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Elizabeth Wewiora

Manchester
I am a practitioner with 15 years experience in the sector as an artist, curator, creative producer and educator. I specialise in delivering and commissioning socially engaged projects.
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I am a visual artist, curator-producer and educator, specialising over the past 15 years on socially engaged approaches to practice. I create art projects in this way, as I am interested in work which explores ethics of care and how collective creative experiences can promote positive social change. Regardless of which creative hat I am wearing, I employ participatory and collaborative methods of making with local communities, to ensure multiple voices are represented within the work.

I work mostly in photography but am interested in the expanded notions of what the medium can be, often playing with alternative processes, such as lumen printing, cyanotypes or photo-collage. Often photography is the starting point as I find the medium particularly accessible for others to engage in. Depending on how the collaborative process of making develops, however, works may develop into textiles, installations, text works, moving image or publications.

Often my work takes place outside of the gallery context, working on short and long term residency across a range of settings from health and social care to youth, justice, social housing, learning and environmental settings. Commissions have included projects with organisations such as Allotment Society UK, NHS England, Centre Point, CCA Glasgow, AA2A residency, Open Eye Gallery, Museum of Liverpool, Age UK and Manchester Histories.

I am currently developing more sustainable and regenerative approaches to my photographic arts practice, motivated not only by the climate emergency we find ourselves within, but also since becoming a mother and being hyper aware of what we are leaving behind for the next generation. To support this transition, I have undertaken both the Redeye Photography Network’s Climate Aware Course and Permaculture and Participatory Design Accredited Course but am actively looking to develop this area of my work further.

I am also studying a part time PHD at the University of Salford, exploring the potential of socially engaged approaches to engagement between cultural sectors and higher education where I hope to bring all aspects of my practice together.

 

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