'Red in Tooth and Claw' took its title from a phrase found in a poem by Alfred Tennyson in which the poet describes an anthropomorphic being who ~ in a defiant clawing-away at the strictures of a fixed, coherent identity ~ is seen to enter a state of 'becoming-monstrous'.
In unsnarling the phrase from its history of androcentrism, the artists in this exhibition reframed the destructive and transformative power of the monstrous as a political nexus that, not only figures a transgression of an established social norm, but also fosters empathy, empowerment and discovery.