Unseen
With Special Guests
Nic Golightly, Sarah Maple and Rumana Yasmin
Nicola Golightly
With a passion for type, illustration and print, Nic Golightly uses graphic design in the broadest possible way; using it as a motivational tool, a way of bringing smart, fresh ideas to life and to initiate forward thinking. Her work has included the design and delivery of participatory projects, a variety of artist led projects and collaborations. Nic is a Co-Director of arts organisation Navigator North, and a member of blimey! Artist Collective. Working with charity Blue Cabin, Nic is currently undertaking a 3-year residency, collaborating with care-experienced young men in HMP YOI Deerbolt. Her work with care experienced young people has spanned the majority of her creative practice to date.
Rumana Yasmin
Rumana Yasmin is the founder of Bok Bok Books, an independent children's publisher based in Middlesbrough. Bok Bok Books makes children's books with the aim of celebrating underrepresented communities in publishing.
“What matters to us is how we can assemble diverse communities and hear what matters most to them.
Each book is a manifestation of our work with a specific group of people - underrepresented artists, creatives and talent of all kinds, especially mothers and children.
BOK BOK cares about telling the stories of the people we serve, not serving up the misplaced words and numbers of the industry we work in.”
Sarah Maple
Sarah Maple is an award winning multidisciplinary artist known for bold artworks that challenge notions of identity. Her work spans a variety of media such as performance, painting, collage and photography. Much of Maple's inspiration originates from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing as a British-Punjabi. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University and has exhibited her work internationally at galleries and institutions including Tate Britain, Golden Thread Gallery and York Art Gallery. In 2019, she was selected for Syllabus V, an independent learning programme run by Wysing Arts Centre. In 2020, she created a semi-autobiographical video work in the style of a sitcom which debuted on Sky Arts. Her recent commissions include The Decolonising Institute at UAL, New Art Exchange and Fondazione Imago Mundi. Her work is in collections such as Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Soho House and The Hyman Collection. Sarah lives and works in Sussex.
LABOUR OF LOVE, 2022 by Sarah Maple
‘Labour of Love’ is a visual depiction of the 650 times our baby was fed over three months. There are 650 images of myself and my baby, each representing a feed, each with a hand finished element covering my face. The aim is to highlight the sheer volume of work that is expected of mothers and to challenge people to rethink the value of the time spent. I did live performance where I wrote the number of each feed on each individual piece. Raising a child is seen as a female task, not a real job. Thus unpaid and undervalued. Addressing this and rectifying the situation is the unfinished work of feminism."