Medium
Installation - film, photography, sculpture, drawing, ephemera

Keywords
Archive, museums, trans, healthcare, mental health, waiting, history, disassosiation

Exhibition History
• Top, Queer Britain, London (2025)
• Trancestry, Museum of Transology, Lethaby Gallery (2025)
• Top, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2022)

Top is a single installation made up of over 200 elements made or collected over 6 years. This archive records Bowler’s experience in waiting for, obtaining and recovering from Top surgery

Disguised as a museum store, the work comments on the lack of trans narratives within archival settings, be that the museum, gallery or within healthcare. It questions if this is the goal for a legitimacy of transness, or if we have more power holding our own narratives outside of colonial powers of the institution.

Funders/Commissioners
• Henry Moore Institute

Elements of this work are held in Arts Council Collection and Wellcome Collection