Rising Melbourne and Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) have announced that British artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will design the ninth hole artwork for the playable exhibition 'The Art of Mini Golf' when it travels to London this summer. The exhibition, formerly known as 'Swingers', will take over BAC from 17 June to 26 July, featuring nine interactive golf hole artworks by leading women artists including Miranda July, Kaylene Whiskey, Saeborg, Delaine Le Bas, Natasha Tontey, BKTHERULA, Soda Jerk, and Pat Brassington. Brathwaite-Shirley's new commission, 'Enough Is Enough', uses video game language to critique technology's impact on society, addressing issues like surveillance, censorship, and wealth inequality.
The exhibition matters because it reimagines mini golf as a feminist, interactive contemporary art experience, tracing the game's origins to 19th-century Scottish women who were banned from traditional golf courses. By combining play with serious social commentary, it challenges conventional boundaries between art and recreation, while its London venue—Battersea Arts Centre, a historic site of the women's suffrage movement—adds a resonant layer of feminist history. The show also highlights the growing trend of participatory, game-based art exhibitions that engage audiences through movement and play rather than passive viewing.