Join us at our June virtual artist peer group, an opportunity to hear from two artists about their practice. Our peer groups provide the space for artists to share active ideas, projects and challenges, with peer support from audience participants. Each artist has approximately 35 mins to share works and receive feedback.
This month we have artists Naomi Even-Aberle and Amanda Kelleher sharing works and ideas. Want to share your work at a future group? Fill out our application form.
The event takes place over Zoom with a break in the middle.
Image: Naomi Even-Aberle
About Naomi Even-Aberle
Naomi Even-Aberle engages in research and creates artwork inspired by the martial arts by using martial arts movement, philosophies, and culture to influence their creative process. Their research, writings, and artwork investigate the evolution of martial arts traditions, rituals, perspectives, and environments today. Naomi believes questioning social practices, how one inherits history and culture, and the physical state of the contemporary body/identity is paramount to understanding how the martial arts can be leveraged to prompt both personal and community health.
Battles Cries is a video collage project that documents the often unseen mental health battles that we experience and fight every day. The project will utilize documentary style video submissions from people around the world to link the martial arts concepts of battle ready, bravery, and strength with the raw physical, verbal, and emotional traumas that accompany depression, anxiety, fear, and self-image.
Image: Amanda Kelleher
About Amanda Kelleher
Amanda Kelleher is an award winning theatre maker who makes silly shows about serious stuff.
She is currently preparing for her 4th tour of solo work with her new show, After That, a hopeful storytelling show that explores an imagined future post Climate Change for a families audience. She is also a specialist in running performing arts sessions for young people and adults with mental health issues.
Amanda says: “I am currently setting up a new charity, Good Mood Creative which will improve mental health and well-being through amazing performing arts projects. We will be doing this through delivery of projects and research through interdisciplinary collaboration with academic researchers.
My challenge is connecting successfully with academics in other fields such as mental health or neuroscience to turn these research plans into action.”
Cost
Pay What You Can (suggested donation £5) / Free