Modest Magic #1, acrylic paint and gessoed paper on folded aluminium sheet, 2022
Moving Worlds is the outcome of an artist residency at the
National Centre for Gaming Disorders.
This body of work is inspired by my experience of the relational dynamics at play in the work of the clinic; reflecting on what it means to prompt or participate in the transformation of perception—to shift the nature of your relation to things.
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During the residency, I led workshops for clients of the clinic where we experimented with creative writing, drawing, and stop-motion animation. These workshops drew connections between the relational and transformational aspects of the clinic’s work, and my own interest in worldbuilding and the speculative realities of science fiction. This inspired the creation of a public resource, Building a World, Starting with Breakfast, which was designed with the support of Family Psychotherapist Alison Smith to be made available to the clinic’s staff and clients.
Modest Magic #2, acrylic paint and gessoed paper on folded aluminium sheet, 2022
In the course of the residency, I came to think of the therapeutic work of the clinic as a “modest magic”—a sensation I wanted to capture in a series of lenticular paintings. These “moving worlds” draw on imagery from the worldbuilding resource, and were conceived as objects to animate the communal spaces in the clinic that staff and clients pass through as they go about their work.
Moving Worlds was created during an artist residency at the National Centre for Gaming Disorders (2022). This project was developed by artist Katriona Beales in collaboration with Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones at the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and supported by Arts Council England. With special thanks to Alison Smith.
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