ABIGAIL JACQUELINE JONES
is an autistic, transfemme multidisciplinary artist, performer, writer, community archivist, diy publisher, sexual freedom advocate, and independent academic researcher. her work explores queer/mad/crip approaches to unconventional sexualities, and the transgressive potential of the divergent erotic imagination.
Engaged in neuroqueer and radical forms of artistic production and academic investigation, Abigail’s practice twins experimental performance and theatre-making with the creation, archiving and dissemination of oral histories, community (auto)ethnographies, critical sexuality research, and DIY publications issued by her own risograph micropress. Informed by personal experiences of shame and trauma surrounding trans identity, neurodivergence, and divergent sexuality, her combined creative research practice seeks to dramatically expand our collective understanding of, and destigmatise, the divergent erotic imagination. Affirming the radical liberatory potential of divergent, non-conformist sexualities and erotic ontologies, Abigail's work explores ways in which queer, gender-marginalised, disabled, and neurodivergent folks use their divergent erotic imaginations as emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tools, in order to forge communities with each other, explore their relationships with their marginalised bodies, identities, and neurotypes, and navigate socially and politically hostile environments.
Materials from Abigail's recent research and archival endeavours are to be acquired by the Bishopsgate Institute, and the University of Toronto's Sexual Representation Archive, in 2026. Her creative work has previously been supported by Shape Arts, the BALTIC Gallery, Gateshead, and Arts Council England.
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In addition to her expansive multidisciplinary practice as an artist, researcher, and performer, Abigail is also a prolific independent risograph printmaker and producer of zines. She has sold and distributed her work at arts markets and zine fairs across the UK, including during major events at Tate Britain, the Wellcome Collection, and Glasgow CCA. In 2026, Abigail will be reinventing the imprint under which she has printed and published her own zines since 2023 — The Fifty-Foot Press — as a fully-fledged micropress aimed at publishing literature surrounding queer approaches to kink and alternative erotic expression.
Abigail offers low-cost open-access printing sessions at her riso studio, which can be booked here.
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A full Artist’s CV can be found below.
CONTACT
I welcome correspondence about my creative research practice. If you would like to reach out to me, please drop me an email at the address below.
(I have lived quite a lonely life up until very recently. Even if you were to write to me simply asking for a casual chat about creative and academic stuff, I would probably oblige!)
Email Address: abigail@beanandqueer.com
Instagram: @abigail.is.nancy
Alternatively, if you would prefer, you can fill out the form beneath with your contact details and any message you wish to send my way.
ARTIST’S CV
Current Projects
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The Giantess Speaks is a multidisciplinary creative research project encompassing experimental live performance, visual art, archival, curatorial, and DIY publishing practices, and (auto)ethnographic academic research.
Drawing from Abigail’s twin practices as an artist and independent academic researcher specialising in the study of alternative and queer sexuality, as well as her experiences of processing traumatic historical relationships with transgender identity, neurodivergence, and divergent erotic fantasies, The Giantess Speaks celebrates the potential for the expression of divergent queer ontologies, affinities, kinks, fantasies, and fandoms to serve as subversive, revolutionary tools of healing, transgression and protest for the marginalised body. The Giantess Speaks positions divergent forms of queer embodiment and erotic expression as forms of rebellious "pleasure-praxis” in the face of queerphobic and ableist social and political power structures. Furthermore, it seeks to bring the communities that have amassed around such niche queer ontologies, fantasies, and sexualities on ephemeral corners of the Internet out of the shadows and into wider consciousness — on their own terms.
Disseminating cutting-edge research through radical, avant-garde creative means, The Giantess Speaks investigates ways in which the vast array of divergent approaches to embodiment, identity, creative expression, and the erotic imagination to be found among socially marginalised members of the "size community" can serve as invaluable emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tools, through which they can explore their relationships with bodies, identities, and neurotypes that differ from the social norm. Critically underexplored, and highly misunderstood within what little academic or journalistic literature that has touched upon the subject, “Size” is an inclusive, gender-neutral umbrella term covering a considerable variety of different queer embodiments, fantasies, fandoms, and kinks — which currently lack any sort of unifying taxonomic category according to contemporary queer and critical sexuality scholarship — involving human and/or anthropomorphic bodies of superhuman scale.
Research and archival materials related to The Giantess Speaks will be archived by the Bishopsgate Institute, and the Sexual Representation Archive of the University of Toronto’s Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, in mid-2026.
More information about the project can be found here.
Selected Performances & Exhibitions
Upcoming
March 2026:
Undeveloped 015 — Artist's residency, performance, and artist's talk/film screening in Tooting, London. Hosted by artist/producer collective shelf//break.
So The Government Gave You £10,000 To Talk To A Bunch Of Size Freaks... — Performance lecture on queer archival practices delivered at SizeCon 10, Portland, Oregon.
TBC (Postponed from October 2025):
THIS IS A THREAT — An evening of radical mad/crip performance art hosted by Tamm Reynolds & Chisenhale Dance Space at Piehouse Coop, London.
TBC (Planned Autumn 2026/Winter 2027):
Group exhibition of art, archival material, and zines centred around kink cultures and alternative queer sexualities (Title TBC) -- Toronto, Ontario.
Previous
March 2025:
The Giantess Roars: A Demand for Mad, Queer, Feminist Giantess Rebellion. Performance lecture on the radical potential of erotic expression and creativity, delivered at SizeCon, Portland, Oregon
January 2025:
Naked on Manhattan, performed during SEX SELLS, VFD, London.
June 2024:
Destroying Cities Is Good For Your Mental Health, performed during TRASH (Bad Art Collective), Greatorex St, London.
May 2024:
Nancy//the World: Prologue performed at ASSEMBLE Festival, Streatham Space Project, London.
SCRREW Manifesto performed at Hey Mum 3, Endeavour, London.
November 2023:
Nuclear Armageddon Ain’t Nothin’ But Foreplay: RUNT Trans+ Awareness Week Takeover. Special edition of live-art cabaret Runt of the Litter hosted and curated by the artist, during which she delivered her debut performance of The SCRREW Manifesto.
September 2023:
SCRREW Manifesto (WIP) performed at Bang Average Theatre’s SCRATCH, Staffordshire St Gallery, London.
July 2023:
Nancy & Dora (WIP), performed at Live Art Club, VSSL, London.
May 2023:
Anguish of the Fifty-Foot Woman performed at Raw Eggs, Matchstick Piehouse, London.
February 2023:
A Session with Doctor Cushing performed at Buoyed, Bermondsey Project Space, London.
October 2022:
Anguish of the Fifty-Foot Woman performed at Hoo Hah Halloween Party, Doña, London.
July 2022:
Buoyed, SET Lewisham, London.
November 2021:
Show Me Your Genitals, Baby! performed at:
Brave Face & Friends (London Hospital Tavern, Whitechapel).
Runt of the Litter (Oslo House, Hackney Wick).
August 2021:
Anguish of the Fifty-Foot Woman. Solo visual/live art exhibition, BAGT ArtWorks Project Space, London.
December 2020/January 2021:
ArtWorks Open, BAGT ArtWorks Project Space, London.
June 2019:
The Worst Fate a Man could Ever Suffer. 45-minute performance delivered in immersive set featuring nine original ink drawings and scavenged props, exhibited at the 2019 Goldsmiths BA FA Degree Show.
Awards/Residencies
February 2023:
Awarded funding via Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant fund.
August 2022:
Awarded long-term project support by Shape Arts and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, as part of their joint Emergent programme of grants, residencies and support packages for disabled artists.
February 2021:
Shortlisted, SPACE Studio Awards.
November 2020:
2nd Prize (£500 and solo exhibition), 2020 ArtWorks Open.
Markets/Fairs
September 2024:
FringeFilmFest x SISSY ANARCHY Queer Market, Rich Mix, London
December 2023:
Zine Takeover, Wellcome Collection, London.
September 2023:
PageMasters Zine Fair, South London Gallery, London.
July 2023:
Glasgow Zine Fest, hosted by Glasgow Zine Library, Glasgow CCA.
June 2023:
Queer & Now, Tate Britain, London.
February 2023:
Super Wedge Zine Fair, Two More Years, London
December 2022:
Queermas, Queer Mart Ldn, Aaja @ The Snake Pit, London
August 2022:
“Copy That” Zine Fair, Heart of Headingley, Leeds.
June 2022:
Margate Zine Fair, Elsewhere, Margate.
Norwich Zine Fair, hosted by Common Threads Press at Saint Martin-at-Palace-Plain Church, Norwich.
March 2022:
Grrrl Zine Fair, Newington Green Friends’ House, London.
Education
June-September 2024:
Research Fellow, Human Sexuality PhD Summer Sexuality Fellowship, California Institute of Integral Studies.
2016-19:
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London.