srhm.org/news/my-experience-of-the-together-for-yes-tfy-campaign/

• Campbell, E. (2018, May 28). It’s only the North’s leaders who say “no” to abortion rights. Www.thetimes.co.uk. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-only-the-north-s-leaders-who-say-no-to-abortion-rights-m7p0966h9

• Campbell, E., & Clancy, S. (2018). From Grassroots to Government: Engagement Strategies in Abortion Access Activism in Ireland. In Crossing troubled waters: Abortion in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island (pp. 132–173). Island Studies Press.

• Campbell, E. 2017 “When they put their hands out like scales.” In: Female lines: new writing by women from Northern Ireland edited by Linda Anderson and Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado, Dublin, New Island Books, pp.167-171

• Campbell, E. (2017). Alliance for Choice: written evidence to the UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health (APPG) on abortion in Northern Ireland. [online] https://www.appg-pdrh.uk/abortion-report, Westminster: UK Parliament, pp.1–14. Available at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc18cebdf3c7b576d0caacf/t/5ee11942736f5e2ef8eb694b/1591810373028/Alliance+for+Choice+written+evidence.pdf

• Campbell, E. (2016). 'What is feminist art practice and how does it form part of a multidisciplinary approach to research. In “Mind the Gap: Working papers on Practice-based Research in the Creative Arts” . Dublin Distillers Press, National College of Art and Design.

• Campbell, E. (2016). Think women seeking abortion in Northern Ireland have other options? Here’s the reality | Emma Campbell. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/abortion-northern-ireland-sentencing

• Campbell, E. (2014a). Source Photographic Review - Back Issue Archive - Issue 79 Summer 2014 Sexism on Show: Has gender equality in photography moved on from the 1970s? - Www.source.ie. https://www.source.ie/archive/issue79/is79feature_Emma_Campbell_08_43_39_06-07-21.php

  Exhibitions

• Feb-Sep 2023 “Divided Selves” Group Show curated by Hammad Nasar, Herbert Gallery, Coventry

• Aug 2023 “Up the Ass, A tribute” The Night Draws Near, Ulster Museum

• Jan-Sept 2023 The Druithaib’s Ball Array Collective Turner Prize, Ulster Museum

• Aug-Oct 2022 The Druithaib’s Ball Array Collective Turner Prize, Galway Arts Centre Jul 22 When they put their hands out like scales, PhotoIreland 2022 

• June 2022 Protest! Photography, Activism and Social Change in Ireland, group exhibition [with Array Collective], Photo Museum Ireland

• Jun 2022 “Divine it Yourself” Harkin Summit Exhibition w/ University of Atypical

• May 2022 Feminist Constitutions short film commission NI Screen & University of Birmingham

• May 2022 A Bigger Picture - Queer/Feminist Golden Thread Gallery 

• Mar 2022 “Collage: A Political Act”, Talk at Ulster Museum 

• Mar 2022 Divine it Yourself Commissioned work 2021, University of Atypical

• Mar 2022 “Ladies Should visit”, acquired by Ulster Museum Collage: A Political Act

• Dec 2021 An Appropriate Hobby, group show, Mayor’s Parlour, curated by J Morrow

• Sep 2021 Naomi Portrait, Breast Cancer Awareness Month - with the MAC Belfast

• Sep 2021 The Druithaib’s Ball’, Array Collective Turner Prize, The Herbert Coventry

• Mar 2021 NOW100 The Mac Belfast Commission for 100 years of NI 

• Aug 2020 Pride in our Hearts Array Collective Intervention 

• May 2020 Array AN video for Artists Make Change 

• Apr 2020 This Cunt Bites Back for “She Sells Sanctuary” Women’s refuge project

• Dec 2019 Symposium, Array Collective Collaborate! Jerwood Arts 

• Oct 2019 An Appropriate Hobby Street intervention 

• Oct 2019 As others see us Jerwood Collaborate! Array Collective 

• Aug 2019 As Others See Us, Pride parade performance, Array Collective

• Mar 2019 International Women’s Day - Array Collective Performance 

• Jan 2019 Reimagining Global Abortion Politics Exhibition, Ulster University

• Dec 2018 209 Women Group Show, Palace of Westminster, London 

• Oct 2018 Demolition is not a Means Array Collective intervention 

• Mar 2018 An Appropriate Hobby, Lunasa, Belfast 

• Feb 2018 Those Actual Words Array Collective group show, Framewerk, Belfast

• Jan 2018 My Body My Life joint exhibition, Foyles London 

• Dec 2017 My Body My Life joint exhibition, Belfast 

• Dec 2016 Street Art Bites Back Framewerk, Belfast 

• Oct 2016 Someone you Love Copper House Gallery, Dublin 

• Oct 2016 Suitable Hobby Film Base, Dublin 

• Sep 2016 This C*nt Bites Back, Street Art, Belfast 

• June 2016 Labour of Love with Siobhan Clancy and Melissa Madera, Incube, Array Collective

• Mar 2016 When they put their hands out like scales, Feminist Judging Project, Framewerk

• Mar 2016 A Suitable Hobby, Bangkok INROADS 

• Jun 2016 Two for Many, Pollen Studios, Belfast 

• Oct 2015 Two for Many, Trans Art Cavan, Array Collective 

• Oct 2015 A Suitable Hobby INCUBE Solo show 

• Summer 2015 Array Studios InCube, PHD residency 

• June 2015 Silt and Stones Black Box Belfast 

• Dec 2014 Pack up your troubles Panrummet Gallery Sweden 

• Dec 2014 collaboration with Nicole Werniger Platform Belfast 

• Sep 2014 When they put their hands out like scales solo show Platform

• Mar 2014 residency at OKK Gallery Berlin with solo show 

• Jul 2014 residency, Belfast Exposed with Women on Waves 

• Mar 2013 When they put their hands out like scales, Solo show, Copper House, Gallery, Dublin

  Work featured in; Podcasts, papers & interviews 

• March 22 Ulster University, University of Canberra (AUS) and British Council Difficult Conversation Symposium

• March 22 - Talk Art - Season 12 episode 12 Array Collective https://shows.acast.com/talkart/episodes/array-collective

• Feb 22 The Blindboy Podcast - to be released 

• Feb 22 Feb 2022 - BBC Sounds, Red Lines The art of politics and the politics of art, with Mark Carruthers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0blrw4x

• Jan 22 out with you f*cking wh*res! Courtauld Institute Keynote, available to watch online

• Nov 21 Women Shaping the World Podcast - Institut Francais. Episode 8 Jul 21 - Visual Artists Ireland , Episode 5, Podcast 

• Jun 19 ‘Thanks Dad' , BBC Radio 4 Listening Project Clodagh Lavelle & Emma Campbell May 18 Reimagining global abortion politics, by F Bloomer, C Pierson and S Estrada Claudio 

• Apr 18 Speaking of silence, speaking of art, abortion and Ireland. Irish Studies Review, 27(1), pp.73–93.S Chan 

• Chan, S. (2018) Anxiously Present: The Northern Irish Landscape in Recent Photographic Work by Emma Campbell and Mary McIntyre. Ulster University

  Press – Highlights with full list here

• 2020 - Legal Abortion Begins in Northern Ireland.

• 2019 - As Northern Ireland decriminalises abortion, let’s celebrate the women who got us here.

• 2018 – It’s only the North’s leaders who say “no” to abortion rights

• 2018 – Sisterhood and screenshots. The role of memes in #repealthe8th

• 2018 – Fertile Ground: reframing the abortion experience in art and activism, Hero Magazine

• 2018 – Shine Theory In Zagreb: Pizza For Four with Artists Emma Campbell and Siobhán Clancy, The RJ Happy Hour Podcast

• 2018 – How to Capture the 8th Amendment – College Tribune, March

• 2017 – Meet the Irish Photographer Documenting Women in Ireland Who Must Travel Abroad for Safe Abortion

• 2017 – My Body My Life Aims to Challenge Abortion Stigma

• 2016 – Someone you love at Copper house

• 2016 –”Think women seeking abortion in Northern Ireland have other options? Here’s the reality” Guardian, Opinion April

• 2015- Reclaim the Agenda, NVTV

• 2013 - The Works, RTE

• 2013 - Prism

• 2013 - The Irish Times

• 2012 - Huffington Post

• 2012 – Source Magazine Graduate Selection by Brian Dillon

  Array Collective in selected media

• Higgins, C (Dec 2021) The 11-strong Array collective on winning the Turner prize: ‘We’ll have to have a meeting about this!’ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/02/array-collective-winning-turner-prize-belfast-bar-drinking-den

• Sillito, D (Dec 2021) Turner Prize 2021: Irish pub installation wins award BBC News Online https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59490291 

• Hickey, C., Morrow, J.,(Dec 2021) Does the Turner Prize Deserve Better Art? No, But Array Collective Deserves Better Critics The Elephant 

• Pacella, M (2021) Array Collective Shine at this Year’s Edition of the Turner Prize Flash Art https://flash---art.com/2021/12/array-collective/ 

• Leebody, c. (2021) Turner Prize winners Array Collective say work ‘homage’ to Belfast but slam lack of Stormont ‘delivery Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/turner-prize-winners-array-collective-say-work-homage-to-belfast-but-slam-lack-of-stormont-delivery-41115889.html 

• Lloyd-Smith, H (2021)Array Collective wins the Turner Prize 2021 Wallpaper Magazine https://www.wallpaper.com/art/turner-prize-2021-winner-array-collective 

• Jerwood Arts (2021) Array Collective wins the Turner Prize 2021 Jerwood Arts Website https://jerwoodarts.org/2021/12/02/array-collective-win-the-turner-prize-2021/ 

• The White Pube | Turner Prize 2021, Bumper Pack". the-white-pube. Retrieved 2022-01-03.

• Gorny, L. (2021) Winner Array Collective brings political charge to Turner Prize conversation https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/array-collective-turner-prize-art-081221 

  Lectures, workshops and conferences: 

• Feb-March 2023 Artichoke UK, workshops at the MAC, Belfast

• October 2022 - Ulster University MFA guest lecture

• June 2022 - Mactivate, 6 month socially engaged practice writing, zine, banner and postcard project with Alliance for Choice and selected artists

• May 2022 - Artist and Activist invitation - Liberalizing Abortion Rights amidst Global Backlash: Cases from Iceland and Ireland, Iceland Symposium on Abortion

• March 2022 - Amay-Zine with Clodagh Lavelle - Second Collective Zines Workshop for Imagine Festival - for IMagine Festival

• March 2022 - Collage: A Political Act (2022) Talk at Ulster Museum

• March 2022 - British Council in Ireland, St Patrick’s Festival & IMMA - Connections, Belongings, Art & Activism Array Collective in Conversation with Annie Fletcher

• March 2022 - Liberation through creation, a queer introduction to zine making- Inroads Zines Workshop -  with Saint @WeChangeA Jamaica

• February 2022 - Poetry Translation Centre, Polylingual poets guest lecture, London

• February 2022 - Ulster University - Guest Lecture Photography Department, artist practice
  January 2022 - Lecture for MA Art and Social Practice, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland College UHI

• January 2022 - Presentation to Stormont Assembly, All Party Group on the Arts on artist-led spaces and precarity

• March 2021 - NOW100 (2021-2022) The Mac Belfast Commission of short written and audio piece for 100 years of NI

• November 2021 - Ulster University - Guest Lecture 3rd year photography students - working as a collective

• November 2021 - Alliance for Choice & Array Collective. Joint day of talks on art and abortion, Herbert Gallery Coventry

• October 2021 University of Hertfordshire, visiting guest lecture

• December 2021 University of Birmingham Law School, guest lecture at Herbert Gallery

• August 2020 – “Pride in our Hearts” Array Studios Street Intervention

• June 2020 – “Making Change Through Institutions and Archives” Artists Make Change workshop, Array Studios and ANartists Info

• May 2020 - https://youtu.be/txX9NwCJJUQ Array video essay as 1 of 5 case studies for “Artists Make Change”

• May 2020 – ”Never Rarely Sometimes Always” roundtable with the directors – Birds Eye View ‘Reclaim the Frame

• April 2020 CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING Sailortown Recipe Book, submission

• April 2020 – ‘This Cunt Bites Back’ Print for “She Sells Sanctuary” Women’s refuge project

• December 2019 – 'If you don't play the game, don't make the rules' symposium presented by Array as part of the exhibition Collaborate!

• July 2019 – Thinking the Future for Radical Social Change: Dialogues on Theory and Practice, Guest Panellist, Household Belfast & The MAC Belfast

• March 2019 – Interview with Northern Narratives’ Tracy Marshall

• January 2019 – “Reimagining Global Abortion Politics” Book Launch and Solo Exhibition, UNIQUE, Ulster University

• May 2018 – PhotoIreland panel member for event on photography and abortion

• March 2018 - INROADS Bangkok panel on using narrative forms to break stigma

• December 2018 – My Body My Life talk
  MATERNITY LEAVE

• March 2017 – WANDA panel on art and activism in women’s short filmmaking in Ireland

• December 2016 – Equality Commission conference on maternity rights, Titanic, Belfast

• November 2016 – GMB Women’s conference on behalf of Alliance for Choice

• November 2016 – Amnesty conference Time for Change, abortion rights NI

• June 2016 – Reproductive Justice Conference – University of Ulster, Belfast two papers, one performance and facilitation

• April 2016 – NICICTU Women’s Conference, Derry. Proposing support of Trust Women Campaign for Alliance for Choice. Proposal accepted.

• March 2016 – INROADS Abortion Stigma Busting Gathering, Bangkok. Facilitation and presentation of works

• June 2015 – paper accepted for Feminism and the Body in Performance in Dublin’s MART

• June 2015 – Belfast Photo Fringe – exhibition of works in all-woman group show: Silt and Stones

• May 2015 – Remote Photo Festival – a feminist lens

• April 2015 NCAD – Mind the Gap – Dublin - delivered paper entitled “What is feminist activist art practice and how does it form part of a multi-disciplinary approach to research?”

• March 2015 Amnesty – London School of Economics – gathering of academics and activists on subject of working together to make change

• March 2015 RGS Annual Conference – Poster Submitted, won 1st prize in Art & Design

• February 2015 - Amnesty publication of survey and report on abortion access in Northern Ireland – MAC Belfast

• February 2015 NUSUSI Women’s conference Derry

• Feminist Judgments Project – Film Screening of When they put their hands out like scales and talk on using the language of the media to change public discourse.

• Feminist Judgments Project – talk on media as activism/smoke bomb

• January 2015 -Amnesty  - Clifton House Belfast talk and workshop