Bodies of Work is a collaborative student project, organised between postgraduates at Cambridge and Sussex, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It forms the second issue of Women and the Arts, a journal published by The Arts Society, Newnham College in December 2009 that marked the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf's talk, 'Women and Fiction', which was hosted by The Arts Society in 1928, and its subsequent publication as of A Room of One's Own in 1929.

Bodies of Work has grown and emerged from this celebration of women's writing, and expanded to an interdisciplinary and transmedial project, bringing together the work of writers, academics, students and arts practitioners from across the UK and internationally.

From feminism to filmmaking, puppetry to pornography, biography to body-language, gardening to Gok Wan, Bodies of Work turns the body inside out, traces its history, watches it dance, listens to its speech and sets it to work. As a project, it is composed of a printed anthology, launched on the 11th May 2010 and freely available from The Arts Society, and this more cellular, organic archive here.

Together, the two halves endeavour to create a many-headed and growing body of work out of itself. You are invited to read across the pieces, draw from them and on them to connect the bodies show here in provoking and unusual ways.