Pink inked background with a large yellow cog filled with fire-orange. Text reads IN/Visible National Disabled Women's Arts Collective, and Rising in Our Power. A diverse array of hands are positioned as if turning the cog of change. Artwork by Caroline Cardus inspired by ideas from the collective.

Group Exhibition

07 January 2025

Rising in our Power -  In/Visible Women

Saturday, February 8 · 11am - 3pm GMT

 

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, mima

Centre Square Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ

Michelle Baharier

Come and Join us at MIMA for a wonderful, welcoming community celebration with performances, interventions, arts activities and workshops!

 

A free event, with BSL and audio description, but please get in touch in advance to advise us of your access requirements.

 

What One Thing Would Improve The World? Come and share a space to think about supportive communities - make a zine to take home, make a placard, hold a procession, chat with others, watch performances and enjoy the company. Let’s takeover MIMA! Image - a photo montage of portraits of the nine members of the collective - colourful, happy and thoughtful faces.  With 500 years experience of life here on planet earth between us, we’d love to spend some time with you to share accessible arts experiences. We are interested in community space- making, activism and action. Nine amazing artists will share performances and workshops, talk about their work and make things with you. We also have a brand new zine publication to give to visitors with artwork, writing and fun little gifts inside. Rising in Our Power reflects our journey post lockdown, and how we have built a new way of working together, cross-pollinating our diverse artforms and approaches, in the hope of more sustainable practice. www.littlecog.co.uk Logos - ARC Stockton, Arts Council, MIMA, Little Cog, Teesside University

Share a space to think about supportive communities - make a zine to take home, make a placard, hold a procession, chat with others, watch performances and enjoy the company. Let’s takeover MIMA!

 

 

Many readers of my newsletters will already know that I am a part of ‘In/visible Women’ A national collective of disabled women artists/activists, who have been working together since 2020, where we met on Zoom to support each other’s practice and shared working time together. This expanded into commissioned exhibitions of visual arts we made in 2023. I created my very large paintings ‘Life as is’ for this exhibition.

 

 

I am thrilled and proud to announce that on Saturday 8 February (11am-3pm) I will be part of an amazing takeover at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art by our IN/Visible National Disabled Women's Arts Collective which includes: Vici Wreford-Sinnott, Dolly Sen, Samantha Blackburn, Lynne Mcfarlane, Honor Flaherty, Caroline Cardus, Pauline Heath and Julie MacNamara. There are going to be performances, interventions, zine and placard making, a procession, and a beautiful publication we’ve created for people to take away.

 

 

 

I will be showing my latest performance ‘Growing in my Power’. My piece will begin with my school report from 1972 before I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Since then, the world has changed and I will explore this with spoken word and the use of body and costume.

I will create an intervention for the audience combining the life of a dyslexic, an outsider who shares the hidden women of Middlesbrough’s fight as suffragettes and wearers of trousers. I also bring to life my Transformation Bridge with the reality of the Transporter Bridge that is locally known as the Dragonfly Bridge.

 

 

I would like to thank all the women in the group for their support whilst making this work and also Jackie Montague who collaborated with me on the text, Natalie Webb who designed the costume with me and Jackie Joyce who gave advice. 


This work has been made possible and is supported by the Arts Council England, ARC Stockton, MIMA, Little Cog, Teesside University.

 

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