PISSING WOMEN

Sophy Rickett, Chila Burman MBE, Lily Cole , Patricia Nilsson

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CHEERIO Publishing
01 January 2026

Photographs: portraits; Feminism & feminist theory

Pissing Women, visual artist and photographer Sophy Rickett's influential series of portraits of women pissing in public, caused a storm in the art world in 1994. Now, thirty years later, these era-defining images are reproduced with testimonies from the writers, musicians, artists and creatives on whose work they have had a profound influence.

Featuring positioning essays from and interviews with musician St Vincent, poet Eileen Myles, artist Chila Burman, choreographer Holly Blakey, filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, actor Lily Cole, comedian Sophie Duker, photographer Juno Calypso and more, Rickett's pioneering exploration of female identity, memory and the upheaval of the post-Thatcher years is revisited here

and remains as remarkable in the 21st century as it did three decades ago.

'Funny, weird [and] confrontational...

Pissing Women has an intensity while also being deeply funny.'

St Vincent

'Part desire...part social commentary, Rickett mixes the comic with the seditionary. Forget your better judgment and head for high rise enlightenment.'

TimeOut

By: Sophy Rickett
Contributions by: Chila Burman MBE, Lily Cole, Patricia Nilsson, Sophie Fiennes
Imprint: CHEERIO Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781917283090
ISBN 10: 1917283091
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sophy Rickett is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work is held in major public and private collections such as the UK Government Art Collection and the Federal Reserve, Washington D.C. It has also been featured in mainstream media outlets including The Observer and Liberation. Her ground-breaking series Pissing Women (1995) was first published in a limited-edition monograph by Climax Books (2023). In addition to her artistic practice, she is a Reader at the University of the Arts London.