Release Your Inner Rebel and win exciting prizes!

The #Rebel Selves Smartphone App is designed to make selfies glitchy and fun. It was created by Charlotte Roe, an artist based in Huddersfield, and Dr Dawn Woolley, an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University, with support from a Leeds Arts University and the HE Innovation Fund.

Dawn researches social networking sites and selfies. Because it is difficult to achieve beauty ideals, selfie taking can cause low self-esteem and body image issues. The app is one of the creative approaches she is developing to challenge gender and beauty ideals and reduce these risks. 

To launch the app and share her important research, she is running Release Your Inner Rebel Selfie Competition to find the most creative images that can be produced using the app.

The Release Your Inner Rebel Selfie Competition is free and very easy to enter. Participants create selfies using the app http://www.rebelselves.com and submit them here. 

Winning entries will be shared online and exhibited in a poster exhibition around Leeds (Sponsorship kindly provided by Pop Art).

Dawn is running some free online workshops to introduce the competition and the app. Sign up here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/release-your-inner-rebel-selfie-competition-workshops-tickets-946353116647 if you’d like to learn more.

The deadline to enter is Sunday 27th October 2024.

Winners will be announced on Saturday 23rd November.

Our exciting panel of expert judges are: Maya Fuhr, fashion photographer and philanthropist in LA; Dr Michael Petry, artist, author and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) London; Jung Me Chai, gallerist and founder of Diskurs Berlin; Mindy Lee, artist and curator of Blyth Gallery London; Matthew Pendergast, Curator and Deputy Director, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

Prizes

First Prize: £100 Amazon voucher from Leeds Arts University

Second Prize: £50 Voucher for Take It Easy Photo Lab

Third Prize: £30 CuratorSpace Artist subscription

Fourth Prize: MirrorMirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art By Michael Petry (brand new and due to be published by @thamesandhudson on 14 November 2024)

Thank you to these organisations for providing these amazing prizes.

Terms and conditions

The judges decisions are final.

Prizes cannot be swapped.

Images deemed to be offensive or depict risk to the selfie-taker / others will not be shared.

Any questions can be directed to Dawn at dawn.woolley@leeds-art.ac.uk