ABOUT

CW Stubbs is a London-based artist, writer, and independent scholar whose practice spans painting, digital media, and socially engaged collaboration. Originally a large-scale video artist, her early works created from her own paintings, drawings, and collages, were projected across underground raves and the international club scene for the first decade of her career. From balaclava-clad demon beauties to apocalyptic children and botanical skulls, her work has always found beauty and vibrancy in the  marginalised and unseen. Her paintings and images have appeared in group shows across the UK and internationally, as well as on book and album covers. Between 2022 and 2025, Stubbs was Co-Director, Organiser, and Curator of Nasty Gallery, an independent London platform for feminist and political art and a branch of Nasty Women London. There, she built the gallery's public presence, curated exhibitions, and ran workshops centring women's voices and activist practice — working to support mid-career female artists through a collaborative, non-institutional model. Since stepping back from that role, Stubbs has refocused toward more sustainable and collaborative ways of working: deepening her studio practice, expanding into published writing and research, and folding her therapeutic training into new creative forms. Her essay on feminist collaboration and collective refusal — examining Aida Wilde and Nasty Gallery's 2025 International Women's Day takeover — was peer-reviewed and published in Feminist Art Practices and Research (Taylor & Francis, June 2026).