Project Art Works
Project Art Works collaborates with people with complex support needs, families and circles of support. Our practice intersects art and care, responding to neurodivergence, its gifts and impacts. Challenging paradigms of inclusion, it spans direct practical and holistic support, film, events, projects and exhibitions.
Ellen Prebble, Albatross, 2021
Their studios provide the conditions for a broad range of autonomous and collaborative practices with neurodivergent artists, who take part on their own terms. Alongside the studios, the Support Collective brings together people who care for people with complex support needs where the project shares experience and rights protection through training, resources and advocacy.
Human connection and what it reveals about identity and how we view each other are explored within the project’s work. Their practice continues to respond to the functional and ethical structures of diligence and care, respecting self-determination and privacy whilst working towards a greater visibility and understanding of neurodiversity in culture.
“This year our community of artists, families, caregivers and organisations have contributed to exhibitions and the forming of new collaborations and friendships, all of which will shape and determine much of what happens next for Project Art Works.
It is with huge gratitude that we thank them and our funders for their friendship and generosity in all ways. We are privileged to have such an incredible Project Art Works team – the ones up front and those behind the scenes who hold things steady and are the touchstone of the work. Thank you.
Have a wonderful mid-winter festival. We hope for peace in 2024.”
Kate Adams CEO, Project Art Works
“It’s incredibly important to show this work, particularly in helping to understand other people’s lives. Rather than trying to be distant from one another, let’s have conversations. Inclusion is about having conversations with people. Sometimes they can be challenging and it can be things you don’t want to hear. But actually, being inclusive is about embracing lots of ideologies and maybe meeting together somewhere new and different.”
Comment from an audience member, Lucy, Jack, Gabby Phoenix Art Space, 2023
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