Joanne will be showing her process based on a set of objects. If anyone would like to work alongside the artist during the talk please have a pencil, any colour, paper, any type, and three or four small objects ready to work with.

For her talk Joanne has been inspired by Bethlem artists and artists on Hospital Room’s Digital Art School.  
 

“As an autistic artist I use my particular sensory and synaesthetic understanding to challenge the idea of a hierarchy of social imagining and the perception and reality of autistic incarceration and trauma.”

Joanne Barrett is a ceramicist, weaver and writer. Without a formal art school education and as a late-entry artist her work sits within the Outsider art movement. She has an acute sensitivity to texture and colour where meaning and form are secondary processes. She uses drawing, painting, text and printmaking as part of her explorations and is drawn to the haptic in textiles, clay and a range of media.