Pauline Heath

Get Shirty

About Get Shirty
Pauline Heath is a writer, actor, visual artist and co-creator. She believes in work which is accessible and available to everyone. 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. The result in an online exhibition of the t-shirts created to date, and in the longer term Pauline will be looking into the possibilities of a real world exhibition.

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Exhibition Information
The exhibition is a 21 image slide show with image descriptions. You can click on the link below and see all the tee shirt designs. Each image has its own caption but there is also a transcript of image descriptions below if that is more accessible. You can press play in the top left hand corner of the image to watch a slide show moving through each slide for 9 seconds each. Or, you can manually control the speed at which you watch by using the arrows in the top right corner of the image.

Content Awareness
Contains strong language, swearing hand gesture imagery, and an image of blood

 
Get Shirty Tee Shirt Design Descriptions

1. Reduced to Clear by Pauline Heath. Red and white rectangle with the text of the title on a label on the tee shirt.
2. Disconsortia At The Table by Vici Wreford-Sinnott. The Disconsortia logo is bold black lettering on bright blue. The words At The Table relate to the exhibition and under the wording is an image of a meeting table and chairs with the word ‘Change’ in letters standing on the table.
3. 100% Criptastic suggested by Lisette Auton. The title is written seven times in each colour of the rainbow, under which is a rainbow coloured heart made up of jigsaw pieces. Collaboration between Lisette Auton, Pauline Heath and Vici Wreford-Sinnott.
4. Fisheye by Black Robin. A large blue iris close up of an eye. A calling card on a tee shirt.
5. Keep It Intersectional by Sarah Crutwell. The words ‘Keep It’ are horizontal at the top of the design and the word ‘Intersectional’ is vertically spelled out to allow other words to cross over it, matching letters up where they meet. The other word are: Disability, race, socio-economic background, sexuality, culture, neurodiversity, gender identitiy and age.
6. Crip the System by Bex Bowsher. An intricate decorative pattern of black ink on white, including hearts, dots, zig zags, swirls, floral patterning within which are written the word, ‘crip the system’, ‘criminalise the hoarding of wealth’ and ‘legs club’.
7. End Ableism – Get Shirty by Vici Wreford-Sinnott. A bold black image at the centre of which is a one finger hand gesture, accompanied by the words of the title.
8. Life Hack: Yoga by Coll Metcalfe. A peach background with rust coloured writing with the text of the title on the tee shirt.
9. Eat The Poor by Vince Laws. A photograph of a blond haired Vince in a smart costume with his thumb up in front of a framed image which says ‘eat the poor’, the letters of which are made of sausages and bacon.
10. Rope by Eddie Galvin. A black and white photograph of a circle of rope neatly arranged on a jetty near the sea. The end of the rope has a loop in it used for securing the boats.
11. Let’s Riot by Lisa Dennis. On a background of flames, lines from Lisa’s poem read: “stop your fucking nagging, you have your head far up your rectum, go stick your head in the pits of hell and fry”
12. Freedom by Pauline Heath. Blue lettering on a rust coloured sign saying freedom. A red arrow above points to the left.
13. Those ov us who have learnt to love our madnesses by gobscure. Red, orange and yellow lettering over abstract paint work.
14. Blood on their… by Kev Howard. A close up of a sculptural prosthetic arm and hook shaped hand attachment. There is blood dripping from the hook.
15. Disability Rights: At least I can tell my kids I did not stay silent. You? By Vici Wreford-Sinnott. Multi coloured lettering on a white tee shirt.
16. Criptease - we’ve got bite by Vici Wreford-Sinnott. The lettering is in bold black and is similar to mock-horror font. A large red lipstick kiss is central to the image.
17. Hashtag Not in my lifetime bold black text on white. This is a lyric from a Karen Sheader song.
18. The Full Picture by Pauline Heath. A digital collage in indigoes and blues, incorporating an image of the starlit sky, satellite images of the sea, and planet earth. There is an image of a planet on fire and a person in an astronaut suit.
19. Funny Peculiar Lockdown 2020. An image from a Little Cog lockdown production suggested by Pauline Heath and created by ARC Stockton and Vici Wreford-Sinnott. A banner image of four characters from the show. L-R Vici as Raquelle, short spiky blind hair. Mandy Colleran as Blanche wearing a headset with microphone and holding a postcard. Liz Carr as Zsa Zsa wearing a stripy long scarf in her black bob hairstyle and Bea Wesbter, two arms in the air as if she has won a medal. The background is neon pink and green.
20. Steptoe and Son by Pauline Heath. A digital collage featuring two internet images of the two main actors in the television programme. The collage looks torn and cracked as if things are breaking down. Green textures mixed with broken walls.
21. Hamster Wheel by Pauline Heath. A grey lilac and ruby coloured digital collage. A grey hamster is partially constructed of hamster wheels.
    

About Pauline Heath
Pauline is an enthusiastic professional in the arts sector with a wide range of experience. I trained in acting with Graeae theatre company and toured in their much acclaimed production of Mother Courage. I did a performing Arts Degree at Newcastle College which was a major achievement for me, given the barriers that still exist in much arts training for disabled people. I have lots of experience working with learning disabled people, and across all disability. I have been awarded a number of Arts Council grants to create work, and presented my one woman show Never-Neverland at ARC earlier this year. I also created a production called Occupation which looked at the impact of Government cuts on disabled people. It had four professional actors and a community cast of 12.

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