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Occupational Therapy, Power, and Possibility - An Interview with Ione Georgakis

A photo of Ione a Ione is a white Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes and large round glasses. On a digital drawn background made up of colourful shapes overlayed with each other. The text reads Occupational Therapy, power and possibility in white capital letters.

At several key moments in my life, Occupational Therapists (OTs) have suggested tools or approaches that have transformed what I’ve considered possible. Occupational Therapy has a lot to offer those of us with tics and Tourettes, but this is often underappreciated and underutilised, so I sat down with Ione Georgakis, an Occupational Therapist with Tourettes, to talk all things OT.…

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Solidarity Round-Up - Katie Goldfinch

3^rd May 2022

Katie, a white person in her early twenties, is standing in front of a bright orange wall with a colourful monkey painted on it. Katie has pastel pink hair and is wearing a bright purple dress with yellow tights. She is smiling.

I started working for Touretteshero just over a year ago. It’s been a busy and exciting time, but also an unusual one – because until a few weeks ago I’d never met any of the Touretteshero team in person! Now, though, I’m sat on the sofa in our lovely new office, where most of us work together.…

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Urban Art Stockwell - Born 2B Different

12^th February 2022

A collage of 5 images of Anton, AKA Born2bDifferent, working on his project for the Young Artists Development Programme. Anton is a black teenager wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts, an Adidas baseball cap and white headphones over the top. In the images, he’s at different parts of a brightly coloured and heavily graffitied skate park, using his iPad to take pictures and videos of the area. It’s a sunny day. Some shots are wide shots, where you can see buildings in the background, and others are close-ups of Anton next to the colourful walls. In one of them, he is sitting on some steps in the shade and is concentrating on his iPad.

Today is Global Movie Day, which makes it an appropriate time to share a film made by talented young artist and film maker Anton (AKA Born 2B Different). I’ve known Anton for years and it’s been a joy to see his creative work develop and grow.…

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Introducing Tickles - Maria Bradley

3^rd December 2021

A digital drawing by Maria Bradley of Tickles Her Tourettes Monster. A purple monster with blue spots and big round black eyes sits in the centre of the image with it's arms outstretched. The background is an opaque pink pattern with gold glitter and black lightning style strokes.

As you probably know, for the last couple of months we’ve been sharing the ideas and creative projects of artists supported by our Young Artist Development Programme. Today it’s the turn of Maria Bradley whose playful illustrations and insightful words communicate her experiences of tics – let’s meet Maria and tickles.…

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Transforming The Narrative - Sorcha Pringle

26^th November 2021

Over the last two months we’ve been sharing the work and reflections of creatives supported by our Young Artist Development Programme. This week it’s over to musician and writer Sorcha Pringle.

Hello, my name is Sorcha and I’m a disabled creative activist, community musician, composer, and access consultant based in Dundee.…

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Freak - Emily Heather Bower

19^th November 2021

The word Freak is written in large black lettering across the top of the page in ink. The background is white. There is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl in the centre of the page. She has wild brown curly hair that is shoulder length. She is white and has green eyes. She is wearing a vest and underwear set. The vest and underwear set are a dusky pink with a pink lace trim at the top. There is a white cartoon cat on her vest, bellow the cat her vest says ‘Kitty kat. On the top left corner of her knickers there is a small white cartoon cat head. The drawing of the girl is outlined with black fine line pen and coloured with watercolour pencils. Along the bottom of the page, it says ‘By Emily Heather Bower’ in bold black ink.

For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing guest posts by creatives supported by our Young Artists Development Programme (YADP). This week we’re showcasing Emily Heather Bower’s poems and images which she’s collated into a powerful zine. Emily takes us through the process.…

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Catfish - Liam Burke

12^th November 2021

A digital freehand block-colour drawing of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, which is sitting upon some dark green grass. The hotel is a Victorian building with at least 7 floors, with domes and turrets on the roof. It is drawn with a long yellow ground floor, with arched doorways and long rectangular windows. The two floors above it are much shorter, and are brown with small square and arched windows. Above this are two more floors coloured beige, which each have a series of long windows running next to each other. One of these sets of windows is coloured blue, the other is white. The two floors above these - the tallest two floors of the building - are beige, with tall windows of various shapes, with dark orange external framing. The roof is a dark green and black.

For today’s post we head to Scarborough where visual artist Liam Burke’s been working on a series of colourful digital drawings. Liam’s one of the ten artists we’ve supported to explore their ideas in our Young Artist Development Programme.

Liam tells us more about the buildings of Scarborough, the drawings they’ve inspired and his experience of exhibiting a piece of work at a gallery.…

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Rising - Helena Ascough

5^th November 2021

Over the last month we’ve been sharing a weekly guest post from one of the young creatives supported by our Young Artists Development Programme. This week’s spotlight is on poet Helena Ascough. So over to you, Helena:

Poetry is a huge love of mine.…

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My Social Art - Beth Greenwood

29^th October 2021

Multiple motor tic – A black and white image of a white girl with dark hair and a dark t shirt on, doing multiple motor tics. She has her eyes scrunched closed, her mouth slightly open, her head tilted slightly back and her shoulders hunched. There are illustrations on the image. On her eyelids there are three orange arrows on each eye pointing downwards. On her lip there is a blue arrow curving downwards. On her neck there are yellow arrows facing towards her head.

Guest posts from the amazing creatives, supported by our Young Artist Development Programme (YADP), continue, and this week’s spotlight is on Beth Greenwood. Over to you Beth.

Most often, the type of art that inspires me isn’t displayed in galleries or in a physical place.…

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After a dream - Rylan Gleave

22^nd October 2021

I’m delighted to share another guest post with you – this week it’s from artist Rylan Gleave who took part in our first Young Artists Development Programme. Over to Rylan.

About 6 or 7 years ago, I went to an ex-boyfriend’s house to help him out with a recording project, as a singer.…

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Guest Posts

Occupational Therapy, Power, and Possibility - An Interview with Ione Georgakis

Solidarity Round-Up - Katie Goldfinch

Urban Art Stockwell - Born 2B Different

Introducing Tickles - Maria Bradley

Transforming The Narrative - Sorcha Pringle

Freak - Emily Heather Bower

Catfish - Liam Burke

Rising - Helena Ascough

My Social Art - Beth Greenwood

After a dream - Rylan Gleave

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