Installations
Night Classes
Set for immersive Theatre Experience by Unfolding Theatre
ARC, Stockton March 2024, UK tour 2025
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Pleasure Imprints
Participatory performance and installation.
Various venues 2023-24
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“We have no monarchs in these trees”
Site- Specific, outdoor, installation, St Mary’s Chapel, Jesmond (UK)
Pleasures Permissions Boundaries"
Exhibition, ExLibris Gallery, Newcastle (UK) Jan 2024
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“Dancing with Paper”,
Site- Specific installation, John Marley Centre, Fenham, (UK)
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Home-rearing (enSHRINE)
The NewBridge Project, Newcastle (UK) April 2023
Residency and exhibition April with Kitt's children inviting people to join them in “Home-rearing”: a series of activities, games and workshops where we are asked to make a ‘home’ which is not just a place, but also a series of cooperative actions.”
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Pleasure Imprints
B-Box, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle (UK) 2023
VAMHN Arts Award Winner
Co-created installation made as part of collaborative project with Dr Tina Sikka and Newcastle University students
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The Good Books
Giant paper installation commissioned by Durham University
Created by Lady Kitt in response to 18-month social art residency at Cosins' Library with artist Sofia Barton.
An explosive wave of bright pink paper bursts from an unused bookshelf, carrying new “good books”, made by and with local communities, down to the heart of the library into a comfy, accessible, playful reading nook with cushions and an invitation for visitors to contribute their own stories
Aesthetica Art Prize 2023, Longlisted
2022
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Temple #1
Paper installation with shrine to queer deities made from recycled plastic bags and lights.
The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
2022
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Our Hive Of Voices
Lage paper shrine installation, housing a wooden decoupaged cabinet containing Story Scrolls celebrating LGBTQ+ history in the Midlands. Part of socially engaged art project "This Our Hive Of Voices"
Commissioned as part of Meeting Point 4 by Arts & Heritage and Warwickshire County Records Office
2022
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SAFEDI enSHRINE
Giant paper installation as part of AHRC funded commission with AXISWEB and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Exploring collaborative craft as a catalyst for organisational policy change relating to disability arts and access
Supported by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead),
2021-22
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Spaces of Consent
A participatory, digital space devised by Lady Kitt
Created in collaboration with Art Matters Now and members of the DGA, as part of “Objects of Consent” an ongoing project initiated in 2019
Supported by Newcastle University, the Gender Research Group (GRG) and by Ampersand Inventions at Orbis
Launch Feb, 2021
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Art Confined- Norfolk Street Arts
Social Making with Social Distance
A socially engaged live-art / craft project conceived and facilitated by Lady Kitt
Produced by Sarah Li
Installation at Norfolk Street Arts
Nov, 2020
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Art Confined- Disconsortia / Star and Shadow
Social Making with Social Distance
A socially engaged live-art / craft project conceived and facilitated by Lady Kitt
Produced by Sarah Li
Installation at Star and Shadow Cinema (Newcastle (UK) commissioned by disabled artist led consortium Disconsortia
July, 2020
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AXIS Residency
North Shields (UK) supported through AXIS Vacant Space programme and a commission with Norfolk Street Arts
Sept-Oct 2020
Installation experiments: working with giant sheets of recycled paper, bank notes and LED lights
Techniques include origami, kirigami and wet paper folding
Sept-Oct, 2020
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Burned Bright
A socially engaged commission by
Thought Foundation, Birtley ,UK
as part of CRAFT,
Feb-April, 2020
Creating a giant paper installation (a collaboratively made, Joss inspired shrine to endangered animals and disappearing environments), followed by ceremonial paper burning. Click image for link to more info.
Folded Stories
A socially engaged commission by
The Bowes Centre as part of the
#Untitled10 project at Bowes
2019
Queer-ing the museum collection through collaborative making and paper installation including human sized, hand cut paper chain of Sapphos
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