Artist. Storyteller.
Vandal.
Working across portraiture, mixed media and installation, exploring womanhood, belonging and reclamation.
Villains
A participatory portrait project about the women we make into monsters.
They called her difficult.
Crazy. Selfish. Attention-seeking.
A liar. A bad mother. A bitch.
Villains is an evolving participatory portrait project reclaiming the stories of women who have been villainised by society and the people around them.
Selected Work
Other explorations in painting, sculpture and mixed media.
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SHARED MEMORIES
Red Chilli Pickle
2026 · Mixed media on canvas
A small coincidence, a shared moment, and an ordinary object that became a container for the memory of a friend.
SCULPTURE
Shotopus
2024 · Air dry clay & mixed media
A strange little creature trying very hard to make itself useful in a world it doesn't quite belong in.
PAINTING
Mermaid in a Bottle
2006 · Acrylic on canvas
Painted at 17, my imagining of a trophy wife being kept from the freedom she belongs to.
Stephanie Jade
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I’m a visually impaired artist, feminist and survivor based in Edinburgh. I’m angry about the ways women are minimised, silenced and made smaller in the world.
My work is an attempt to take up space - through whimsy and celebration, and by giving women back the voice and identity others have tried to take from them.
I make art because I believe stories can change how we see each other. And, in whatever small way I can, I want mine to change something.
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