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I am a photographer, writer and radio show host whose photography includes portraiture and still life. The aim of my work is to be clear, compassionate and honest. I am also interested in opening new dialogues about mental health and chronic invisible illness, living with both conditions myself. Listen to my podcast ‘The Two of Us’ (originally aired on Reel Rebels Radio) where I talk to writers and artists about their work and how it relates to mental health and emotional well-being.
I have been Artist-in-Residence at Culpeper Community Garden, Islington and my work has been exhibited at Ovalhouse, The Albany, Lewisham Art House, The Nunnery Gallery (as part of the Shape Open 2013), The Pie Factory, Margate and Free Space Project, Kentish Town.
Natanya is a creative practitioner interested in collective and intuitive making. Natanya’s approach is hands on, and is concerned with how we can feel more in touch with our everyday environments. Tactile workshops make up a large part of her artistic practice, often involving collective weaving processes to fabricate community closeness. Natanya enjoys re-purposing throwaway materials; polystyrene chip boxes have been transformed into looms, and disused ethernet cables have become weaving materials to re-connect participants with their environment. In 2016, Natanya initiated the first series of creative workshops to be hosted at the Royal National Institute of Blind People, and continues to manage an arts programme at RNIB. Natanya is a part-time Development officer for Voluntary Arts, and also a co-director of F.A.T. Studio.
I am a multidisciplinary artist making art about science; genetics and evolution in particular.
I work with digital and interactive elements, and with physical sculpture using a wide range of materials.
Collaboration is a core part of my artistic practice. I have worked with scientists from UCL, KCL, UEA and the Crick, creating artworks and workshops about science. I have exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Tate Exchange, the Grant Museum of Zoology, and the Science Museum.
I am interested in the modes of interaction between genetics and evolution and the artwork, and how accurately such artworks present their scientific concepts.
I am motivated by society’s apparent disconnection from both art and science as key human activities. Embodied cognition and aesthetic experience can help to connect the scientific concepts with the general public. Immersive artistic experiences can create non-didactic embodied ways to explore science through our senses.
Currently, I am collaborating with Dr Chawner at University of Cardiff and Ben Murray (as Phenotypica) in a Wellcome Trust funded public engagement project about mental health and genetics. We will explore the complex issues around genetic conditions and mental health through workshops with patients, families and clinicians, that will result in an exhibition of individual experiences. The project will be delivered online first, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and physically at a later date.
Originally graduating in Fine Arts (2007), I completed the Masters in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins (2017), year in which I transitioned my artistic practice to making art about genetics and evolution.
I have been exhibiting internationally since 2007 and I combine my artistic practice with the curation of exhibitions and workshops, which I consider necessary for social engagement within my artistic practice.
Noemi is a Set and Costume Designer for Film and Theatre and a Visual Artist based in London, working internationally.
I am a social geographer and museum studies scholar and my research interests draw together human geography, museums and heritage studies, the medical humanities.
My research focuses on museum work and care, as ethics and practice. Within this I have a particular interest in the role of museums as spaces of social care and in understanding the \'social work\' of culture professionals. A related aspect of this work explores the links between cultural and museum participation and health, well-being and recovery.