Episode 72 of the Disability Visibility Project – it’s me!
Also: spoke with Mike Layward at Midlands Arts Papers Launch and for the Research/Curate podcast.
Episode 72 of the Disability Visibility Project – it’s me!
Also: spoke with Mike Layward at Midlands Arts Papers Launch and for the Research/Curate podcast.
This is my project from my residency in Fljotstunga, Iceland. It comprises paper boats, floating in rural Iceland, including in an ice and lava cave. It’s about lots of things – human fragility in the harsh landscape, the sheer aburdity of placing paper in this extreme environment, journeys – literal and emotional, displacement, etc. It…
Another two great shortlistings – The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for the second year running, and the Unlimited Commission for the Northern Festivals Network. Didn’t get ’em, but yay me for getting shortlisted. The ARMB shortlistings book-end my year-long run of being shortlisted for cool shit that I fail to get. Methinks I may be…
Was very honoured to be asked to participate in a panel talk at Sheffield Doc|Fest this year with artist Nwando Ebizie, senior producer Jo Verrent, and Neuroscientist Peter Kok. Here’s a transcript of my short talk before the panel discussion ensued, about outsiderness and social change in the context of my work.
My piece Sheela is featured in the december issue of Average Art magazine!
It was really rewarding to finally see Paradise Lost, my project about town planning and homelessness, come to fruition. It was created to make 50 years of Milton Keynes, and took about 18 months to come together – it was a real labour of love. It’s been showing as part of MK Fringe 2018, on…
My curated event, trying to bring together Art, Disability, and Free-Thinking. I said Things We Are Not Allowed To Say. Speakers: Aaron Williamson, Aidan Moesby, Trish Wheatley, Sonia Bouie, Tom Shakespeare, Chair: Manick Govinda. (image credit: Aidan Moesby – Tom Shakespeare, Anna Berry, Manick Govinda)