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 restaurant
Photography of my hand-wire sculpture. Selection:
Sep 24: Camden postcards: to be shown Swiss Cottage Library
Collages of my Photography plus found images about air pollution. Selection:
July 24: Head shoulder knees and toes… and eyes and ears and mouth and nose: Second prize in RNIB & King’s College writing competition for blind and partially sighted people.
Jan-Nov 23: The Social Model .. and more. Curator for Theatre Deli Festival held in Sheffield and London including:
– 80 new theatre pieces submitted / supported as applications:
– Deli Social Model Starters Podcasts: with:
— Ashokkumar Mistry on intersectionality
— Jan Grue on stigma, grieving and invisible work
— Jodie Louise Russell on the dichotomy / split between disabled and nondisabled people and drawing parallels between how Disabled and Mad people are treated by society
— Fionnathan, a son and father social enterprise, who reject the cult of individuality and the idea that we must operate solo – knowing that the best way to support one another is in loving interest.
– Bread and Roses audio Provocation:
“We all need bread, but I -and maybe you – also need roses …
– Speak Out – we’re Listening: Deep listening to start off.
See outputs at: https://www.theatredeli.co.uk/Pages/FAQs/Category/social-model-more-responses
Sept 23: Wake Wash Work: life narrative exploring some of my disabilities: eight digital collages including drawing, photos, and x-rays.
This ‘oct-tch’ should be HUGE – I’ve squashed it on the page
Aug 23: The Moon: Tarot card devised by invitation for Theatre Deli: Digital drawing of disabled ‘spinster’ spinning the phases the moon in reverse, also including megalithic Irish lunar calendar.
Jul-Sep 23: The Hottest Day: invited for Resonance radio: Dexter’s One-Minute Wonder: creative writing for audio, plus visuals
“Yesterday was the hottest day in the history of the World.
Today is even Hotter …
Jun 23: London Climate Action Week: Guided Walk across Bloomsbury
Apr-Jun 22: Second Look: Solo exhibition: photo collages of how my eyes see the Moon in multiple moonlets. Linked with relevant Quranic ayat. Includes:
– Where / how does the moon travel over my flat?
– Windows
– My Moonlets
– Measurements of time
– One night with the moon
Oct 21: Rima Rupa Biennale, Djakarta: by invitation – I mixed new elements from my multimorbidity and tree images
The left column picks out some of my multimorbidities; the right underlines the vibrance of my artistic response.
The three rows focus on, sequentially:
– My Special Eyes – look how I see
– My Special Breathing – trees and me breathe the same air. showing my tree-in-bud pneumonia
– My Special Movement Have i moved your heart?
Multimorbidity: self portraits: collages of photos, drawing and found objects:
Nov 22: version X: adds more X-rays, new morbidities (pink), meds, and self-care (blue);
Aug 20: Art from the Heart VOSAP finalist.
These female figures are both self portraits, showing how vulnerable I can be.
I am more than a set of diagnoses: I am a human being and a woman.
Both of these are a collage of photographs of me and found objects, plus digital drawing.
Pillars and Mirrors: my urban tree concept: photos plus digital drawing
May 21 onwards: commissioned by Royal College of Arts curation students for their In the Meantime.
Selection: Trees dancing over the wood wide web: digital drawing on photo:
Feb 22: Ghost trees:
Headlined the Losing Track exhibition, responding to HS2 tree massacres outside Euston station
Sep 20: Seeing stars: Invited to deliver Artist talk at Desert Festival, Arrente country (Alice Springs, Australia).
I’ve been lucky enough to be in places where the Milky Way feels so close that you might as well be swimming in it – and I have had a WowWowWow relationship with Dark Night
So I was very excited to be part of the Expedition Society/Lumen call.
Jul 20: Third Wave: video at https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCL_B2HJpkc/?hl=en made from my creative writing, photos of my Safe as Houses installation, found images / footage, digital drawing.
Special award for COVID-19 Critique from Bertha Dochouse.
Runner up for the 3rd edition of their Creative Response to Self-Isolation competition.
Mar-Jul 20: Safe as Houses: Installation through my front room whilst shielding from the early waves of Covid: using leftover packaging and more, including William’s coffin and:
– Dead bodies – spewing out of the back of my TV;
– Looking out of the world – at the bulging paper lemons at the end of a perspective tunnel;
– How Safe? – for my two women (both aspects of me): vulnerable naked, or imprisoned;
– Running, running, running!
Related:
May 20: Audio: I was invited to make a related short radio piece during the first wave. My piece, Malfunction, is at 23 minutes in https://hellogoodbyeshow.com/2020/05/26/playlist-one-minute-wonders-2020/
Sep-Oct 20: Exhibited virtually in Life Interrupted: SEASbrighton; with images on the railings of the Peoples Palace, Mile End.
July 21: Audio/radio: My 2021 One minute wonder is called I’m in a cage:
Oct 21: Photo barter with Hong Kong
Free-swimming free-weaving: salvage weave, including metal mountain (top left):
May 21: Exhibited by Royal College of Arts curation students in In the meantime;
Mar 22: pop-up at the British Museum. Part of Bangladesh 50.
Here’s some details of how I made the weave:
Deathbed Skiing : A life-changing, death-changing experience. Deathbed Skiing is a new and different way to make your exit: starting on the side of a mountain, and ending in a Luscious Fruiting Forest of Dreams:
– Here’s some of the words for the performance;
And here’s how it all started – with so many thanks for Prof Jewyo Rhii.
Standing talking about my very special dad in my digital forest, as the trees fruited was the most Wonderful experience! Thanks for all the support, Wandsworth Fringe!
