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Gutted. Gut instinct. It takes guts.

Join artist Judith Walker in this creative zine making workshop that explores the role that our guts play in our physical and mental health. Judith lives with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The NHS cites inflammatory bowel disease as “a term mainly used to describe 2 conditions: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are long-term conditions that involve inflammation of the gut.” Symptoms can range from pain and cramps to anaemia and there is currently no cure for IBD.

In this workshop Judith will share some of her experiences of living with IBD and and invites you to reflect on your individual relationship to your gut, and to create a zine (short for magazine) that tells a story about your gut experiences. No creative skill or experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

About Judith Walker.

Judith Walker’s art practice has spanned over 40 years. Born in Leeds, where she appears on a public sculpture naming inspirational woman of Leeds, moved to London in 1974 to do a BA in Fine Art at Central St Martins. This was followed by two years at New Mexico State University, doing a master’s degree. Walker has always placed a strong emphasis on the use of colour, whilst also enjoying the tactile qualities of painting, drawing and printing materials to produce abstracted forms. She sometimes uses text to provide glimpses of internal emotions. Interesting developments in her work came when she did a master’s research degree in 2015 at Birkbeck. This led to her producing more multimedia 3D work.

A residency in 2015 at UCL Hospital inspired Walker to use health as subject for her work.

As a response to the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 she did a series of monoprints containing words attempting to reach out to people, during the pandemic.

These works were created for a residency with nobarkingaRT. By posting the monoprints on Instagram, she aimed to create a sense of community within people’s isolation.

Walker’s recent work, inspired by her own health issues, has concentrated on how emotions effect, the health of the human gut.

Medi Culture Festival

This session is a collaboration between Team London Bridge and Arts & Health Hub as part of the Medi -Culture Festival. From Victorian surgery demonstrations at the world’s oldest surviving operating theatre to medical stand-up and anatomical drawing classes, the bi-annual Medi-Culture Festival offers an exciting line-up of live events, talks, walks, workshops, stories and stand-up.