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Electro Pop sensation 'Quilla Constance' was born on 18/05/1980 in Birmingham under the name Jennifer Allen.

She attended the Jane Rose School of dance in Birmingham from the age of 6-17. At 18 she was spotted by DJ Pete Sheriff cutting some sharp moves on the Dance floor of the Dome 2 Discotheque, Birmingham, and was subsequently hired to form part of the ultra cool 70's disco dance troupe 'The Pants People'. Jennifer Allen performed twice a week under the stage name 'Supreme' amongst characters such as 'John Revolter', 'Tina Burner', 'Baby Pop', 'Baby Sham', and 'Austin Majors'.

Jennifer Allen left the dance troupe in 1998 after being offered a scholarship to study at the prestigious Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she found her niche as a subversive video/performance artist. At the age of 21 she was the youngest ever artist to have her video pieces : 'Jacko' and 'Art Darling' selected to exhibit in the New Contemporaries 2001 exhibition, which opened at Camden Arts Centre - where art collector Anita Zabludowicz spotted her work and purchased it.

In 2001 Jennifer Allen graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in Fine Art, and moved to London after being offered a place on the MA Sculpture course at the Royal College of Art. However, this wasn't really of benefit as she felt misunderstood and later became disillusioned by the commercial nature of art that was being produced and decided to leave.

For the next few years Jennifer Allen worked as a striptease dancer in London at clubs such as 'Secrets', 'La Confidential', 'Majingos' and 'Images' under the stage name 'Quilla Constance'. She later put together an edgy body of performance work informed by her paradoxical experiences as a lap dancer.

In 2004 she was offered a place to study MA Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and she graduated in 2006 with a Distinction in MA Visual Arts. The Art work of Jennifer Allen has since been selected to appear in a string of high profile art exhibitions in London and overseas. Notably a video piece entitled 'Happy Christmas Mom and Dad' which features Allen performing a raunchy striptease as a gift for her parents on Christmas day was recently acquired for the Goldsmiths College, London permanent art collection. The controversial piece has screened at The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, 2007, alongside works by Marilyn Minter, Marcus Harvey and Anton Henning. 2007 Editions of the piece also sold in record numbers at London Art Fair. In 2008 'Happy Christmas Mom and Dad' also screened at '176' gallery as part of a notorious film and video screening guest curated by Jennifer Allen, (which also featured works by Damien Hirst, Angus Fairhurst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Leigh Bowery, Franko B, Peter Land and Carolee Schneemann ).

In April 2008 Jennifer Allen (A.K.A: Quilla Constance) was talent spotted by music producers David Greenfield and Adam Whittaker as she performed a spontaneous dance routine on a dining table at private members club 'Morton's'. Quilla Constance and her crew now work to combine cutting edge Electro Pop music with a Fine art sensibility through a series of pop tracks and videos scheduled for release in 2009 !