By Liam O’Dell When it comes to creating a work of performance art, sometimes it can be helpful to start with an image – and that image doesn’t have to be your typical, two-dimensional kind, either. Martin O’Brien is an artist who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and in his work, he challenges the common representation…
Social Media, Promotion, Networking and PR
As a writer working across forms – drama, fiction, non-fiction; not to mention non-writing work like speaking engagements, facilitation, and other things that occupy some kind of nebulous “creative” space but aren’t clearly defined or definable – as this kind of jack-of-all-trades creative, it’s sometimes really hard to tell people about what I do. I…
Creative Captioning
My first blog for CRIPtic was on audio description and how it can be used as a creative tool; I left feeling energised and inspired to create work which truly integrates audio description, which treats accessibility as a consideration of equal importance to plot, language, and form. I felt similarly after the creative captioning workshop…
3 resources to help you integrate British Sign Language into your performance
It’s one thing providing access; it’s another embedding it into your performance. In the case of British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation, artists are finding creative ways to integrate sign language into an act, rather than have an interpreter sit awkwardly at the side of the stage. In our latest CRIPtic workshop, Deaf actor David Ellington…
Introducing Rylan Gleave
What made you want to be an artist / performer? I suppose my flair for the dramatic! I trained as a singer before studying as a composer, then my voice began to gradually creep back into my work. What/who inspires your craft? Much of my work addresses both the personal and political, stemming from a…
Introducing Rufus Isabel Elliot
What made you want to be an artist / performer? I don’t really know how to answer this question. I love music, but struggled a lot with performing before I got into the more composing and writing side of things. I had a brilliant A Level teacher who taught me that it was okay to…
Introducing Tom Ryalls
What made you want to be an artist / performer? I decided to do GCSE drama because I thought I fancied a girl in the class, turns out it was in that class I realised I was gay. I didn’t find a girlfriend but I did find a space in which we were given permission…
Introducing Miss Jacqui
What made you want to be an artist / performer? I’ve always been creative and I wasn’t always sure I could be an artist/performer because I never saw anyone who looked like me do what I wanted to do. I guess I stopped wait for someone else to be the first and jumped in. I…
Introducing Oli Isaac
Oli Isaac What made you want to be an artist / performer? It was always lingering at the back of my head, but I could never decide whether I wanted to be a poet, or film-maker, or novelist, or theatre-maker (and I still don’t). It wasn’t until I got onto development programmes at places like…
Introducing Bibi June
Bibi June What made you want to be an artist / performer? I’m an artist because it brings me joy: to make art, to be creative, and to share that art with others. I love stories and storytelling, and that’s why I started out doing performance poetry. Over time, that love for stories has developed…