Cheryl Donegan is best known for her performance and video works that deal primarily with ideas of sex, gender, and the ways in which the female body is represented both in art and more broadly across popular culture. During the 1990s, Donegan’s practice was influenced by of a range of movements that brought into question aspects of feminism, identity politics and politically engaged art—the underground feminist hardcore punk movement Riot Girl, and the grunge, slacker, and DIY cultures among them. Donegan often uses her body as an apparatus for mark making, incorporating performative actions that are captured by the camera and that result in or relate to process paintings and drawings. Combining these bodily gestures with found consumer objects and imagery, her works interrogate the conventions of different forms of popular culture such as music videos and advertising, while at the same time considering the politics of self-representation. Most recently, she has continued her exploration of the mediated image, mark marking and its relationship to the body through a series of paintings and sculptures, as well as videos distributed on social media.