Projects
Disability and Daily Art Practice
Disability and Daily Art Practice
This project explores how immersive technologies can help disabled artists to improve their daily life and how this can in turn can help them create more and better art regardless of medium.
Disabled artists encounter so many barriers when it comes to making art and making art a career. Immersive technologies are often offered up as a solution for them as artists but this can mean that we as disabled artists have to modify and change our style and medium to fit the accommodations/technologies we have been given.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
What I wanted to explore was how I can use these new technologies to solve every day problems I face as a disabled person, not as an artist.
If I can integrate them into my every day life to help me overcome barriers and give me more energy and time to create any and all art then whether I use them in the process or final product becomes a choice, returning to me my autonomy. By using immersive technology this way my definition of Immersive Arts expands past just the technology itself and becomes integral to all aspects of what I create whether it is ancient printing techniques, early 19th century photography or the latest cutting edge immersive exhibit. I hope in this way immersive technologies allow me to create incredible experiences for my audience by first allowing me, as a disabled artist, finally immerse myself into the art that has always called out to my heart but I could never quite reach.
Meet the artist
Turtle Ravenholt
Artist
she/they
Turtle Ravenholt is a photographer, printmaker and poet from Canada now working and living in Newcastle Upon Tyne. As an autistic and disabled artist they use a monochromatic black and white palette to mimic their black and white thinking. This theme of contrast flows through all of their work as they examine numerous conflicting ideas such as nature versus man, past and future and the complex societal messaging about what society values and what it sees as waste. Through their art and practice they hope to allow others to find new and fresh ways of thinking and feeling about the world.
