alabamathirteen

(b. 1973 Leeds, UK)

alabamathirteen is an artist from Leeds who is based in Leeds and Wakefield. Drawing on her own experience as a disabled, neurodivergent, working class woman, her work explores how we exist in our bodies, spaces and places. Using photography, moving image, sound and embroidery, she offers a glimpse at her complex and frustrating relationship with an outside world from which she is increasingly disconnected, isolated and excluded.

Her work with camera-less and unfixed photographic processes challenges our preconceptions about the truth and permanence of images, mimicking the transient nature of our own existence and identity, and the almost imperceptible traces of ourselves that we leave behind. Her practice is informed by process-based research and experimentation, developing a more sustainable approach to creating work, and a desire to contribute to diverse and inclusive narratives around disability.

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