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In the 90-minute workshop, join Helen Stratford to focus on her definition of access within her art practice, which in the last few years has increasingly responded to her lived experience of a chronic pain condition.
As part of her Public S/Pacing project, Helen spoke with a number of art practitioners to discuss how the conventions around labour, time and space in art practice might be challenged and will share some of those thoughts. To round it off, she will also facilitate a diagramming of what access and work means to each attendee, playfully subverting the productivity-enhancing flowchart for self-reflection.
More about her project Public S/Pacing on which a lot of this talk will be based.
Helen Stratford’s practice spans across architecture, fine art, writing and research. Through performative workshops, site-specific interventions, video, speculative writing, and discursive platforms, they propose ways of challenging spatial prejudices produced at the intersections of social, cultural, economic and political relations. Her work has been developed, presented, performed, and exhibited at international residencies and platforms, including Oslo Architecture Triennale, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, g39 Wysing Arts Centre and RIBA. Helen is also Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
An online meeting link will be automatically shared upon booking.
Find out more about Bloc Projects accessibility here.
This event has been organised by Bloc Projects for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle), Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham). Membership of any of the above organisations automatically makes you part of the Kaleidoscope Network.
Thursday 22 January 2026
6–7.30pm
Free for Kaleidoscope Network Members
This event is accessed remotely online.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
We are proud to be a Gallery of Sanctuary.
