I am delighted to be part of the exhibition Where There’s Space to Grow curated by Celebrate Different Collective, a group of young people living in Sunderland, which creatively reflects on the industrial decline of the 1980s in North East England, while looking ahead to a shared progressive future.
Arts Council Collection artworks, including my work Daisy Chain (2002), sit alongside new works created by local Sunderland residents.
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Breathing Together
Breathing Together is a limited-edition print based on a drawing of my experience of free online classes for people with Long COVID. The classes, held by The Yoga for Life Project, have been running since April 2020. Since then the project has championed support for hundreds of people with Long COVID, helping with wellbeing and rehabilitation through breathing, restful yoga and guided conversation.
Money raised from this print will help The Yoga for Life Project continue to provide this invaluable support.
The print is being sold through the artist support pledge, a generous culture and dynamic economy in support of artists and makers.
Price £200 plus £10 P&P (unframed, UK only). Contact me for more information and overseas postage & packing costs .
Print Fine Art print \ Paper Awagami Bamboo, 170gsm \ Edition 15 \ signed \ Dimensions 420mm (w) x 297mm (h)
Modern Conversations, Tate St Ives
My doubled-sided Volcano Lady print, made in 2007 for the Matt’s Gallery fundraiser E3 4RR, is currently on show in the room Vision and Visionary: Partou Zia in Modern Conversations at Tate St Ives.
The Volcano Lady was a 2004 performance in a costume designed to invert; standing upright the top of the garment represents superheated gas and ash billowing from the cone of a volcano. As I do a headstand, I reveal red tights and flamed underskirts that resemble lava flow.
Art for Life: An exhibition made with key workers
Pillows, 2020
Firstsite Gallery, Colchester. Monday 17 May - Sunday 5 September 2021. An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme Exhibition
I am incredibly pleased to have work in Art for Life, an exhibition exploring different perspectives of the pandemic. My contributions include inks of lungs and pillows, made after falling ill with Covid-19 in March 2020, an extract from a piece of writing also titled Pillows and Keeping Track… expressive daily records of symptoms which I hope will contribute to an understanding of the heterogeneous and disabling effects of Long Covid.
From the Firstsite Gallery website:
Discover different perspectives of the pandemic and reflect on your own in this poignant exhibition. Feel connected through art, creativity and shared experiences.
‘Art for Life’ is the fascinating result of a number of workshops with artists and people in frontline roles in the health and care sectors which examined their experiences of the pandemic and the subsequent effects on their lives.
The exhibition provides a creative record of this significant moment in our collective history, featuring paintings, photography and sculpture which reflect life under lockdown and the experiences which connected us all – from the importance of family and missing human touch, to the significance of nature and longing for a haircut.
‘Art for Life’ features specially-selected loans from the Arts Council Collection –with whom Firstsite is a National Partner 2019-22 – and a variety of pieces made by the key workers who took part in the workshops alongside NHS art psychotherapists, who generously gave up their time to support the sessions. Also on display are contributions from artists affected by the COVID-19 virus.
The exhibition offers a chance to explore how other people dealt with this life-changing event, evaluate our own feelings, and find connections and inspiration to help us as we continue to navigate both the personal and community-wide effects of COVID-19.