The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and King’s College London set up a writing competition for creative writers who are blind or partially sighted.Applicants were encouraged to write multisensory poetry or prose about how they appreciate art, a museum visit, or a household object that has inspired them. I won the second prize! …
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 …
This is a five by five grid of images of eyes: mostly open, but some blinking shut. In the eye’s ‘pupils’ you can see some of the many eye diagnoses I have – as well as some of the splendid things I’ve seen. Before my eyes changed, that is I’m visually impaired – I can’t …
Roberto Rusconi from Intrasonus asked me to write a about the sound of fear. Here’s my submission: It’s just after New Year.Yorkshire is blanketed in snowSmothered in silence.Outside, there’s the squeak creak squeak creak of walking on fresh snow. As we get out onto the moors, the silence somehow gets louder, wider, huge-er. In between …