The group talked about how the whole project and how CAST enables them to be part of this group, a group that welcomes all, where difference is embraced and experience is essential.
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We focused on our hands together. Almost a performance, or a dance! This group was about listening, reflecting and meeting in the middle. It reflects the group, the togetherness that projects like this form.
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The hands span generations in the group, as well as a grandmother, mother and granddaughter.This group like this project champions intergenerational connection.
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The hands to me recreate the care and connection of the group.
Joanne Coates
Joanne Coates is a working class visual artist using the medium of photography. She lives and works across the North East of England. Her work explores rurality, hidden histories, and inequalities relating to low income through photography, installations, and audio. Using photography to question stories around power, identity, wealth, and poverty, Joanne was first educated in working-class communities, and then at London College of Communication (BA Hons Photography). Participation and working with communities are an important aspect of her work. She is deeply attached to places, the memories they hold and the people who inhabit them. Her work is often made from a lived experience perspective touching on class, disability and gender.
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