Flying Fox Woman
WOMEN’S
SAFETY PROJECT
Flying Fox Woman is a groundbreaking participatory art project transforming women's safety experiences into powerful artistic actions, culminating in a major exhibition at Logan Art Gallery. Drawing from Bec Mac’s Churchill Fellowship research into global safety initiatives, this experimental project challenges conventional urban safety approaches by prioritising belonging and place.
Through structured workshops, participants engage in night-time safety mapping, create mythological feminist guardian masks, and participate in professional photographic portraits. The project culminates in nocturnal projections onto previously identified unsafe spaces and a comprehensive exhibition at Logan Art Gallery.
Drawing on traditions of feminist public art activism from artists like Judy Chicago, Ana Mendita and Suzanne Lacy, Flying Fox Woman hope to demonstrate that true safety emerges not from surveillance and barriers, but from communities where everyone feels they genuinely belong.
CREATIVE TEAM
Rebecca McIntosh
❋ LEAD ARTIST ❋ PHOTOGRAPHERChristina Lowry (Winner of RADAF 2025 Art Award for Environmental Art).
❋ COSTUME DESIGN Claudia Williams (The Waste Wardrobe)
❋ MASK MAKING WORKSHOP Artisan
❋ TECHNICAL & EVALUATION Stephanie Wythe Urban and Social Planner - University of Queensland
❋ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Claire Brevitt
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Come to the Public Forum
Join us on the safety walk
Be part of the mask making workshop
Be part of the portrait photography shoot
Attend the exhibition
PROJECT TIMELINE
Public forum Churchill FellowshipThursday March 19 Logan Art Gallery
Safety Mapping
April 15 Logan City
Community Engagement - Public presentation of Churchill Fellowship findings by Bec Mac, establishing the theoretical foundation and inviting participants to participate in the project.
Creative night time interventions - video projection.
Aug 15 – 17 City of Logan - Safety Walk Route
Exhibition
Dec 9 Logan Art Gallery
Supported by University of QLD & Zonta - Guided night walk to identify unsafe or unwelcoming areas, documented through audio recordings, photography, and community mapping exercises. Location TBC as it needs to be identified through community and stakeholder consultation.
Presented in partnership with Artisan, a workshop led by a leading local craft maker in creation of mythological feminist guardian figures, allowing participants to craft their own protective urban mythology through mask and character development, story sharing and slow making.
Mask Making Workshops May 16 Logan Art Gallery
Photographic Portraits by Christina Lowry and styling and costumes by Claudia Williams. Documentation of participants (Phase 3.) as their created characters.
Portraits PhotographedJune 15 Studio TBC
Over three nights creative interventions through nocturnal projections of portraits of the women (Phase 4.) onto previously identified unsafe spaces (Phase 2 safety mapping). This will be documented in video and photography. The screen in Slacks Creek TBC. This maybe a public event.
Large-scale portraits digitally printed
