‘NO CRY FOR HELP IS LOUD ENOUGH’ Community Exhibition and Launch Event

NO CRY FOR HELP IS LOUD ENOUGH

1.00-2.00pm

Benedict Phillips (artist) and Briony Martin (Lotus links founder)

An introduction to the processes that brought this project into being. The experiences and inspiration that built the Lotus links community, and shaped this process. Followed by a Q & A.

2:00-4:00pm

Community exhibition & launch

Join the artist and community to explore the exhibition. Light refreshments and a separate quiet safe space will be available throughout the day in Henry Moore lecture theatre.

Exhibition description:

NO CRY FOR HELP IS LOUD ENOUGH

An installation of Photography and text made through a collaboration between Artist & Curator Benedict Phillips and the Lotus Links Peer Support community. Exploring and expressing deeply personal and emotive shared experiences of Neurodivergence in conflict with institutional processes and thinking.

This work involves considerable personal investment, discussing, exploring and finding different ways to express what is often left unsaid in public spaces and finding a way to communicate this through Art.

This work comes from a desire to tell stories in response to what has happened in the past and what is happening right now in people's lives. It explores emotive lived experience through ideas of activism, performance, poetry and photography with a clear intention to be a provocation, and to open up a debate around the hierarchy and relationships between institutions and their policies and the individual. Highlighting the impact on parents and their children who find themselves living in conflict with the normative and ableism of our world all around them.