Creative and Cultural Access
Enabling cultural spaces and organisations to be accessible, inclusive and diverse with an intersectional focus on neurodiversity, disability and chronic illness.
Consulting and Training
We can all feel out of our depth at times, particularly when we are unsure about things. I work with organisations to ensure the work shown is accessible to a wide an audience as possible. You may be an organisation who is yet to start to their journey to become accessible, inclusive, equitable and diverse, and find the whole thing so scary it has created a lack of inertia. We can go at a pace to suit you. We can devise a method to suit you – to discuss, learn and share before creating and implementing the change required. I have a conversational style of engagement which facilitates and catalyses change, enabling those engaged in the process to feel in control. Most recently I have worked with Abandon Normal Devices AND Festival the British Art Network and MAYK.
Curating and Cultural Access
All my work has access and care at its core. Built in from the start.
As Associate Curator with MIMA as part of the Future Curators Program I gained an institutional context to apply my knowledge and lived experience as a disabled curator in how to work with exhibitions, audiences, staff teams artists and visitors. This has been further developed curating Towards New Worlds and working with, or as a consultant for, organisations such as Norwegian Arts Council, Culture for All Finland, Disbility Arts Online and The British Council.
We can work together to solve your cultural access requirements, be that practically, around exhibitions or more structural organisational issues. Conversations underpin my practice – and in any conversation Listening is just as important as talking. Getting it ‘wrong’ is essential to understanding and doing it differently.
I hate powerpoint and I hate being talked at for 2 hours – that’s not my idea of training or being trained. Professional development doesn’t have to be dull. No one knows all the answers and it’s okay to not know.
Panels
I regularly curate, chair, facilitate and guest on panels to discuss Disability, Curating, Art, Mental Health, Inclusion, Neurodiversity and Climate Change in the broadest contexts with organisations. I have organised online and in-person events for a variety of organisations including British Council, Future Curators Programme, Disability Arts Online in national and international contexts.
Presenting at conferences on themes of cultural access and curating in the visual arts together with issues of climate change and social justice is increasingly part of my practice.