Gill Crawshaw

Activist-curator-crip. Disability arts, disability rights, textiles, & history mashed together in ‘Any work that wanted doing’ & other projects. She/her

[DisabilityArtsOnline @disabilityarts]

🖼️ @ShoddyArts has been delving into Audrey Barker's archive at NDACA, the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive at Buckinghamshire New University.

https://t.co/30bDeyX1dS

[Art Data @ArtdataLondon]

Rights Not Charity: Protest Textiles and Disability Activism

by Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts

from @commonthreadspress

The new publication from Common Threads Press, looking at how textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history, available now.

[DisabilityArtsOnline @disabilityarts]

Gill Crawshaw (@ShoddyArts) presents Any Work That Wanted Doing, a new exhibition that seeks to tell the stories of disabled mill workers.

https://t.co/ly9tkn7USU

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

Great turnout yesterday for #MillingAround, a walk & talk by @LeedsTours that showed sites of textile industry in Holbeck. Disabled people, many disabled by factory work, worked here alongside others in harsh conditions. Thanks to @Lucinday of CEG for hosting. #HeritageOpenDays

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@museums_yvonne Thanks for all the support from museum staff, it’s been a great partnership! More info about all the artworks and background to #AnyWorkThatWantedDoing , incl audio and BSL, at https://t.co/stQwGCv2cx

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

So pleased you enjoyed #AnyWorkThatWantedDoing !

[Ellen Hunter @elnhunter]

Lovely to be at Leeds Industrial Museum for the launch of Any Work That Wanted Doing this evening. Amazing artworks by disabled artists created in response to the #HiddenStories of disabled mill workers.

A @HeritageFundNOR supported project via @LEEDS_2023

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@lucyajmmoore @LeedsCivicTrust @LeedsMuseums @LEEDS_2023 I think Ria has made some prints, I’ll find out…

[Lucy Moore @lucyajmmoore]

I am so excited to see #AnyWorkThatWantedDoing launch! Curated by @ShoddyArts it's a really beautiful series of works by disabled artists responding to histories of disabled mill workers 🦻🪻🏙️

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

#AnyWorkThatWantedDoing exhibition open from tomorrow, Leeds Industrial Museum, bringing together disabled voices past & present. Part of @LEEDS_2023 supported by @HeritageFundUK. For @heritageopenday there are FREE tours of the exhibition all next week https://t.co/W8GjLwJNS0

[Emma Bolland @emmaZbolland]

This Thursday, starting 6pm prompt (but come before for a look-see & a beer...) feat. artists, writers, curators, & disability activists RosieBlackburn, @ShoddyArts, @generalistjo, @LongbarrowPress, @rachelartsmith, @mickmodern, Phil Waterworth, & me.
https://t.co/zmqSB4F4wf

[Longbarrow Press @LongbarrowPress]

Speaking Architectures: an informal evening of readings of creative & critical writing by artists, writers & curators inc @emmaZbolland @rachelartsmith @generalistjo @ShoddyArts.

Old Post Office Building, Sheffield, Thur 3 August. Free, all welcome. Info: https://t.co/X2uApTO1zJ

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@emmaZbolland @PHMMcr @LeedsCityMuseum @weareunltd Don’t worry, I will!

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

This month I’ll be out & about distributing A Handsome Testimonial, #DisabilityHistory #zine. @PHMMcr 8/7; Copy That! zine fest Leeds 15/7; Make a Zine Day at @LeedsCityMuseum 22/7. Looking forward to conversations. Thanks for funding @weareunltd #HiddenHistories #DisHist

[DisabilityArtsOnline @disabilityarts]

📖 @ShoddyArts introduces A Handsome Testimonial, a zine documenting the instrumental role that deaf and disabled Mill-workers played in campaigns for factory reform.

https://t.co/azoA0DNpYg

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@bookelf_ceri @BishopsgateInst Its a pleasure! I’m really pleased that there’s a copy at Bishopgate Institution 😀 #EverydayLives #HiddenHistories

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@JanineSykes13 @weareunltd It’s on its way to you at @AHHuddersfield , Janine. If you want any copies for the library etc, let me know x

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

A Handsome testimonial, a zine about James Scott, a 19th century Deaf mill worker from Horbury, is out! Also available https://t.co/QKrJDTndrG and as large print text only pdf. Thanks to @weareunltd for funding. Message me for a copy #HiddenHistories #DisabledPeoplesHistory

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@DamienMRobinson @weareunltd This is great, Damien, definite overlap. My current project for @LEEDS_2023 is #AnyWorkThatWantedDoing, commissioning disabled artists to respond to my research on Deaf & disabled mill workers. I’ll email you. Message me your address for zine

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@nataliewalton78 @weareunltd @WovenInKirklees That would be excellent, Natalie. I’ll be in Hudds in a couple of weeks, so I can deliver

[Gill Crawshaw @ShoddyArts]

@cwellesleysmith @nataliewalton78 @weareunltd I’d love to send you a copy, Claire! Send me a message with your address 😀