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‘The desire for fat people is a strange one for the public to grapple with; it's not depicted in much media unless you count PornHub or a punchline to a shit joke made by an edgy bore. The desires of fat people are depicted even less so. I think it confuses people almost as much as the act of murder itself.’

• Alison Spittle

Mouths froth and hands grab in Lydia Pettit and Olivia Sterling’s ‘Bitches in Heat’, a raucous, untamed exploration of desire on the margins. Pettit, inspired by Paula Rego’s iconic dog women, crawls across the floor in one sweeping canvas, with sharp, talon-like …