Accessibility in Artistic Practice with Sarah Browne

In this workshop artist Sarah Browne will share her approach to accessibility in her practice. This will include a presentation of Browne’s recent projects and how she collaborates with access workers effectively on a range of access tools including captions, audio description and alt text to reduce access barriers for disabled audiences.

In the second part of the workshop, she will lead a practical session on how to work collaboratively with access workers to successfully reduce barriers to your projects, followed by exercises focused on the skills and sensibilities required to work through access.

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About the artist

Sarah Browne is an artist with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, often in collaboration with others. In 2024 she is developing The Laughable, a film made in collaboration with disabled comedians. This project is commissioned through Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures, funded by the Wellcome Trust. She is exhibiting Tógaimid ár dteanga le carraigeacha at Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow, until 21 December 2024.

Galway Arts Centre Artist Development Workshops

This series of artist development workshops by Galway Arts Centre are organised by curator and writer Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. They were developed around the artistic concerns of artists living across Galway and the West. Hosted by leading artists, curators and cultural programmers they will focus on access, social engagement and creative grant writing and are designed to provide the skills necessary to making accomplished work today and to avail of vital opportunities. The workshops are for artists at every stage of their career and across visual art disciplines.

These development workshops are funded by Galway Culture Company.