Rachel Gadsden-Hayton & Jeremy Hawkes

Statement

Rachel Gadsden (UK) and Jeremy Hawkes (Australia) have engaged in a sustained, five-year collaborative artistic practice centred on drawing, through which they critically examine and articulate their respective lived experiences of medical disability. Their work is shaped by the particularities of their conditions, and is further informed by the embodied, expressive, and dialogic dimensions inherent in co-creative methodologies. 

Bio

Rachel Gadsden - Hayton UK is a visual and performance artist, disability culture activist and current PhD researcher at Loughborough University.  Rachel exhibits and performs her artwork nationally and internationally, at the core of her practice and research are concerns as to how humankind comes to terms with mortality: by unearthing the unseen, making the invisible visible. 

Bio

Jeremy Hawkes is a multidisciplinary Australian artist, writer, and disability advocate whose practice spans three decades. Based between Brisbane and the Northern Rivers, he works across drawing, painting, performance, and digital media. His art is deeply informed by his lived experience of disability, particularly a spinal condition, and often explores themes of corporeality, identity, and the body as a site of transformation and resistance