The Body in Women's Art Now is a three part series of touring art exhibitions, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, examining key themes in women's art of the last decade in which the body is central.

The Body in Women's Art Now is a three-part book and exhibition series, edited and curated by Philippa Found, reviewing women's art of the last decade in which the body is central. Each part focuses on a different theme that has emerged in this area of art in the last decade and over the series presents today's generation of women artists who are developing the dialogue surrounding the body in contemporary art.

The Body in Women's Art Now: Part 2 - Flux investigates artworks that present the body as a site of instability and flux. The exhibition will explore how the body in flux becomes a vehicle to both celebrate female sexuality, and/or explore the darker side of human morality - and is used as both a celebratory and/or trangressive entity. The publication for The Body in Women's Art Now: Part 2 - Flux will include original essays contributed by Tracey Warr (writer, editor of The Artist's Body, Phaidon, 2000) and Philippa Found (exhibition curator) and Paul Carey-Kent.

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and female body image. Many artists utilize their own bodies in their work, and in the act of trying to critique the diet industry, they also often become complicit, as they strive to lose weight themselves. Making art and engaging eating disorder communities (in real life and online) often work to perpetuate the illnesses of themselves or others. A core group of artists has worked to show bodies that are outside the norm, paralleling the rise of fat activism in the 1990s and 2000s. Interwoven throughout this inclusive study are related interdisciplinary concerns including sociology, popular culture, and feminism.