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 …
November 2023 [heres the text of my opening presentation -images to be added soon] Welcome welcome!thank you for coming along to the social model and more festival with theatre deli Im caroline mawerthe festival curatorim a skinny white woman, age 60, with short brown hair and big purple glasses. im she/ her. In this first, opening …
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 …
Here are brief details of most of my Covid-era pieces – so far:Starting from the first lockdown, being forcibly separated from my previous ‘normal’ helped (actually forced!) me to work with a range of new-to-me media – including installation, (prize-winning) film, mixed photo-drawing, and weaving. I’ve used these to reflect on my ever-changing lived experience in the …
This self-portrait is a patients-eye view of Multimorbidity.It’s a montage of my photos of me plus (some of) my x-rays. With ageing populations worldwide, and the epidemiological transition towards long term conditions, multimorbidity is a huge and increasing problem. Long Covid is adding to this. Although multiple diagnoses have multiplicative rather than simply additive effects, …
I used to walk 10,000 steps a day. Not trying. Just getting on with my London life. If I was actually ‘going out for a walk’, I knew I’d only really properly be ‘warmed up’ after 10 kilometres.And if ever I was at all out of sorts, I always knew that after 10 days walking, I’d be …
I used to walk 10,000 steps a day. Not trying. Just getting on with my London life. If I was actually ‘going out for a walk’, I knew I’d only really properly be ‘warmed up’ after 10 kilometres.And if ever I was at all out of sorts, I always knew that after 10 days walking, I’d …
Thats the headline of a call out for a great European opportunity .But how can ‘not being erased’ happen?I’ve been thinking about this as part of my bid.Here are some of the methodologies I’ve been considering: Crip theory: This centres disabled experiences, embodiments and movements – rather than the able-bodied normative – as summarised here: …
Recently, I’ve been feeling ridiculously disabled. So when I got an invitation from the lovely Andrew Bolton to submit some disability art to a festival in Jakarta, I thought I’d make some ridiculous disability art. And here it is up at the very top. It’s 1 m x 1.5 metres: a mix of my digital …