As a south-west based disabled artist, my practise sits between the space of digital and live performance. I want to directly challenge categorisation, re-writing notions of what is disabling about being disabled. Shifting perceptions of disability towards positive identity drives my creative work,
My work sits between theatre, performance, dialogue, live art and digital media. I am interested in the flow between performance and space – a dynamic approach to explore, understand, question and ultimately challenge ‘othering’, leading to the fundamental question – what is disabling about being disabled?
I legitimise my lived experience as a disabled body to create original performance and engage audience to tackle hegemony in all its forms.
I invite audiences into arrestive dialogues, laced with humour, discomfort and commonality. Rejecting narratives of ‘pity’, I aim inspired by impaired bodies & minds as canvases of universal experience, beauty, care & empathy. Exploration and voice drives my creative work, through soundscape, text workhop and projection, from the mundane to the theatrical.
, presentations of ‘failures’ and vulnerabilities.
A detailed overview/CV of my journey through creativity and collaboration can be found here
“Since his graduation and university study, he has since progressed to prove himself to be a thoughtful academic, a brilliant writer, a facilitator and an exciting emerging artist and theatre-maker. He is a passionate and enthusiastic participant who engages fully in art, theatre making and the wider community with a strong sense of social justice and integrity”
‘Feeling uncomfortable is a necessary part of unlearning oppressive behaviors’ – Kailash Satyarthi
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Photo credits for the majority of graphics within this website (unless otherwise stated): Emily Appleton, South West Theatre Photography – Emily is a local event photographer who always captures the essence and character of every creative session and platform performance