Shortlisted for ‘Inside’ at Quad, Derby

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)

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…

I suddenly realised I hadn’t actually written any of my news in the news section for, er, a very long time! So here’s a quick round-up of the highlights and we’ll all just pretend I’ve been dutifully keeping up all along. The Jerwood Makers show went on tour after the original London opening, to Newlyn…

I was very tickled by John Berger’s observations on the female nude in art: “the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him”. I wanted to create an imagery that made this manifest. This is installed in a dark space using six lights with…

I wrote an editorial for Disability Arts Online about Disability and Identity Politics in the Art World, which you can read here. Pleased to say it also got picked up by Arts Professional as one of their ‘Good Reads’. (There is one comma out of place, and it is driving me nuts! I am regarding…

I was really lucky to be to combine a Jerwood Makers Award with a Develop Your Creative Practise Award, in order to learn a *lot* of new skills. My brain still hurts, but it was so worth it. Mould Making, Slip Casting, Paper Porcelain, Concrete, Jesmonite, Metalwork – phew! It’s opened so many exciting prospects…