BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10437@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20250309 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20250401 DTSTAMP:20250227T163736Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/sefton-park-palm-house-ddfi40-pi mp-my-wheelchair-exhibition/ SUMMARY:Sefton Park Palm House: Sefton Park Palm House: DDFI40: Pimp My Whe elchair Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Commissioned to create new work for DaDaFest International 40\, responding to the theme of ‘Rage’\, artists Faith Bebbington and Dr J anet Price launch ‘Pimp my Wheelchair’. Faith and Janet are ‘pimping up’ our prosthetics\, dressing up crutches\, wheelchairs\, hearing aids (and more) with sculptures inspired by plants that use defence mechanisms to express rage against attack. From the thorn that pricks\, to plants wi th leaves that close against touch\, the new sculptures celebrate their ch allenge to ableism in the world.\nA sculptural installation amongst the pl ants at Sefton Park Palm House\, featuring a series of new sculptures crea ted by Faith Bebbington in collaboration with Janet Price will be availabl e to view throughout the festival month. The plant inspired sculptures uti lise a range of mobility aids combined with 3D elements created with waste materials.\nAccess: For venue access information\, click here https://p almhouse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Accessibility-statement-2023.pd f  \nThere will be elements of pre-recorded Audio Description available  and supporting audio information. \n\nCost: FREE \n\nBooking Info: No need to book to view the sculptures. Simply pop in during Sefton Park Pal m House opening hours.  Booking will be required for the launch of this exhibition on March 9th\, details coming soon. Visit our website for more details. \nAbout Faith Bebbington\nFaith's artistic practice initially s temmed from having cerebral palsy\, a disability that made her curious abo ut how people and animals move. Faith explores this through figurative scu lptures playing with balance\, the process of falling\, and capturing sequ ences of movement whether human or animal. In 2014 Faith's artistic perspe ctive shifted radically after surviving ‘terminal’ cancer! Faith stopp ed working with fibreglass resin as her main medium and focused on more su stainable\, environmentally friendly ways of working\, particularly re-usi ng plastics by breaking the component parts down to then reconstruct them. \nFaith studied sculpture at Winchester College of Art\, set up a Liverpoo l studio in 1993 and now works across the UK creating recycled public artw orks and exhibiting sculpture. Faith's clients across the UK include Veoli a\, ITV Wembley.\nDr Sandra Hiett described Faith's approach saying “Fai th's practice as an artist has embodied authentic and deep rooted commitme nt to celebrating her sense of self\, with sustainability\, disability\, g ender and social justice at the heart of her practice. As an artist workin g with community groups\, schools and cultural organisations\, Faith gives voice to people who are often unheard...”\nAbout Dr Janet Price\nDr Jan et Price is a disabled queer feminist\, based in Liverpool\, UK with links to Taranaki\, New Zealand. Janet is an activist and writer\, who has a co mmitment to using art as a way of building intersectional connections and communities across disability\, gender\, sexuality\, race &\; class.\nJ anet’s love of art and commitment to activism led her to become a member of the board of DaDaFest until 2023 where she built a strong commitment t o and understanding of access in Disability Arts. Whilst there\, Janet als o worked with previous Chief Exec Ruth Gould to organise a visit of UK Dis ability artists with a coalition of disability artists/activists in India/ South Asia.\nOver many years\, Janet has been interested in and worked wit h textiles\, creating fibre art pieces that relate to the depths of our na tural world. Increasingly Janet draws upon the history and reworking of ol d textiles\, looking to their origins in the wild and to colonial impacts upon fibre production\, drawn to fibre art that challenges the injustice o f power and its intersectional unwrapping.\nJanet sees art as a primary ro ute towards community\, to new ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Disability\, race\, gender/sexuality\, class and nature are at the centre of the disruption our perspectives need\, and social justice is whe re we will find our answers.\n\nAbout DaDa \nDaDa is an award winning and pioneering disability arts organisation based in Liverpool with internati onal reach and impact. Founded in 1984\, we were one of the first disabili ty-led arts organisations in the UK and an integral part of the campaign f or greater equality and access for disabled artists across the arts sector .\nAbout DDFI40\nDaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to cel ebrate DaDa's 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.\nDDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captur es all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage\, to overt injustice and activism\, DDFI40 will explore dis ability rights\, disability arts\, access\, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an e xplosion of creativity. 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