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Join us for a panel discussion exploring neurodiversity and its relationship to contemporary art practice.To coincide with Liverpool’s Neurodiversity Arts Festival 2024 artists Becky Beasley, Sonia Boué and Pierce Starre will be in conversation with Claire Penketh, Professor of Disability Studies and Art Education at Hope University.
The talk will explore how we can rethink contemporary arts practice in relation to neurodiversity and how the neurodiversity paradigm can inform art and its education. The Neurodiversity Arts Festival aims to start a conversation that opens doors, buildings, and minds and showcases the full spectrum of neurodivergent talent.
Tickets: £5/£3 for Members and Concessions
Biographies:
Becky Beasley
Becky Beasley is an award-winning visual artist, educator and advocate based in Hastings. She has exhibited widely both at a national and international level.
Her practice spans sculpture, installation and photography to explore the ambiguities of human experience focusing on everyday moments of intensity and private revelation. Often working at the limit of language, her work attempts to describe the deeply private experiences of life and otherness.
Sonia Boué
Sonia Boué is an Oxford based Anglo-Spanish neurodivergent artist. Her practice includes eclectic and also hyper-focused research, collage and photomontage, writing, advocacy, activism, guest lecturing, project work and mentoring. Recent publications include Neurophotoherapy: Playfully Unmasking with Photography and Collage (2023).
Pierce Starre
Pierce Starre is an artist based in Liverpool whose multidisciplinary practice draws from the multifaceted intersections of their cultural experience as a queer, working-class, neurodivergent individual raised by Deaf parents who communicate using British Sign Language. Their practice seeks to initiate opportunities to examine and subvert the prevailing heteronormative and neuronormative societal narratives. Through live performance, objects, text, still and moving images, their work creates immersive experiences that foster connection, reflection, discussion, and transformative possibilities.
Claire Penketh
Claire Penketh is Professor of Disability Studies & Art Education and Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education and author of A History of Disability and Art Education. She has published widely on the topic of disability studies and art education. She is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design Education (NSEAD) and chair of their special interest group on Anti-ableist Pedagogy.
Accessibility:
Tate Liverpool is temporarily located at RIBA North, Mann Island, a short distance (425m) along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. There is step free access to the main entrance. There is a lift to the first floor gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Toilets are located on the first floor
- The nearest Changing Places toilet is located at the Museum of Liverpool
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the front desk
Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff if you require assistance.
To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
BSL interpretation is available.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Mann Island, L3 1BP Liverpool, United Kingdom, 21 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1, United Kingdom,Liverpool
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