Beth Knight - Who Told You To Be Small

at Lost Cat (Manchester)
£13.00

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Apart of the Women in Comedy Festival


Glasgow-based artist Beth Knight used nude self-portraits to overcome the shame she held about her body. She started small, painting herself in an unflattering light crying, and showing that painting to the world.

Piece by piece, she put her loathing about her looks on blast, with each painting becoming larger and more intimate.

It culminated in a pop-up gallery using wall-sized advertisement space in the London Underground, with her painted nude portrait standing 5 and a half meters tall for the world to see. She tackled the misogyny around the standards of beauty that kept her hiding her body for decades by diving into the fear with art and laughter.

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Lost Cat (Manchester)

64 Oldham Street
Northern Quarter
Manchester
M4 1LE

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Lost Cat (Manchester)

64 Oldham Street
Northern Quarter
Manchester
M4 1LE

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on Sun 12 October 2025