This is our At The Table Exhibition Programme. There are fourteen pieces of work shared, made possible by 17 artists and several contributors. We've outlined each person's contribution to the exhibition below. Please regard each one as a journey through the work of each artist, with little signposts to help you along the way. You can return back to this page from everywhere in the exhibition by clicking the button at the bottom of every page which says 'Return to the Exhibition Programme'.
Bex Bowsher
The Blank Page - A Creative Notebook The Blank Page explores what an artist wants from a new project. Exploring both my art and my social justice, I have been able to revive a neglected devising side of my theatre practice. The seeds of this creative notebook will allow me to create work with other queer crips about what it is to dream. Age Guidelines: 16+ Content Awareness: |
Sarah Crutwell
F*ckable Podcast Joined by guests theatre maker Bex Bowsher and broadcaster Mik Scarlet, Sarah Crutwell speaks to disabled people about sex in a podcast full of giggles, intimate anecdotes, frank discussions, and lashings of sexual empowerment. Age Guidelines: 18+ Content Awareness: Sexually explicit and potentially triggering language |
gobscure
night gale nightingales move across europe, africa and asia to sing hard-won songs from woodlands. woodlands are now managed. narratives are f*cked and new songs are needed. images and soundscape from the highly acclaimed gobscure. Age Guidelines: 18+ Content Awareness: Strong language, psychiatric abuse, sexual harrassment |
Pauline Heath
Get Shirty Get Shirty is a protest art project which is wearable! It’s art and slogans of protest on tee shirts. This is a participatory commission and Pauline has invited other people to either suggest tee shirts that she will work on or to create tee shirt art themselves. Age Guidelines: 18+ Content Awareness: Strong language, swearing hand gesture, image of blood |
Steph Robson, aka Hello Little Lady
A Little Tension A Little Tension contains acutely observed visual work, and an essay and a podcast. The work explores the tensions disabled people experience in everyday society, the barriers in the systems we encounter and the disproportionate intrusions we have into our lives. Age Guidelines: 14+ Content Awareness: Terms used against disabled people and people with dwarfism, disability discrimination and PIP claims. |
Simon McKeown
60,000 Characters Exploring notions of state 'care' during covid, and researching a large scale installation piece, to share 3-D print sculptures of government food parcels, along with recordings of messages from Government to people like me. A commemoration to the 60,000 lost. Age Guidelines: N/A Content Awareness: Disability Discrmination, food parcels and poverty, covid deaths |
Colly Metcalfe
4 Senses Colly Metcalfe is a spoken word artist, poet and actor. As a Deaf artist finding new ways to share her voice, Colly has been researching and will share a piece of visual poetry using a visual vernacular performance style drawn from British Sign Language Age Guidelines: 8+ Content Awareness: N/A |
Paul Miller
The Pumpkin King Paul Miller is an award winning director, writer, visual artist, film and animation creator. The Pumpkin King has been created from this seed commission and is part of a wider series of Monster Chronicles. Paul aims to ensure Deaf characters and stories involving Deaf people are created and available for Deaf children. Age Guidelines: 8+ Content Awareness: a scary modern day fairytale for children |
Aidan Moesby
Words from the Margin Words from the Margin is a series of projections looking into the limitations placed on disabled people and ommissions which make them invisible. Two single images look at a lack of agency and a sequence of ten images explore the intersection of Climate Change and Disability. Age Guidelines: 14+ Content Awareness: Disability discrimination and exclusion |
Karen Sheader
Getting Closer To Home Singer-songwriter and filmmaker Karen Sheader ventures into new forms to explore old territory as she begins an autobiographical poem. This poem is a way of feeling her way into her memories of significant events in her life. Age Guidelines: 16+ Content Awareness: Reference sexual violence and disability discrimination |