<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">HI all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been working on this immersive project all year and its nearly ready for exhibition (in-person):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">INTER/ her</b><i style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9px;" class=""> </span>- </b>intimate journey inside the female reproductive system</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">An immersive installation and Virtual Reality artwork focussed on post-reproductive diseases and pain over 40's women experience: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The sensory and emotional experience moving from the outside in within a real dome space into VR space, with a 3D audio soundscape of the voices and stories of real women recounting their experiences, making it an intimate, emotional and possibly haunting experience, with accompanying wearable haptic garment providing a visceral vibration responsive experience on the lower abdomen, where the various diseases occur.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">INTER/her</b> is based on my own experience and journey
through the healthcare system(in the UK) while I was treated for a post-reproductive
disease in 2016. The ideas and development of the work emanates from
experiencing women’s silence, conflicting information, and inconsistencies in support
for women’s health. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;" class="">From my own experience in fighting – and winning – against ovarian cancer throughout 2016 – 2017, t</span></font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">his intense battle gave me the imperative to make something personal through my art practice; to give something back to other women, based upon my own experiences and journey through the healthcare system.</span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">The seed grew from silence, inconsistent information, and
minimal support for women’s health, then became inspired by stories I began to
hear from friends and family. Stories that seemed to be hidden or kept secret
until I opened up about my own experiences.</span></p><div class="">See also work-in-progress version of a trailer/ walk-through in this Virtual Exhibition curated by Art in Flux in London with support by National Gallery X <a href="https://www.artinfluxlondon.com/reclaimed-exhibition.html" class="">https://www.artinfluxlondon.com/reclaimed-exhibition.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and another more progressed trailer here <a href="https://vimeo.com/515731933" class="">https://vimeo.com/515731933</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Exhibition dates of the final version and other information is on the <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">website:<i style="font-size: small;" class=""> </i></span><a href="https://inter-her.art/" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">inter-her.art/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bio attached.</div></div></body></html>