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Ann Whitehurst
Ann Whitehurst is an artist who likes to work in various media - digital, installation, text, painting, fabric, performance and so on. She’s had mixed media commissions in various galleries including the Laing, the Barbican Centre and the Bluecoat Gallery. Her film Denial has been shown in Europe, US and Japan. She is a fellow of the Arts Foundation. As a leading Disability Artist for 25 years, she explored and developed the theory of Disability Art as a transformative analysis of normality and difference. She is re-evaluating her own history of art as a disabled, working class, older woman creator and thinker.
Anne has been shortlisted by Magic Hour with the project Rescuing Darkness.
Rescuing Darkness
An animation telling the story of a young disabled woman, Chloe, and her search to find a place of darkness to escape the bright, examining light of being medically examined and medically understood since she was born. Everywhere is flooded with electric light. Her family love lights, except her grandmother but she dies. When Chloe finds her own place, lit only by firelight, and candles, she rests. However, she and the darkness are soon under threat from the development of an airport runway and the lights used to continue its construction at night. Her rescuers are talking cockroaches, led by Ruby, who bite through the cables. Once darkness is restored, Ruby suggests a party so they can get to know one another because they've not met many humans who glorify in darkness as they do.
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