It Takes a Village
With special guests Miki Rogers, Ree Kirkbride and Aimee Charlotte
Miki Rogers
I’m a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator, creating and using shared making as a way to build community and give myself and others a voice. Over the years I’ve created festivals, curated projects, worked in collaboration with and set up groups including Women’s and Activism groups, with male prisoners, newly arrived people and transgender young people. I’ve been known to speak at activist events and workshops about feminist issues, ableism, racism and sizeism.
I’m interested in how work with our local communities using culture and creativity can enable social change, and my own practice includes making work that’s accessible but speaks what interests me ..celebrating diversity, the people I admire, my cultural history plus exploring my own physical disability and neurodivergent brain. My work can be illustration, installations or banner making, but normally has something to say.
Ree Kirkbride
Ree is a creative producer and project manager working in the North East. Currently, Ree works with photographer Michael Sreenan as his studio manager, but as a freelancer, works on other projects across the region too whilst navigating life as a mum.
After being made redundant at 7 months pregnant in a global pandemic, Ree is interested in exploring what it takes to thrive when your foundations are shaken up.
Aimee Charlotte
An emerging contemporary visual artist based in the North East; Aimee Charlotte explores our shared culture through painting and illustration, both traditional and digital. Her work combines themes of psychology and mythology with popular imagery, as well as drawing from the post-industrial landscape and the working-class culture of the North East. Aimee’s work is laced with narrative, symbolism and dark humour, presented in a colourful and surrealist style. Aimee is currently based in Middlesbrough, at Dundas House Studios.