Spending a Penny is a project that explores stories about public toilets in London. Personal experience from being new to the city of London and having difficulty in finding a toilet prompted research into the subject. The term ‘urinary leash’ which alludes to women being bound by the availability or lack of toilets to use in a public space fuelled the progress of the project. Academics Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner’s call for papers that resulted in the publication of the book 'Ladies and Gents' provided valuable theories and insights about the smallest room in any building.

The project takes the form of ‘The Princess and the Pee and other Not-So-Fair Tales’, a book which is a collection of retellings and critical commentary about stories, news, facts and trivia about the toilets in London. ‘Mirror-Mirror’ a publicly staged performance-cum-interaction which serves as the intervention element of the project was performed at the heart of the London in Camden. The event invited the audience to witness readings of chapters from the written book at two major geographic locations which revealed deeply-rooted, socially-concerning facts and long forgotten scatological tales.