interdisciplinary artist and creative producer
A Map… An Invitation… A joyful micro-pilgrimage. A mass dance meditation for every body. A playful, participatory invitation to think about and be with the beautiful moors around Bradford, with movement, imagination, and creativity in mind. Inspired by Kate Bush and Emily Brontë’s creative works, this project is available to explore at your own pace, […]
What is Neurodivergent Space? Three artists present text, audio, film, and photography from their creative practice, to articulate and share their experiences of Neurodivergent Space, wordlessness and situational mutism. Developed across long form time – almost two years, which I think would constitute crip time (see ‘What is “crip time”‘ below), a term I am […]
Playfully unmasking neurodivergent identity through collage and photography. In 2023 when I was recovering from my second episode of Long Covid, in the midst of a prolonged house move and whilst I had little use of my right arm due to a couple of falls where I managed a complete tear of my shoulder cuff […]
Maybe we’re all making artworks while we’re not looking? What I thought was lockdown ennui turned out to be Long Covid, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Endometriosis. All in a context of Autism. Frustrated that I wasn’t ‘making loads of stuff’ with ‘all this time’ that was available, I started to be curious about what I […]
A short animation about child sexual exploitation, co-produced with young people affected by CSE. Designed as a resource to support other young people. The animation and a series of accompanying booklets were developed in partnership with Dr Kate Brown, a leading academic at University of York. We worked with young people who were themselves progressing […]
A multi-media exploration of liminality along the Morecambe Bay coastline. For some time I have been fascinated by ‘liminality’ – a term derived from the Latin ‘limen’ meaning ‘threshold.’ In particular, I have been spellbound by the liminality of Morecambe Bay’s coastline; a zone in between sea and land that is constantly changing due to […]
Working with young people who have a neurodisability to interrogate research into neurodisability and devise fun ways of communicating their experience. The Making of AniMates – Participating in Leisure from AniMates on Vimeo. AniMates is an ongoing collaboration between Newcastle University researcher Jen McAnuff, the National Institute for Health Research and young people with neurodisability. […]
Research and development project with Ascendance dance company, devising a series of 360 VR films. Dancing with Parkinson’s (currently in development) will be a 360 dance film viewed using Virtual Reality headsets, produced with people who have Parkinson’s disease, their partners and carers. I am working with Ascendance Dance; a dance company that runs dance […]
Large scale photo collage project, produced with older people in Bradford for Hockney’s 80th birthday celebrations. To mark Bradford born artist David Hockney’s 80th birthday and the opening of a new dedicated gallery of his work at Cartwright Hall in Bradford, I was commissioned to work with a group of older people to make a […]
Installation imagining the perfect Scarborough of the future, produced with young people from the town. “If you could design the perfect Scarborough of the future, what would it be like to live there?” Using this question as a prompt I worked with young people from the Sidewalk Project youth group and researchers from Social Policy […]
Co-curation and commission to make new work in response to the work of Emily Bronte for the bicentenary celebrations of her birth in Bradford. Of Real Worlds documentation of space from Lucy Barker on Vimeo. To celebrate the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth I co-curated an exhibition; created a video installation and ran a series […]
Commission working with young people from Maribor, Slovenia to create a light installation proclaiming and celebrating human potential. I was commissioned to collaborate with disadvantaged young people from Maribor, Slovenia to create a light installation for Maribor’s Winter Festival of Light. The installation was developed through a series of workshops with the young people. I […]