A single-authored essay for the book which accompanied the exhibition The Nakeds (Drawing Room, London, 2014; De la Warr Pavilion, 2015), which drew attention to contemporary female artists' transformation of the modernist tradition of explicit figurative drawing, and interest in the pornographic gaze. Including excerpts from interviews with Fiona Banner, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe, Nicola Tyson and Georgina Starr, the essay established new knowledge on their influences, drawing practices, and reparative methods, especially in relation to working with found pornographic material.