The Gown Project.

The Gown Project is an ongoing participatory project that uses hospital gowns as a powerful canvas to explore lived experiences of women's health. Through embroidery, protest, and storytelling, each gown becomes a site of resistance—challenging gendered biases in healthcare and the silence surrounding hidden illnesses. This project invites members of the community to stitch their own narratives onto the hospital gown fabric, creating space for collective healing, visibility, and dialogue. At its heart, the project is about reclaiming the clinical garment as a symbol of agency rather than vulnerability, fostering a sense of solidarity and shared strength among those who have felt unseen or unheard within the healthcare system. The community project will cumulate into an exhibition in 2026. So far this year workshops have been run at the Vagina Museum, Trinity College at Oxford University and in West Sussex.

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