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Meet the Artist Becky Beasley, Sonia Boué, Pierce Starre and Professor Claire Penketh

25 September 2024 at 18.30–20.00
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Tate Liverpool's new location on Mann Island

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Join us for a panel discussion exploring neurodiversity and its relationship to contemporary art practice

To coincide with Liverpool’s Neurodiversity Arts Festival 2024 artists Becky Beasley, Sonia Boué and Pierce Starre will be in conversation with Claire Penketh, Professor of Disability Studies and Art Education at Hope University. 

The talk will explore how we can rethink contemporary arts practice in relation to neurodiversity and how the neurodiversity paradigm can inform art and its education. The Neurodiversity Arts Festival aims to start a conversation that opens doors, buildings, and minds and showcases the full spectrum of neurodivergent talent.

A photo of Becky Beasley

Becky Beasley. Photo: Emile Holba

A photograph of Sonia Boué

Sonia Boué

A photograph of Pierce Starre

Pierce Starre. Photo: Marcin Sz

Becky Beasley

Becky Beasley is an award-winning visual artist, educator and advocate based in Hastings. She has exhibited widely both at a national and international level.

Her practice spans sculpture, installation and photography to explore the ambiguities of human experience focusing on everyday moments of intensity and private revelation. Often working at the limit of language, her work attempts to describe the deeply private experiences of life and otherness.

Sonia Boué

Sonia Boué is an Oxford based Anglo-Spanish neurodivergent artist. Her practice includes eclectic and also hyper-focused research, collage and photomontage, writing, advocacy, activism, guest lecturing, project work and mentoring. Recent publications include Neurophotoherapy: Playfully Unmasking with Photography and Collage (2023).

Pierce Starre

Pierce Starre is an artist based in Liverpool whose multidisciplinary practice draws from the multifaceted intersections of their cultural experience as a queer, working-class, neurodivergent individual raised by Deaf parents who communicate using British Sign Language. Their practice seeks to initiate opportunities to examine and subvert the prevailing heteronormative and neuronormative societal narratives. Through live performance, objects, text, still and moving images, their work creates immersive experiences that foster connection, reflection, discussion, and transformative possibilities.

Claire Penketh

Claire Penketh is Professor of Disability Studies & Art Education and Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education and author of A History of Disability and Art Education. She has published widely on the topic of disability studies and art education. She is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design Education (NSEAD) and chair of their special interest group on Anti-ableist Pedagogy.

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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Mann Island

Mann Island
Liverpool L3 1BP
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25 September 2024 at 18.30–20.00

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£5 / £3 for Members

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This event is taking place at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Mann Island while our Albert Dock home is closed for redevelopment. Find out more about the transformation project here.

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The logo for the Neurodiversity Arts Festival, which features the letters 'NDAF' underneath 2024. There are colourful shapes surrounding the letters.

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