Amelia Court

I am a mature Chelsea College UAL student, in my graduate year, with a rich and varied background in the creative arts, community work and events work. With a focus on providing safer and more accessible spaces for all, I have used my lived experience with disability to campaign and build spaces where access is at the core. I am developing my professional work within social practice and with communities experiencing difficulties, with an interest in pursuing Arts Psychotherapy.

My practice is defined by an interest in myth, folk art, connections to nature, social practice and community. I returned to education at 29 after a prolonged period of ill health due to disability. I used creative practice to manage symptoms of my disability and have a long history of social activism and volunteer work. My ambition is to help others find their own creative autonomy, joy, community and healing through engaging with creativity practice. I wish to promote national identity and sustainability through our folklore, cultural history, and the creativity of common folks often sidelined.

My work is process-driven. I use foraging, found objects and household recycling to create materials and works; experiment using natural forces in my processes; have unusual methods or ritualistic practices. My work is research led with writing as practice, mixed media and still ever changing in style but at it’s core it looks at what connects us to ourselves and our surroundings.