UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
HERE/NOW
2022
Hand-cut vinyl prints on painted metal shutters; six panels, various dimensions.
Nuns Way Pavilion, North Cambridge
Made in collaboration with a group of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors from Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan and The Gambia.
Using photographs from a series of performative actions, these digital collages use the universal language of gesture to respond to the participants’ shared experiences of living in the UK. The layered and repetitive patterns of their hands reflect the geographical topographies of their homelands as well as their individual journeys to being here, now.
Developed through the project Here/Now, commissioned by Kettle's Yard and supported by Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge Regional College, North Cambridge Community Partnership and Arts Council England.
Here/Now (2022), Panel #4 and Panel #5
Here/Now (2022), North-east view
