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Kristina Veasey

Visual Artist

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Hoarding genes

My great aunt was a hoarder.

When she sadly died, we moved more than two hundred and fifty black bags of papers out of her house.

I’m aware I have these genes and I fight them all the time.

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Happy #internationaldayofdisabledpersons Solidari Happy #internationaldayofdisabledpersons Solidarity to all those who still have to wrap themselves in metaphorical padding in order to protect themselves when navigating everyday #ableism despite it being 2022. With thanks to those warriors that went before us, and fought for the changes we appreciate today. To those who stand alongside us now, thankyou. And to the future generations, for whom I hope this battle will no longer be necessary, onwards and upwards! Be fabulous. Be unique. Be unexpected. Or just be ordinary. It's up to you. Having the choice and opportunity to be whatever you want to be, should come as standard, without the need for padding. #disability #disabled #mentalhealth #chronicillness #artist #disabilityarts #neurodivergent #activism #disabilityrights #InternationalDisabilityDay
I have started overtly labeling my process a 'Slow I have started overtly labeling my process a 'Slow Art approach', in funding applications. It stems from a need for periods of 'creative bathing' in my artistic practice (an idea formed out of the 'forest bathing' elements incorporated into my recent work around forests). Building in time for mulling and developing ideas, resting, and percolating, is how I work. I carry the creation and development of ideas alongside daily activities, nurturing them, taking influence, being mindful, and becoming fully immersed in the project. All my best projects and artworks develop this way. I live them and breathe them. And this time is unpaid. I'd price myself out of any work if I put my actual working hours on paper. But going at this pace is also an access need. The two merge. And just as you can't seperate living with health conditions and experiencing barriers, from you as a person: your identity, your ways of responding to the world; it is also difficult to separate my creative approach, from my access needs. The two are not always distinct, separate things. Sometimes they are the result of finding a strategy that works, in the best way possible, because the alternative would be not working at all. They blur, especially when navigating fluctuating aspects like fatigue, pain, brain fog, and sudden flare ups.A more holistic approach to supporting access needs would work better. At the moment, there are many things disabled people do, or modify, to get by, but that are not recognised as access needs. Time taken to find accessible hotels or train journeys can take days. Days of frustration, sometimes to no avail, and leading to ill health and feeling back in a place of discrimination and hopelessness. None of that time is paid or accounted for in project planning or commissions etc. The mere thought of dealing with it, can put me off even pursuing some pieces of work. Taking more time actually a necessity in my work. And in my experience, living and breathing a project over time, is beneficial to the creation of a more considered and multi layered artwork. Slow Art is definitely the way forward. In fact it's the only way it can go forward. #internationaldisabilityday
#REPOST in light of this week's @guardian article #REPOST in light of this week's @guardian article about fellow paralympian and former team mate Helene Raynsford being given no option to sign (or not) a DNR. Disabled people are not being consulted on this and it's open to abuse. It echoes the issue I highlighted back in lockdown, where disabled covid patients were allocated DNR's without either their or their family's consent. Weighing up the value of disabled people: Non - consensual DNR's Herd immunity collateral damage Economic productivity? Useless eaters Freak shows Inspiration porn Charity cases Incarceration Discrimination Prejudice Inequality Scapegoats etc etc Snapshot of footage from micro commission film for @weareunltd and @wellcomecollection #disability #disabled #mentalhealth #chronicillness #artist #digitalart #disabilityarts #artist #activist #wheelchair #neurodivergent #value #history #archives #wellcomecollection #UnlimitedCommissions #repostandroid #repostw10 #DNR #heleneraynsford #paralympian
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So this is what was happening this time last year. So this is what was happening this time last year. Production of 'Meander', my sculptural resting perch formed from steam-bent Oak, up in the Lake District with @charliewhinneystudio Its been a long old haul with waiting for the planning permission, and then a frustrating setback with the location, even after it had been approved. So now we've identified a new site, on the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, and are going through the whole process again! Hoping for a spring install. In the meantime, the 'bench' is weathering nicely under the care of @charliewhinneystudio and the quarry are storing the selected rocks that it will rest on once installed. For more background to Meander and my work with @FODSculpture and @weareunltd have a look at my website kristinaveasey.com (link in bio) #basketcase #oak #steambending #furniture #sculpture #PublicArt #OutdoorArt #forestofdean #forest #shinrinyoku #forestbathing #weaving #barriers #resilience #disabilityarts #wyevalley #UnlimitedCommissions #esmeefairbairnfoundation
A Complete Basketcase: A compilation reel of Dada- A Complete Basketcase: A compilation reel of Dada-esque video interruptions, screened @focalpointgallery for #waiwav 2022 #disabilityart #performance #digitalart #activism #art
Still immersed in all things Basketcase, this time Still immersed in all things Basketcase, this time with @paralympicheritage Currently weaving together 90 children's raffia circles, to create a wall hanging for their school reception area. #weaving #baskets #basketcase #raffia #naturalmaterials #basketweaving #participation #artworkshop #paralympics
'Eruption' An overflow of emotion brought forth by 'Eruption' An overflow of emotion brought forth by grief and family crisis, found its way into my weaving, manifesting in this striking, and uncontainable explosion. #basketcase #reclaiming #naturalmaterials #weaving #baskets #barriers #raffia #disabilityarts #grief #crisis #mentalhealth
Another of my video interruptions from #waiwav pla Another of my video interruptions from #waiwav played on @bigscreensouthend at @focalpointgallery Celebrating 102nd anniversary of Dada, and highlighting the barriers we weave through, and the unravelings experienced in lockdown. We are #basketcase. #weaving #baskets #wireweaving #contemporarybaskets #dada #disability #activism #artistfilm #covid #lockdown #disabilityarts #DashArts #focalpointgallery #basketry
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