Artists
Abi Palmer
She/her
www.abipalmer.com , @abipalmer_bot
Abi Palmer is a writer, artist and filmmaker. Her work often uses multisensory interaction and play to explore themes of disability, access intimacy and queer culture.
Artworks include Crip Casino - an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry and institutionalised spaces - has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Somerset House and Wellcome Collection. Her debut book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins, 2020) is a fragmented memoir, jumping between luxury thermal pool, and blue inflatable bathtub. It was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. In 2020 she was awarded an Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ Grant to address the current pandemic. She is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s ‘Awards for Artists’ 2021.
Mary Slattery
She/her/they/them
adventuresinrest@gmail.com
instagram.com/invalid__art
instagram.com/disabledmeals
Instagram.com/disabledhacks
Mary Slattery is a writer, artist, advocate, sewist, & organiser; radical politics and disability justice are essential components of her practice. You can find some of her work in the ongoing creative programme Soft Sanctuary, where her work explores creative tool sharing of day-to-day mental health management. You can also find her work featured on her instagram account @invalid_art, in which she interrogates core aspects of her creative practice as a disabled artist whilst utilising her extensive audience base. She is also the creator of @invalid_art @disabledmeals @disabledhacks .
Raisa Kabir
She/her
Showing at : Chesterfield Library
Raisa Kabir is an interdisciplinary artist and weaver based in London. Kabir utilises woven text/textiles, sound, video and performance in her work to materialise concepts concerning the cultural politics of cloth, labour and embodied geographies. Her (un)weaving performances comment on power, production, disability and the queer brown body as a living archive of collective trauma.
She has exhibited work internationally at The Whitworth, The Tetley, Raven Row, Textile Arts Center NYC, The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Glasgow International and the Ford Foundation Gallery NYC. She was artist in residence for the British Textile Biennial 2019, and an awarded recipient of the Cove Park Craft and Design residency programme 2019.
Kabir has shared her decolonial textile history research, and lectured at Tate Modern, ICA London, the London College of Fashion, The Courtauld Institute, Royal College of Art, Manchester School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, CSM, and the V&A.
Her research into non mechanical looms, bodies and machines, has taken her to Mexico and Bangladesh.
Aminder Virdee
She/Her
www.aminder-virdee.com
Showing at : Long Eaton Library
Aminder Virdee is a British South Asian artist, writer, activist, justice arts facilitator, access consultant with over twelve years’ experience, and Trustee at UK’s leading disability-led live music accessibility organisation Attitude is Everything. She is the founder and president of Disabled Intersectional Voices in the Arts (DIVA), a disability-focused network (currently at UAL) generating sites of creative resistance against institutional and educational intersectional ableism. She is also co-founder of Cripjoy, a transnational and majority BIPOC community of practice re-worlding mental health through an intersectional, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist, lens. Aminder is co-writer, director’s attachment, and intersectional disability inclusion and access consultant for short film Crutches (2021) funded by BFI and BBC, with multi award-winning director Nathan Morris, and executive producers 104 Films.
As an artist, Aminder’s practice is navigated through an intersectional and auto-ethnographic lens; subverting and transforming spaces, routines, rituals, images, sounds, and memories, into political sites of radical agency. This traverses multiple disciplines such as social justice; crip technoscience; disability and race; physics; technology; and philosophy. Aminder works across artforms as a world remaking and dismantling tool; endlessly adapting to a world built without intersectional disability and neurodivergence (including Aminder’s race, gender, class, sexuality and religion) in mind. Artforms include digital, AI, and generative art; installations; device-hacking and physical computing; audio-visual works; interactive works; and performance. She often use participatory systems to amplify unheard voices, and to connect underrepresented lived experience to the public Sphere.
Aminder has been commissioned, exhibited, and performed across the UK, including the National Gallery, Ars Electronica, National Theatre of Scotland, Birds of Paradise Theatre, Lyric Theatre, TATE Exchange (Tate Modern), Bonington Gallery, Waterman’s Art Centre, European Film Festival (Palic), Bow Arts Nunnery Gallery, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021, GlitchRealm: Remote Access, and recently Aminder exhibited, and was one of three key speakers, for Art in Flux’s ‘Reclaimed’ exhibit at the National Gallery. Here, Aminder was highlighted as “one of the most underrepresented radical artists of our time.”
Laura Daisy Cowley
She/her
Showing at : Dronfield Library
Laura Cowley is an artist-researcher from London. Her practice explores paradigms of disability, surface, collectivity and humour.
She graduated with an MA in Painting with distinction from The Royal College of Art (2021), and from Middlesex University with a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art (2018). She has exhibited in London and New York. Her research and practice has been supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust and Arts Council England.
Kiara Mohamed Amin & Dahab Abdullahi
Both artists pronouns: he/him
https://www.kiaramohamed.com/
Showing at : Double sided posters distributed across all Derbyshire Libraries & downloadable PDF version available across all libraries in England.
Dahab Abdullahi
Dahan Abdullahi is a Somali multi disciplinary artist and an RN. He creates work that explores identity and the intersections his identity lives at.
Liverpool based Kiara Mohamed Amin is a trans, Somali multidisciplinary artist based in Toxteth, Liverpool. His work focuses on identity, social issues and the role art plays in our lives in addressing these issues. He uses different mediums to explore inter-generational trauma and the community he lives in. His work has been screened at Tate Liverpool and the British Museum with most recent solo exhibition at FACT.