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Hester Reeve serves as Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and Artist-in-Residence within the Department of Philosophy at King's Culture, King's College London. Her practice bridges academic philosophy, performance art, and socio-political activism through institutional collaborations and site-specific public works.
Her educational foundation includes a BA in Fine Art from Northumbria University with a year at the Art Institute of Chicago. Early career involved environmental NGO work in Czechoslovakia and pioneering prison-based art programs at HMP Lancaster Castle.
Reeve's research interrogates classical philosophy through contemporary performance, exemplified by Ymedaca (Yorkshire Sculpture Park), which recontextualized Plato's banishment of artists. Her practice integrates oral history methodologies, feminist legacies via the Emily Davison Lodge co-founding, and carceral reform through Prison Dialogue associations. Key projects engage with suffragette history, environmental justice, and institutional critique across venues including Tate Britain and Tanzquartier Vienna.
She actively participates in the Performance Philosophy international research network, with recent outputs emphasizing collaborative, community-engaged art as philosophical inquiry. Major works consistently explore power structures through embodied practice and historical reclamation.
