artworks
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Corinne (They/Them)
The Severed Tail
Sculpture, yarn and pressed daisy flowers
I’m a disabled artist. I’ve been ill since childhood, and for the last six years my health has confined me to bed.
I made this braid from yarn and chose this colour which looks like my Nan’s hair. Nan or Mam-gu who’s Welsh has always wished to have a long braid.
Influenced by the Welsh Dragon I’ve called this piece ‘The Severed Tail’. Nan had a difficult childhood and feels cut off from her family.
Nan’s been knitting since she was three years old. Working with yarn helps my hair pulling disorder (Trichotillomania). It keeps my hands busy and away from pulling the little hair I have left.
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A dragon’s tail made of yarn.
It looks like my Nan’s braid and keeps my hands busy.
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Corinne (They/Them)
A Bedtime Story
Self-portrait photographic print, hand coloured with acrylic paint
I’m a disabled artist and for the last six years my health has confined me to bed. I’m a member of ArtRiot Collective, attending studio session’s remotely to develop my practice. This photographic self-portrait, is influenced by the Lady Godiva statue, in particular her hair. This braid constructed from yarn, is the same colour as Nans hair, covered in Forget-Me-Nots. Both myself and Nan struggle to leave home. Please don’t forget the people like us who were confined to our homes and beds long before the Pandemic and still are.
N.B. The image below is not interactive.
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A heart of hair and forget-me-nots,
please remember those still confined, still unseen.
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Dove McColm
Best friend
Acrylic on canvas
This piece attempts to encapsulate one of earth’s most beautiful creations and my best friend. Life presents us with tragedy, but amongst the pain we are given treasures.
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This painting shows a beautiful rabbit.
It is the artist’s best friend.
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Ismatjahan Ravat
All the corners of the world
Acrylic paint, ink and pens on canvas square mounted on a wooden frame
As my love for art grows, so does my art. From tiny little drawings to a 3D cube, my art world is well and truly expanded. Now you can really see all my colours from all the corners of my art world
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I love making art.
Now you can see it from all sides.
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Ismatjahan Ravat
Delicate drips, dots and dabbles
Acrylic paint, ink and pens on paper.
It starts with a dip, then a dabble, and I try a few drips.
Then I delicately dot it to my mind’s perfection.
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My art starts with a drip of paint and grows from there until it is perfect in my mind.
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Melissa Perring
Unravelled
Wire, silver foil, plaster, paint, polystyrene chips, gaffer tape and wooden rods
My art piece is an expression of overwhelming thoughts and feelings of my own uncertainty with regards to my career in the context of other local and worldly events and injustices that weigh heavily on my mind.
I’ve left one part of the explosion with the ‘stuffing knocked out of it’, and my children wanted me to leave another part unfinished so that people could see how it was made.
I’ve used brush tip pens to write a combination of a stream of consciousness and pre-written poems, including a poem written by another neurodivergent friend.
If you visit the gallery, you can add to the poem yourself using the pens beneath the artwork.
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An unfinished explosion of poems.
It speaks about stress, hope and uncertainty.
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Munkyle
Bloody Angry
Acrylic red on black canvas
This painting was made just before my Art Council England ‘developing my creative practice grant started and I love how aggressive it looks.
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Painted before my grant began
‘Bloody Angry’ shows exactly how I felt.
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Munkyle
Toxic Nothing
Multicoloured acrylic paint on black canvas
I like how dirty this one looks. I love how using a black canvas gives normally brighter colours a different perspective.
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I like how dirty this one looks. I love how using a black canvas gives normally brighter colours a different perspective.
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Munkyle
Crusty new
Liquid latex and acrylic paint on cartridge paper
My first play around with latex and paint. I love the potential for different physical textures, kind of like the idea of inviting people to feel my work
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My first play around with latex and paint. I love the potential for different physical textures, kind of like the idea of inviting people to feel my work
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Pauline Alexander
Tale of the Kite
Knitted wool, paper, wood and ribbon
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My creation is a kite with a variety of hand knitted birds attached, each with an underlying story told by the members of the art group.
It represents the diversity of life, and the kite is helping my birds to fly as they may have a disability or underlying health condition.
The freedom of flying and escaping from the world’s many problems appeals to my personal desire to escape.
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Each bird tells a different story.
The kite helps them to soar together to freedom.
