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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
For my RUPT CADA application, here’s some examples of my work:If you’d like to know more about the linked images / audio, please scroll down and click on the links in title. Living experience: Wake Wash Work: a narrative of (some of) my disabilities: collage including digital drawing, photos, and x-rays. See aggregate image up …
Ive been trying to submit to this competitition They seem to be looking for photographs showing rapid small-scale movement? I want to show much more fundamental movement: that of the Earth rotating round the Sun, and the Moon rotating round the Earth and Sun.Of course it appears as though we on the Earth are stationary – and …
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 …
Theatre Deli are making a tarot deck and asked me to contribute some of my art.I told them I don’t believe in tarot. And they said: we don’t either, we just want to make some art Which of course I’m up for!I chose to do the Moon card. Apparently, the moon “is a card of …
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 …