The THIRD WAVE: references

This 6 minute film explores inequalities in the Covid-19 pandemic – including my own shielding, BAME inequalities, and the slaughter in care homes. I’ve included some archive from the 1918 pandemic, created some specific new art, and included a few elements from the archive I have created of my own shielding. There’s more of the …

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Magnificent Multimorbidity

Magnificent Multimorbidity shows two female figures on a mustard yellow ground.These naked figures show my multiple morbidities.  Their nakedness illustrates how vulnerable I can be with my multimorbidity. And also shows that I am more than a set of diagnoses: I am a human being and a woman. Both of the figures are a collage …

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Tap dancing with your dentist?

Musicality at the dentist? Bet you weren’t expecting that! But at the Heads Up exhibition opening tonight, thats exactly what I saw!Dr Christina Lovey – the tap dance adviser / choreographer for my climate justice pantomime – is the artist. She and Dr Sasha Scambler identified key themes and rhythmic patterns in the speech of …

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The Blind Cloning the Blind

This is my spoof of The Blind leading the Blind by Breughel (1584). It’s a visual joke I submitted to Insight: an exhibition showing the work of visually impaired artists, organised by some MA Curation students at Leeds Art University.  Breughel’s painting ostensibly responds to the Matthew 5:14 parable. It has been described as showing …

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The Giant Green Canary: R&D

This proposal is for R&D to develop my climate justice pantomime for full performance in 2020. It: Builds on my previous digital / video / multimedia work; Challenges silos within disability art by involving only/both visually and hearing impaired performers; Makes access part of the art by using a range of ‘languages’ including BSL, audio …

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R&D for Pantomime melodrama

We need to do some R&D – its going to be challenging to be so multi-lingual in rehearsal and performance. Here is a draft about the proposed R&D: Proposed R&D We’re interested in taking a different approach to ‘impairment’, as well as ensuring a wide audience has access to our theatre: We hypothesise that traditional …

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More about my pantomime R&D

More about your project  The proposed R&D supports development of my climate justice panto for adults. I’m involving both/only VI and D/deaf performers, as a way of challenging silos within disability art I want to make the access part of the art, using a range of ‘languages’ including BSL, audio narration, ‘songs with out words’, …

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R&D for climate crisis pantomime melodrama: summary

This proposed R&D is to develop my climate justice pantomime for full performance later in 2020. It: Challenges silos within disability art by involving both visually and hearing impaired performers; Makes access part of the art by using a range of ‘languages’ including BSL, audio narration, ‘call and response’ and creative captioning; Reaches out to …

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Life drawing at the Wallace

Let me tell you straight away that I don’t know ANYTHING about life drawing! But of course thats not stopping me trying! After all, the first time ANYONE tries to walk, they fall over and don’t look exactly expert. Slowly, slowly most of us improve at walking.And I’m hoping that if I get the chance …

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Deathbed Skiing at WAF10

Starting on the side of a mountain and ending in a Luscious Fruiting Forest of Dreams.Multimedia theatre event as part of Wandsworth Art Fringe 2019 at Tara Arts on 10 May 2019 Videos are at http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF and YYY. 1: at 2.23 in http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF 2 at 3.30 in http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF 3 starts at 4.28 to 5.36 in …

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