Ira Zev is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, exploring the body beyond civility. With a  background in Sociology and Anthropology, Ira’s work is centred on a basic critique of neo-christian  culture that binds the human experience to the cognitive-analytical, and shames that which is  mammalian; sensitive, emotional, of the body(soma). 

Ira, along with Isla View, are the Co-founders/producers of the EroticART Project; a celebration of  sensuality and art that offers a safe space for raw sexual energy and creativity to collide through  interactive performance installations. Ira was also the Director and Co-founder of the SCRAP Art  Gallery. 

A Faculty Member of The School of Erotic Living since 2017, Ira curates interactive installation  spaces and facilitates workshops that explore a range of methods for play, movement practices,  consent trainings and communication techniques. 

Trained in Massage Therapy, Ira uses a unique blend of Somatic practices as well as Art  disciplines to engage the senses and invite active participation, where engagement affects creative  reality. Trained and practiced in informal and experiential education, Ira blends these techniques  with sculptural, performance and space installation, to induce curiosity and permit tactile  engagement. 

As a crafts-woman, Ira works with wood, leather, copper and rubber. All materials used are  foraged, rescued or recycled. “In a culture of passive consumption the turn over of things see us  with a bursting abundance of waste”. Ira hand crafts her works from the discarded, the forgotten;  that which has lived. Each object has a history and a will of its own to respect in a process of  creation, that is intensely tactile.