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PROJECTS

The Resting Room

'The Resting Room' and 'Rest Manifesto' 2024

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An immersive Resting installation and public Resting event created as part of my Artist Residency at Create@#8 arts space.

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Social Gardening (The Mind at Rest)

Somerset Film Commission / Artist in Residence 2023.

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As part of my Artist in Residence at Somerset Film I spent the summer capturing local natural landscapes... (more)

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Access Needs Zine

My Access Needs Statement created as a Digital Zine.

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My desire was to create an access needs statement in a unique and creative way. This document is a summary of my access needs presented in a similar format to an easy read document. 

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Stories from the Other Side

Funded by Somerset Skills & Learning Community Project Grant.

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Set in the ominous 400 year old building of Shepton Mallet prison in Somerset, the project explores the techniques used by members of the spiritualist movement as well as current techniques used in parapsychology...(more)

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Artist Prison Residencies

Funded by Open Mental Health Grant, Shepton Town Council & Ganes Trust.

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Beginning in 2021, the Artists Prison Residencies programme is a yearly physical and remote project run by artists and curators Luminara Florescu and Amanda Lynch in partnership with Shepton Mallet prison in Somerset and has been featured on BBC Points West, ITV and BBC online. ...(more)

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NatureSpeaks Podcast

NatureSpeaks is a commissioned work by Somerset Art Works

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​The podcast is a sensory, guided journey to experience and connect with nature to promote a feeling of wellbeing...(more)

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PORTAL

An invitation by artist Fourthlands to contribute to the PORTAL project...(more)

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Freedom Learning Project

Funded by Somerset Art Works Artist Development Bursary 2020...(more)

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If We Were Truly Visible

Sociological Review Foundation

'Image-Maker in Residence' 2024

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As part of my Artist in Residence with the Sociological Review Foundation, I created a film about Hidden Disabilities. 

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Rest as Protest

Funded by Art Council England DYCP Grant.

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A body of work created as a protest movement, using creative activism, gentle protest, and humour to advocate for artists with access needs to support a thriving and sustainable practice.  (more)

 

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OUTSIDE IN

Funded by Open Mental Health Community Grant & Somerset Art Works (SAW) Project Development Bursary.

 

Six artists have taken over C-Wing in Shepton Mallet Prison (decommissioned) to create an exhibition of site responsive, immersive artworks as part of Somerset Art Weeks 2022....(more)

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Contract of Self Care

Funded by a-n Artist Bursary 2021 TIME, SPACE, MONEY

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The Contract of Self Care is a free, downloadable resource to support a best practice model for artists who have a social practice as well as participating members of the public involved in their projects...(more)

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Pathways To Happiness

Funded by Somerset Skills & Learning Community Project Grant. 

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Running over 4 months a programme of online & physical community workshops designed to encourage a sense of wellbeing and lift participants’ spirits through fun, laughter, learning new creative skills and meeting new people...(more)

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Open Circles 

Funded by Somerset Skills & Learning Community Project Grant - 2020.

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Running over 5 months during Lockdown - an online programme of community workshops exploring wellbeing through creativity to support participants' mental health through Lockdown...(more)

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Happenings 

Curator of Happenings virtual exhibition as part of Fringe Bath Arts 2020. The exhibition acted as a forum, a held space, a sacred circle for the human story of connection working with the phase Natural Justice...(more)

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B-Wing

Funded by Lottery funding from Arts Council England.

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Co-curator of B-Wing a multi-disciplinary arts event involving 6 artists & 2 writers making site-responsive works in the unique spaces of B-Wing at Shepton Mallet...(more)   

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