Meet the team

Artist

In 2014 at the age of 20, Amy collapsed from a brain haemorrhage whilst working and living in Sardinia. Amy is producing a series of artworks based on her own visual experience.

Retired Mathematical Software Designer & Project Manager

I am interested as to what others think my world is and then contrasting this to what others see. I love images and spend a lot of my life dreaming!

Partially sighted Braille artist

Previously a dental model maker, I am now a Braille artist who creates pieces of art based on Braille.

Artist

Elizabeth is creating a series of artworks to represent her experience of her brain haemorrhage. She is also teaming up with Lindsey Whitelaw.

Printmaker & arts facilitator

I hope by participating in this exhibition, we can educate and raise awareness about sight loss, how broad and varied it is, that everyone has a unique perspective.

Partially sighted artist

I am a painter who creates pieces of work about the visual experience of two eyes and then with my damaged eye painting the same subject.

Life Coach

I work with people with sight loss and hidden disabilities teaching them life skills they can adapt in everyday life.

Retired, former Journalist

I was a journalist on the Financial Times for nearly 25 years, until I took voluntary redundancy in 2005, owing partly to sight loss. I could no longer see to do the job I had loved. I am training to be an icon painter.

Painter and landscape architect

Lindsey created a series of artwork. She collaborated with a number of team-members who are visually impaired. She sent each person her work and then painted their response to the work.

Journalist and writer

I think art is a fantastic tool to help people conceptualise blindness a little differently. Sight loss is a spectrum, and we should celebrate the diversity of viewpoints within the visually impaired community.

PT for Creative & Cultural Skills

I've actually found it quite therapeutic doing the drawings and showing one or two friends & family what has happened/is happening to my vision.

Retired Automobile Engineer, Writer & Volunteer

I am very interested in this exhibition and hope to better understand how other visually impaired people access art, and I hope to contribute something

Holistic Therapist

I have been visually impaired all of my life and lost my sight after two accidents, the second of which happened in 2018 and pressed reset on many aspects of my life but one thing that remained was my creativity.

Retired Visual Charity Worker

In my prose I hoped to convey something of the use of senses other than the more obvious examples. such as the sound of a ticking clock, wind chimes or traffic which all help my orientation in the environment.

Sound Artist

I’m excited to have new conversations about the importance and artistic capability of sound, and hear from people with visual impairment about their unique experience of the world.

Local Sight Loss Charity Volunteer

I have learnt over the past 7 years that the eye is so very complex and that even people with the same eye condition see in very different ways. Being able to show people what it’s like to see through my eyes using a creative means I find very exciting.