NEWS RELEASE ISSUED: 31/01/2023 Lucy, Jack, Gabby Phoenix Art Space, Brighton 4th March – 23rd April 2023 Project Art Works and Phoenix Art Space present the process of three emerging neurodivergent artists in a forthcoming exhibition ‘Lucy, Jack, Gabby’. All members of Project Art Works in Hastings, the three artists’ work is united by careful and often meticulous practices of collecting, researching and reimagining. Mining rich seams ranging from popular culture to natural history, the artists’ practices reveal something about the unique way in which each of them, and us, see the world.

This Friday 27th January the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation will be hosting a Culture and Participation Conference in Lisbon Portugal. Joining the programme Patricia Finnegan, Annis Joslin and Kate Adams (joining remotely) from Project Art Works discuss mental health and neurodiversity. Images left to right: Patricia Finnegan, Annis Joslin and Kate Adams You can watch the conference live here gulbenkian.pt. The programme is as follows: 10:30 / Welcome Martin Essayan – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Ignasi Miró – “la Caixa” Foundation

OUTSIDE IN’S NATIONAL OPEN EXHIBITION FIRST PRIZE IS AWARDED TO PROJECT ART WORKS ARTIST AT SOTHEBY’S NEW BOND STREET ‘Old Bands’ by Michelle Roberts selected by Bob & Roberta Smith with the prize of a solo exhibition in 2024. First prize winner ‘Old Bands’ by Michelle Roberts A painting by Hastings-based artist Michelle Roberts scooped first prize at the awards ceremony for charity Outside In’s national open exhibition, ‘Humanity’, which presents the work of 80 artists facing significant barriers to the art world and is on show at Sotheby’s New Bond Street until 27th January.

You might spot some familiar faces on the publicity for the London Short Film Festival. Posters show stills from a new film by Andrew Kötting, Eden Kötting’s father, and include Eden, Neville Jermyn and Michelle Roberts. A trailer of the film is being used to promote the festival. The festival asked filmmaker Andrew Kötting to make this year’s festival trailer, harking back to the first ever LSFF where he performed a ‘remix’ of his film Gallivant.

Michelle Roberts has been awarded first prize at Outside In‘s national open exhibition, Humanity. “I really wanted to see more of this work and I really thought about is there the body of work to give a one person show to. But I looked at this work and knew that there would be lots of really wonderful work. I think that if you had been asked to do this, many of you would have made the same choice because it is an absolutely beautiful painting.

In November 2022, Project Art Works held the Explorers 2022 Event at Tate Liverpool supported by the Plus Tate Network and the Explorers Project partners. The Explorers Event brought together national conversations about how cultural institutions can evolve into more caring and inclusive spaces. The event embraced agency in art, systems of care and different artist development practices. The event set out to be non-didactic and accessible and to include a majority of contributors with lived experience of disability, neurodivergence or as caregivers.