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My
work past and present
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Prince
of Wales Hospice, Pontefract
I am currently artist-in-residence at
the hospice, which is based in a mining
area in Yorkshire. I am part of a team
employed by Rosetta Life www.rosettalife.org
to create a two-year digital arts project.
Patients' and carers' lifestories can
be found at the hospices' extranet and
in a virtual gallery on the Rosetta website.
I
am particularly skilled in working with
marginalised groups: women, black people,
working-class people and elders. I do
this as a lecturer/consultant, facilitator,
or as an oral historian in residence,
creating collective projects that result
in plays, books, booklets, videos and
exhibitions.
These
projects are listed below:
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Battersea
Arts Centre
As
oral historian in residence,
I created an exhibition
and booklet about the
centenary of the building,
Battersea Old Town
Hall:1893-1993.
That
booklet, published by
BAC, 1993, is available
in Lavender Hill Library.
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Hackney
Hospital
During the hospital's closure,
I was oral historian in residence.
I was part a team of artists,
Rear Window. who made arts
products before closure. Testimony
I collected contributed to
the booklet, Care and Control,
1995. See my article on wordless
sound: 'Sounding it out',
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Mapping
Our Lives courses Hulme
Adult Education Centre,
Manchester
These courses included
the Afro-Caribbean elders
project. This won them
the NIACE award for Adult
Learner of the Year.
We
created an exhibition,
and helped create two
plays. One of these, No
Bed of Roses, is regularly
performed at the
Pump House People's History
Museum. It shows schoolchildren
about Caribbean women's
experience of migration
to Manchester in the 1950s
and 1960s.
For
information about an earlier
course, see my Mapping
Lives', Adults Learning,
Vol 10, no 3, November
1998, p11-12
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Wandsworth
Women's
Working
Love Stories:
See
For
Love and
Shillings
(with
Bronwen
Griffiths)
History
Workshop,
1991.
'Just
an Old
Picture
of Me
at Work'
Family
Snaps:
The Meanings
of Domestic
Photography,
eds Jo
Spence
and Pat
Holland.
Virago,
1991,
pp60-71.
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I
collected
and edited
writings
about
the work
experience
of women
over 60
for the
Older
Women's
Project.
Pensioner's
Link:
To
Make Ends
Meet
(1989)
London:
Older
Women's
Project.
I collected
memories,
edited
them,
and helped
dramatise
them with
Hackney
Older
Women's
Group.
Our products
included
a play,
Side
By Side,
see pic
above
and a
booklet:
Side by
Side
(1990)
London:
OWP.
I created
an exhibition
for Islington
Museum
Services:
Love
Stories,
an oral
history
exhibition
about
loving
in the
borough,
1992.
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