Gaia Redgrave

Image: The Garden #2, Gaia Redgrave. Credit: Zen Redgrave

Gaia is a Visual Artist/Facilitator based in West Wales. Her work is auto-ethnographical and performative, documenting a sensory experience of space, place and time.During a time of deep listening, experiencing and meeting with space, Gaia creates artefacts as the result of the interaction process which often involves fire and water, ritualistic painting or drawing of somatic symbols or the gathering of words.

These artefacts are remnants of the time spent together in ‘conversation’ with a space, which can then be viewed and become the starting point of a new human to human conversation.

As a neurodivergent person, Gaia experiences heightened sensory perception to the nuances of an environment, object or event. The sensory nature of textiles and clothing can bring a sense of safety and comfort.In her textile work, Gaia documents experiences through weaving, embroidery and the creation of clothing, which describes and often transmutes the energy of that time, subsequently constructing a new environment in which to be.

More information about her work can be found here:

Website: www.gaiaredgrave.co.uk

Instagram: @gaiaredgrave

Above Image Credit: The Garden by Gaia Redgrave

Rewilding the Artist

The seeds of Rewilding the Artist were sown in 2020 during Raising the Bar Together (RTBT), an Arts Council Wales funded project, delivered by Gaia in partnership with Mike Layward from DASH Arts and Chris Mooney-Brown from g39. RTBT commissioned four artists with varying lived experiences of disability, to discuss & identify barriers to access while collaborating to discover and create routes through challenges during the creation of new work.

https://www.gaiaredgrave.co.uk/raising-the-bar-together​​​​​​​

Gaia founded Rewilding the Artist in 2021 and joined with Utopias Bach Collective in 2023 to further develop its work, all kindly supported by an Arts Council Wales Lottery Fund

Rewilding the Artist is now fully fledged and is a collaborative process offering spaces for artists, collectives and arts organisations to reimagine access and equity, where radical self-nurturance and authentic joy become the foundation of personal practice, and where rewilded accessibility and kindness becomes the life force of projects and organisations.

Rewilding the Artist has been built with and for neurodivergent and disabled artists, however its alternative thinking and new methods of action provide benefits way beyond its original concept.

Many free and low cost resources are regularly being developed and are available on the website including a series of podcasts.

You can also find updates on Rewilding the Artist on Instagram.

Website: www.rewildingtheartist.co.uk

Instagram: @rewildingtheartist_coc

Podcast links: https://www.rewildingtheartist.co.uk/podcast-1

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Above: Artefact Integrity #1, Gaia Redgrave. Image credit: Zen Redgrave