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 …
I want to be clear that my disabilities – like many other people’s – are not static. And that I’m much more than my diagnoses.See what I can and have created!Look at what else I am!But I also want to be clear about the uncertainties I live with. Is this me? This image started as …
Usually, hands shape media into a sculpture.But when Blindaid lead, Scott gave me some metal to make a sculpture from, I thought I’d instead use the medium to shape my hand into a sculpture. Blindaid has links with the manager of the Cafe at the Royal Academy. They want some Blindaid art up on their …
My photos are primarily about what I saw FROM my windows. So it seems appropriate to display examples of my ‘moonlets’ IN the windows of of the Dialogue Hub Cafe. Here above are some onsite photos (on a very sunny day so with lots of reflections – apologies!): While I sketched the moon, I saw …
The Lunar Calendar determines – and remembers – so much for Muslims. All the key historic events during the earliest years of Islam. The Hajj. And, of course, Ramadan.I installed these images the day before Ramadan 2022 started. So check this out for an appropriate starter image: Whoever sights (the new moon) Let him fast …
The gorgeous Joy in Weaving wanted my Freeswimming Freeweaving weave to be included in an exhibition she was organising in … the British Museum. So my work has been in the British Museum!! Temporarily anyway. As my friends said: kind of unusual to have something Made in Britain, and not looted from somewhere!
My wonderful guitar teacher, Andrew Treen, is in a great band – Someone Else Ahead. He asked me to make a CD cover for one of their releases: Will They or Wont They: So I read the lyrics – and created this image above.Its my Music Industry debut!
– The Deathbed skiing video I submitted in my application, followed a pilot in The Showroom, with the movement there shown in some 2D digital art : https://carolinemawer.com/deathbed-skiing/ – Luscious Fruiting Forest of Dreams: the video here shows a later part of my Tara Arts performance: – with the pilot shown in 2D here: https://carolinemawer.com/4-ultimate-living/ …
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 …
My cv is at: https://carolinemawer.com/about-caroline/ My Seeing Stars illustrated webinar is from 23.40 here below: Some of my material culture work from Iran is at: https://carolinemawer.com/my-iran-archive/ I showed a few of my multi-moon drafts up above. I only see one at a time – looking out of my windows, which you can see up above. …