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DIALOGUE BEYOND SIGHT | DIALOGUE
Large Print Exhibition Guide
Gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse
Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH
Private View Tuesday 12 July 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Open daily Wednesday 13 - Sunday 17 July 2016
11am - 6pm Admission free
Curated by Andrew Mashigo and Rachel Gadsden
Dialogue Beyond Sight ® is a MaMoMi project supported using public
funding by Arts Council England. gallery@oxo is owned and managed
by Coin Street Community Builders: www.coinstreet.org
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Dialogue Beyond Sight Exhibition is a cross
disciplinary multisensory collaboration
featuring the works of visually impaired artists
and performers.
This exhibition brings together emerging and
mainstream artists and performers in response
to the theme dialogue. Collaborators examine
the links between artist and audience, and
practitioner and practice, presenting an eclectic
range of artworks that include paintings,
illustrations, sculptures and installations, with
performances that include recital, storytelling
and classical songs.
Dialogue inherently exists within creative
practice and can sometimes be misunderstood
or completely disregarded. Artists and
performers lead the authorship in
interpretation of their works so it is objective,
and not subjective.
Supporting the idea of objective interpretation,
a series of scheduled workshops led by visually
impaired artists, performers and other
contributors providing an opportunity to find
out a little more about their practice.
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For those visitors requiring a quiet tour of the
exhibition, please contact us for an individual
tour designed for your needs.
Booking is essential as places are limited.
Email [email protected] or speak to
someone in the event planning team.
Sally Booth. John Bramblitt. Kimberley
Burrows. Lynn Cox. Fiona Dunn. Rachel
Gadsden. Julie Imus. Zara Jayne. Lloyd
McCullough. Ian McNamara. Victoria Oruwari
Kate Portal. Magdalena Rutkowska. Michael
Williams
Dialogue Beyond Sight ®
Copyright © 2016 Mamomi Initiative CIC
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ARTISTS
Sally Booth London, UK
Sally is a visual artist whose main specialism is
drawing and painting. Her work also includes
photographic light-boxes, 3D drawing
installations, collaborative projects with artists
and writers and live participative work with the
public.
Much of her work is site specific in nature,
made in response to particular locations and
the people she meets. Her residencies have
included places as diverse as Shetland,
Cornwall, Hastings and Liverpool, working on
the spot, often to a time limit and in all
weathers.
Sally has had exhibitions at Tate Modern and
South Bank, London, Bluecoat Liverpool, and
Scottish Parliament Edinburgh.
She has also devised and run workshops in a
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range of cultural and community settings with
groups including school children, young people,
children and families, older people, people with
learning disabilities and women prisoners.
Sally's Walking Boots 2015
56 x 21 cm
Ink, iron oxide and mine slime on handmade
paper made from local vegetation, North
Cornwall
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John Bramblitt
Texas, USA John’s art has been sold in over thirty
countries and he has appeared on CBS Evening
News with Katie Couric, ABC, NBC, FOX,
Discovery Channel, and BBC. He has also been
featured in The New York Times, Psychology
Today, and has designed artwork for major
film productions. He's the subject of award
winning documentary "Line of Sight" and
“Bramblitt.”
His work has received much recognition
including the “Most Inspirational Video of
2008” from YouTube and three Presidential
Service Awards for his innovative art
workshops. He is the current selectee for the
Texas Governor’s Disability Employment
Awareness poster and his documentary,
“Shouting in the Dark”, is the story of
Bramblitt's life and his journey navigating the
new territory of visual impairment.
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John lost the last of his vision in 2001 due to
complications with epilepsy and Lyme's
disease, but in discovering painting, in John’s
words, “Art reshaped my life.” John’s paintings
are intensely personal, and his
workshops include adaptive techniques for
people with disabilities.
Ben 2016
28 x 36 cm
Oil on canvas
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Kimberley Burrows
Manchester, UK
Kimberley is a self-taught illustrator currently
studying for an Illustration Degree at Leeds
College of Art where she is a Student
Representative, Student Ambassador and
Student Governor. She was previously RNIB’s
Young Illustrator of the Year 2014, creating six
illustrations published in their Insight
magazine.
Despite her severe visual impairment,
Kimberley has been involved in many projects
including creating a front cover for the UK
Scouts 'Get Active' supplement, illustrating a
piece for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust as
part of their Memory Makers project, producing
greetings cards for Henshaws and Foster Care
Associates, designing a composition to
celebrate the 150th birthday of John Lewis
displayed at The Trafford Centre and
generating an illustration for the “One Man’s
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Vision” exhibition displayed at Salford Museum
and Art Gallery.
Kimberley has loved art all of her life and uses
this creative outlet to allow her to draw from
emotions and experiences which she translates
into colourful imagery. Her wish is to pursue a
career in children's books illustrations, focusing
heavily on accessibility and inclusion.
The Gingerbread Man 2016
Watercolour, acrylic mono-print
30 x 30 cm
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Lynn Cox
London, UK
Since undertaking a BA and MA at Wimbledon
School of Art, Lynn's artwork has concentrated
on questioning the validity of the image as
"spectacle" (as a passive representation of
reality).
Challenging the ocularcentricity of Western
culture, her work is designed to elevate
sensations, perceptions and language to a
higher status (which is usually granted to the
poorly visual), without denigrating sight and
the image to a subservient position.
Since the 1990's, Lynn has exhibited her
concept-driven mixed and multi-media art
nationally and internationally, including group
shows in London, Cologne, Glasgow and San
Francisco.
She has also established a number of
commercial arts, coaching and training
products and services, including Scented or
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Tactile Greetings Cards, and Braille Identity
and Business Cards.
Lynn's art is informed, but not dominated, by
her visual impairment. In fact, the art is
intrinsic to her work as a Mentor and Life
Coach, Disability Arts Consultant and Equality
and Awareness Trainer. Likewise, these other
aspects of Lynn's career feed back into her
art.
Resilience 2015
Copper wire with wooden base
30 x 26 x 25 cm
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Rachel Gadsden
London, UK
Rachel is a multi-award winning artist, her
major commissions including resident artist for
Hampton Court Palace (2008 - 2009), 4
projects for UK Parliament (2009 - 2015) and
"Unlimited Global Alchemy" and "Starting Line"
for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
She represented the UK with "This Breathing
World" for Qatar - UK Year of Culture
2013 with British Council and the Qatari
Government, which was formally opened by
HRH Prince Charles. Further international
commissions include "Talking Souls" in
collaboration with BC South Africa & Artscape
and "Al Noor - Fragile Vision", an ACE and
British Council funded project in collaboration
with multiple partners in UK and Middle East.
In 2016 Gadsden was awarded an Artist
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International Development Fund Award and an
a-n Travel Bursary to travel to Palestine. She
has been appointed lead artist for the Lighting
of the Rio Paralympic Torch Festival at Stoke
Mandeville Stadium. In Nov 2016 Gadsden will
be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from
London South Bank University.
Gadsden was awarded the National Diversity
Award 2013: "Positive Role Model for
Disability", and was shortlisted for the
European Diversity Awards, Hero of the Year
2014 and won Breakthrough UK - National
Independent Living Award influencing disabled
people’s participation in society.
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Beyond Sight 2016
Mixed media on Somerset paper
50 x 60 cm
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Julie Imus
Iowa, USA
Julie is a visually impaired artist and lover of
nature, animals and the outdoors
who was interested in painting from an early
age. Her paintings are mainly done in oils.
In June of 2007 Julie lost the vision in her left
eye, after already having had retinal damage
in her right eye. At that point she thought she
would never paint again but in the fall of 2011,
she felt God very strongly tell her to go back to
painting, and as she says, “and by God’s hand,
I am still able to do so.”
She graduated from the Cambridge-Isanti High
School in 1977, with her main interests being
art and music. She continues to explore
different painting styles and is currently trying
her hands at monochrome paintings as she
thinks they will look very strong and definitive.
Julie has had her work shown online via Artists
Showcase International in London and at the
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Freeborn County Arts Initiative in Albert Lea,
Minnesota, and also has some of her works in
private collections.
In the Meadows 2014
Oil on canvas
61 x 51 cm
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Lloyd McCullough
Cambridge, UK
Lloyd was born with Ushers Syndrome and his
sight continues to deteriorate. He has an HND
and BA (Hons) in Illustration.
Even from an early age Lloyd has been
interested in drawing. As a child, he collected
cartoons and comics, and enjoyed learning
about comic characters like Superman and
Transformers. Action film characters played by
Arnold Schwarzenegger influenced the way he
drew the human muscles and body tone.
Lloyd is an aspiring film writer and has
already created and directed his own short
film, “Awakening”, in 2011. He considers
this his personal achievement, and likes to use
his situation to "encourage people to be
unafraid of their disabilities.”
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The Forest Keeper 2009
Computer-aided painting
38 x 55 cm
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Magdalena Rutkowska
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Magdalena runs Ike Studio from her home in
Northern Ireland. She has been visually
impaired since she was six and has no retina in
both eyes.
Magdalena loves animals and has been
rehabilitating dogs and cats since 2003.
Her art work is created on canvas or thick
cardboard, using strips of paper of
various lengths, weights and textures which
she then twists, folds and curls, producing
interesting objects and shapes.
Magdalena uses her early memory of colours to
make objects with different subjects.
Sometimes her partner may give her an audio
description of objects she may want to use or
make prints of objects prepared on special
paper to help her visualize certain objects.
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The Possibilities 2016
3D picture on canvas
20 x 60 cm
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Michael Williams
Tennessee, USA
Michael is a self-taught artist who paints from
the soul, fulfilling his dream to paint. He was
diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease (also
known as fundus flavimaculatus) as a
teenager, a type of macular degeneration that
typically surfaces before the age of 20.
Michael has been visually impaired since birth
and started drawing and painting at the age of
10. He took an interest in art when he saw his
mother do a sketch of a cowboy riding off
toward the sunset. That helped him make the
decision to pursue and harvest his ability to
paint.
He specialises in acrylics, oils, pen and ink and
watercolour mediums.
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The Three Swans 2003
Oil on canvas
71 x 56 cm
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PERFORMERS
Fiona Dunn
London, UK
Fiona is a singer and songwriter in a
contemporary style with various influences
from pop to folk to classical.
Singing is the centre of her musicianship and
she started piano lessons at the age of two
before learning the guitar and percussion later,
as well as vocal training.
Before moving to London in 2014 from
Worcester, where she lived for many years,
Fiona participated in the “Three Choirs
Festival” for three years running, performing in
Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester
Cathedrals.
Fiona sings in three different choirs in London
and has participated in choral worship at
various church services. She has recently sung
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at choirs in various Cathedrals, including
Portsmouth, Southwark and Coventry.
During performances, you will hear songs with
carefully crafted lyrics and haunting melodies,
complimented by an angelic voice. She says: "I
am classically trained and for music to be
meaningful, it must come from the heart. The
most important thing in a performance is to
convey an emotion or a story as these things
breathe life into a song, changing it from
something good into a rare, beautiful jewel."
Fiona regularly works with children in West
London, where she sings to toddlers and their
parents, accompanied by Hayley the ukulele.
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Zara Jayne
London, UK
Zara is a performer, workshop facilitator, poet
and writer who likes to use the montage of
creative elements available to her in her
performances.
She trained at the Royal Central School of
Speech and Drama, and has performed at
Theatre Fan Club (Toynbee Studios); in "Down
The River Up The Road" Queens Theatre,
Hornchurch; “Prometheus Awakes” Maritime
Museum Greenwich; "A Mother’s Voice”
Barking Theatre; and "Sensory Immersion",
Acola Theatre.
She has just finished filming for a part in Holby
City (BBC1) and is currently rehearsing for "In
Sight Theatre" debut at Edinburgh Fringe
Festival on the 13th and 14th of August 2016.
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Ian McNamara
Birmingham, UK
Ian aspires to sing professionally. Singing is
something has always had great passion for
and he recently has started to attend courses
and training sessions to help him develop his
natural skills to the height he aspires to.
His private singing teacher and close friends
continue to encourage him believing he can
really be an inspiration to many others.
Gaining a lot more exposure and experience
are Ian’s main goals and he is also interested
in public speaking. He is getting his grade 8 in
singing and can also play the piano and flute.
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Victoria Oruwari
London, UK
An award winning soprano, Victoria’s repertoire
covers early classical to the modern day
musical theatre, jazz and folksongs.
Victoria is a frequent recitalist in and out of the
UK, performing at venues including Kensington
Palace, Royal Festival Hall, Colston Hall, The
Ferrari Museum in Italy with the orchestra from
the Pavarotti Foundation, Agip Recital Hall
Lagos with the Muson Orchestra at their
gala concert, various events hosted by Shell
Africa and the Liberty Festival in London.
Victoria has been the subject of two TV
documentaries by Attitude Pictures in New
Zealand after which they invited her to sing at
their awards night in Auckland. She made a
guest appearance with the British
Paraorchestra on the One Show as the soloist
in BBC Music Day 2015, and performed a
duet with Jarvis Cocker as part of 6 Music
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Festival 2016. Her most recent operatic role
was Mrs Peachum in Graeae Theatre’s co-
production of The Threepenny Opera which
toured the UK for 5 months.
Victoria is also a teacher of singing, and a
songwriter whose music has been recently
performed on BBC Radio 3’s “In Tune”
Program. She currently sings with the British
Paraorchestra.
Victoria can be booked to perform at your
event. Visit her website to hear her sing and
for more information.
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Kate Portal
London, UK
Kate is a singer-storyteller and Boundless Arts
performer whose work intertwines her love for
theatre, folk music and storytelling. She also
performs both the spoken and sung word with
musical instrumentation.
Using storytelling that orates traditional
material from a personal perspective, she likes
to give old tales the freedom to create a
contemporary experience.
Kate also teaches music to adults with learning
disabilities at Morley College, as well as
offering Disability Equality Training to staff.
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WORKSHOPS
Advance booking is necessary. Email
Workshop Schedule
1. Wednesday 13 July: 12noon - 2pm
The Talking Untouchables
Bernat Franquesa, Touch Graphics Europe
2. Wednesday 13 July: 3pm - 5pm
Talking Bio-mimicry: UltraCane
Julie Davies, UltraCane
3. Thursday 14 July: 12noon - 2pm
Talking Bio-mimicry: UltraBike
Julie Davies, UltraCane
4. Thursday 14 July: 3pm - 5pm
Running Beyond Sight
Lynn Cox and Glen Turner
5. Friday 15 July: 12noon - 2pm
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Drawing Beyond Sight
Rachel Gadsden
6. Friday 15 July: 3pm - 5pm
You Can Sing!
Victoria Oruwari
7. Saturday 16 July: 12noon - 2pm
Chocolate Beyond Sight
Lynn Cox
8. Saturday 16 July: 3pm - 5pm
Sight Loss Awareness
Lynn Cox and Sarah Newman
9. Sunday 17 July: 12noon - 2pm
Engage, Explore, Educate
The MaMoMi Team
10. Sunday 17 July: 3pm - 4pm
Curator’s Talk: Dialogue Beyond Sight
Andrew Mashigo and Rachel Gadsden
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About MaMoMi
MaMoMi is a trading name of Mamomi Initiative
CIC, a Community Interest Company and
social enterprise. The main objective of the
organisation is to enhance the experiences and
expand the possibilities available to visually
impaired and those at risk of exclusion. We use
visual culture as the platform for engagement
and ask you to join our journey to engage,
explore and educate.
Art and design add an enormous value to
the community and society as a whole, and
presents a great way of interacting with our
visual environment.
Art gives us the opportunity to explore various
ideas and subject matters and is an essential
part of public education. Design allows us to
explore the function and ergonomics of
materials and objects. Experience and research
continues to show the value of visual culture
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and we believe it is important that these values
and opportunities are open and inclusive to all.
As we continue to embed best practice within
our processes, we spread the goals of
improved access and ultimately strive to
support an inclusive society where the
appreciation of and engagement with visual
culture is not the single privilege of sighted
enthusiasts and practitioners.
Credits
Curators: Andrew Mashigo and Rachel
Gadsden
Interpretation: Lynn Cox and Lydia Reid
Art Installation: Mikei Hall
Website Design: Matteo Divito, MrSite
Graphic Design: Matt Potter, FirstPoint print
SE1
Wall Panels and Tactile Prints: Bernat
Franquesa, Touch Graphics Europe
Braille Wall Texts: Arts Coaching Training
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Large Print Catalogue Design: MaMoMi
Braille Catalogue Design: Jane Sellers,
Braille Transcription Services
Audio Description: Tim Hayton
Press Officer: Sarah Newman
Catering: Café Sunlight CIC
Cinematography: Paul Lewis
Photography: Hamish Roberts
Social Media: James Hallam
Contact Us
Telephone: 0333 014 4244
Email: [email protected]
Bookings: [email protected]
Website: www.mamomiinitiative.com
Website: www.dialoguebeyondsight.com