How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Introductions at Studio A
	A kind of dance at Project Art Works
	Knowledge in art’s defence
	Beside Judith Scott
	Intellectual disability, neurodiversity, and photocopying
	Some things about me
	References
2 Studios
	Studio A again
	Project Art Works beginnings
	A tidy studio
	An artistic family
	Working space
	VBs and photocopies
	Bathroom Industries
	Dinosaur Town
	Transformation
	A happening
	Value
	An offering to the trains
	Artists and makers
	I am an artist
	Woody Tiger
	The self vanishes
	Being with
	Songs
	A piano
	Dumb and mute
	References
3 Writing beside
	Should art speak for itself?
	What I did
	Writing culture
	Othering
	Narratives of socially engaged art
	Critical space
	Attention
	Looking
	Listening
	Making
	Codes and lists
	Storied lives
	Thin-film interference
	What have I done?
	References
4 Project Art Works: The Not Knowing of Another
	A film
	Theory of mind
	Calm bafflement
	What she knows
	Pat pat pat
	Paul: I
	Eden: mind as landscape
	Paul: II
	Knowing, not knowing
	Carl
	They lead I follow
	Explain being in the moment
	Paul: III
	Looking at the sky
	The remains of something
	Back to brown
	What I know
	References
5 Thom Roberts: Making together
	Making
	An animation
	Locomotive reproduction
	Hairdryers and photocopiers
	Fragment of fridge
	Art bank
	Tim Tams at Kennedy’s
	Photocopier conversations
	Crowded people
	Thom and Angelmouse
	Thom and Santa Claus
	Making Thom move and making decisions
	Remote control
	A cure?
	References
6 Lisa Tindall: How disability feels
	An owl and some words
	A letter
	Life story
	Reading the journals: I
	Nothing about us without us
	Two dresses
	A painting of a mother
	Skulls
	Reading the journals: II
	Reading the journals: III
	On writing
	Reading the journals: IV
	Life practice
	Impact
	Know how we feel
	References
7 Skye Saxon: Kicking a thought bubble
	Steampunk Ringmaster
	Into a head
	Pixie assistant
	Stranger
	Catching stories in my net
	At the art gallery: I
	On the creative process
	Hattel Aquereum
	Inscriptions
	At the art gallery: II
	Stuck and unstuck
	Skye writing
	The whole story
	Characters and cream pies
	Elemental empathy
	Be someone else
	A maze
	References
8 Madame Witch: Between worlds
	How would you start?
	My reading
	Do you want to know what they say?
	Vice versa
	Between worlds
	The Hanged Man
	Tiny writing and tents
	Spirals
	Explanation
	Encounters
	Primal envy
	Climb down in
	Flavia Dujour
	The sympathetic gaze
	It is what it is
	Thinking in pictures
	References
9 Project Art Works: Illuminating the Wilderness
	Sharif: I
	Ecological selves
	They looked like trees
	That’s my son
	Gabriella: we spoke about the trees
	What do you see?
	Tim
	Sharif: II
	Why did he cry?
	Consent
	George and Sam
	A rocket
	Sharif: III
	References
10 Thom’s way with crowns and trains
	Budgie keynote
	A mind in everything?
	Emotions
	Crowns
	Andrew
	Kenny Matthews
	Crowns again
	The gifts I have given and the gifts I have received
	A magic show
	Disability
	Thom’s way
	References
11 Verbs and nouns and the work of art
	The lyric and I
	What does this art do?
	Careful attention
	What has this art done?
	Work
	References
Index