In Thick Skinned, Glynis Humphrey, Suzy Lake and Lisa Deanne Smith use their own skin as both performative site and visual image. In risking their own skin they transform personal insight infused with a feminist consciousness, into acts of defiance and self definition. The works in this exhibition include still prints as well as video and challenge Western European histories regarding the female body as a politicized, problematized and contested site of meaning. Informed by feminist history and theory, but also inspired by personal experience, these works not only criticize and confront female subjectivity but also through using the skin as a medium and as a metaphor they embody the potential for healing, growth, transformation and renewal.