Research – Printmaking – Installation – Photography
This film is an auto-ethnographic walk, meaning that it is my perspective. This film highlights the lack of high-quality research regarding the authentic female autistic experience. I hope this silent film goes some way to explain the importance of asking ‘how do autistic women appropriate public space?’
Exploring Identity and Access Through Sensory-Inspired Art, Autistic Women and Public Space
I am delighted to share that I will be creating a new body of work comprising screen prints and artist books, thanks to the generous support of the Creative Practice Research Academy (CPRA) grant. This project will explore the profound impact of heightened sensory processing on women’s identity and how it influences their access to, and engagement with, public spaces.
Through this work, I aim to ignite important conversations surrounding disability, public access, and gender. My creative practice acts as visual elicitation—a means of sparking dialogue. To inform the project, I have begun engaging with autistic women via my social media platforms, inviting them to share their experiences of ‘otherness’ in social spaces. These candid and often deeply personal perspectives are shaping both the aesthetics of the prints and artist books and the overall direction of the project.
I am overwhelmed and hugely overjoyed to announce that I have won a SeNSS (South-East Social Sciences) scholarship. This is a full student led scholarship funded by the ESRC (Economic Social Research Council).
The aim of this project is to explore how autistic women’s complex embodied experience of the built environment may be codified or systematically analysed, through a perceptual model of wayfinding. Empowering autistic women’s wayfinding thus widens participation in the design of placemaking for minority groups. This project has grown from my own photography practice where I’ve explored my own autism in relation to the built environment.
