Lady Skollie (b. 1987) – aka Laura Windvogel – is a South African feminist artist and activist. She employs ink, watercolour, and crayon to address topics such as sex, pleasure, consent, human connection, violence, and abuse. Her work explores themes related to the erotic and the complexities of human experience. Alive with emotional, political, sexual turmoil and loud questioning voices, Lady Skollie’s works depict relationships between godlike figures and flawed mortals singing, grunting, reflecting, gushing. Her characters writhe, twist and dance, queue and hold each other up. The moniker ‘Skollie’ is a widely used derogatory term to describe a shady character, historically used in South Africa when a person of colour was in a place deemed unsuitable by the white populace. Lady Skollie embraces this shadiness, combining it with an interplay of masculine and feminine energies, creating a space where the disparate parts of her personality are reconciled. The artist explains: “I just like having an alias. You feel like you can take more risks under a pseudonym… there is a psychology behind aliases, a kind of strength that they give you.”