Elizabeth Wewiora
I am an artist, curator-producer and educator and through all of my projects actively seek out to instigate collaborative projects that support and promote social change. Most of my work takes place outside of the gallery, working on short and long term residency projects, across health, social housing, justice, learning, heritage and environmental settings.
I have been working in collaboration with the Many Hands Craft Collective (an over60s group based at Victoria Square, Ancoats) for the past six years. Together we have explored arts and craft as an activist tool for the creative agency of older communities. Between 2016-2018 the group also collaborated with me on a Masters by Research project exploring the role of photography as a socially engaged arts practice.
I work mostly in photography and video, but am interested in the expanded notions of what photography can be, playing with traditional or alternative materials to produce work. My work often focuses on the representation of local communities, reflecting on society at points of loss or change, working in socially engaged ways, to collaborate with the individuals & communities who make up each specific place. Together we can question how a co-authored and co-produced approach to practice creates greater narratives and representations of society.