Click links to get the actual words. Audio being added as I canMany of my more visual art pieces include my words – but if its mainly visual, it’s included in the art section Head, shoulders, knees and toes … and eyes and ears and mouth and noseSecond PRIZE winner for KCL/RNIB creative writing competition …
Shape Open 2023 has the theme Open All Hours and this above is my submission.For several decades I’ve been Open All Hours to a torrent of diagnoses and disabilities. Even with the Social Model, each new diagnosis needs time, both practically and emotionally. Time for the worry that inevitably comes alongside an uncertain future with degenerative diseases. Time …
My role is much more listening / influencing than ‘doing specific things’. But here are some of my specific festival outputs. After my comments initiated the festival, my first input as a curator was to say: We must start as we mean to go along – by listening to and hearing the diverse voices of …
I won a special award for COVID-19 Critique from Bertha Dochouse. And was Runner up for the 3rd edition of their Creative Response to Self-Isolation competition: New Reveries: The Power of Archive Now. This was about delving into the archive. Third Wave includes some archive from the 1918 pandemic – and also shows some of …
I learnt loads at a great in-depth exploration about Lee Bul at the Hayward! Her work has a strong sense of autobiography. Plexus starts out by looking like a split torso, but the wires and sequins are about the home-working that Lee Bul’s mother had to do. A political dissident, she couldn’t get easier factory …
As part of Heads Up, this making workshop explored haptic perception – the process of recognising objects by way of touch and movement. The aim was to guide participants in translating objects into drawings.We started by drawing objects we were given in bags – with NO PEEKING! Here’s my first two objects: Then we tried …
Second prize winner for KCL/RNIB creative writing competition It’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.Crammed full with people.Crammed overfull with too much art to take in.Our Audio Description (AD) guide has a voice which means that – even in the cacophony of the crowd – if I’ve stayed behind extra-looking at something superspecial, I can …
Selected PUBLICATIONS include: They even drew me a specific cartoon (involving a meteorite!). Rapid response to BMJ article. BMJ 2015;350:h2640 http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2640/rr-3 Letter published in The Times, 6 April 2015. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4402631.ece A short story for Dying Matters. Highly Commended. http://www.dyingmatters.org/page/never-again-caroline-mawer Rapid response to BMJ editorial. BMJ 2014; 349:g4349 http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4349/rr/759849 Editors Choice. BMJ 2014; 348:g4180 http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g4180/rr/759532 Editors Choice. Mawer C …
Part of Camden’s Adult community learning included a callout to create postcards.Im a climate activist – with a Breathe London monitor, and working with Global Action plan. So , obviously, I wanted to do something on local air pollution. I think www.addresspollution.org produces great graphics.So I’ve linked my photos with the relevant postcode data. I …
For my Dadafest40 application, here’s some examples from my portfolio:please click on the links, if you’d like to know more about the specific visuals / audio. Oct 24: Wired Hands: to be shown Royal Academy restaurantPhotography of my hand-wire sculpture. Selection: Sep 24: Camden postcards: to be shown Swiss Cottage Library Collages of my Photography plus …
David Oliver wrote an article on this in the BMJ(1). But he didnt mention clean air. I sent a rapid response saying …Surely we also need a Clean Air Election.Everyone took notice when 230,000 people died from Covid in the UK in the last four years. There was lots of money. Lots of ideas. Incidentally, also …
We all need clean air – so we need a clean air election. Labour is ahead in the polls – which gives them space to do the Right Thing(s). Sadiq Khan’s election victory proved that sticking to principles can work – and that its not just Sadiq that’s not wedded to motonormativity. 1. So lets campaign! For much …
I love my balcony! Its great being out there with plant- and insect-life. Here’s what full sun looks like: Now im increasingly disabled, i struggle to walk out into my little heaven.To do the proper watering , primping and cooing. With recent hospital admissions, and the changeable winter spring, ive very sadly lost some plantsIm …