Exile 

The subject of exile heavily influences O’Dell’s creative work. She, and her family, including her former husband, the artist Genesis P-Orridge, became self-imposed exiles after Scotland Yard raided their home in 1991. The police raid was based on false allegations after an art film, which featured nudity and members of PTV, directed by the filmmaker Derek Jarman, was re-edited without permission for Dispatches, a British TV documentary, which claimed P-Orridge and members of PTV, were involved in Satanism. At the time of the raid O’Dell, and her family, were traveling in Asia. The artist was volunteering with Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu, and performing in Tokyo, after being hired by the Japanese company, Panasonic, to showcase their new equipment. The family did not return to the UK, as they were warned by their lawyer that they would be harassed by the tabloids, and possibly have their children taken into foster care, because of the allegations. The family moved to California in 1992, and settled in the North Bay. O’Dell and P-Orridge separated in 1992, and O’Dell began her solo career. From 1996-2006, she took a sabbatical from the music industry, although she continued to write fiction and non-fiction. In 1996 she founded her company, Sacred Journeys for Women, and for a decade lead groups to sacred sites in Great Britain, Hawaii and Crete, focusing on women’s spirituality and history. In 2013, O’Dell graduated with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from California Institute of Integral Studies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Consciousness. She has been featured in RE/Search, and published in Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady: Women’s Writings on the Drug Experience. O’Dell was extensively interviewed and featured in 

Conform to Deform: The Weird & Wonderful World of Some Bizarre. She is contributing editor at the arts journal, Mission At Tenth Inter-Arts Journal: Volume 7. And, has contributed pieces to books, art journals and exhibition catalogs, including Alan Oversby Documentary Evidence: The Exhibition Catalog for Mr. Sebastian & the Rise of the UK Piercing Industry.