Two Women. One Seated, One Standing. 2018 Susan Merrick and Barbara Touati-Evans
Melissa Mostyn has enjoyed a portfolio career as an artist, writer and film-maker for over twenty years, adopting a variety of roles for Shape, Maverick Television, Disability Arts Online, Deafnitely Theatre, Architecture Week South- East, Tate and V&A. Before having children, for five years Melissa led a groundbreaking Deaf visual art project, Salon, funded by Arts Council England and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, and had journalism published in The Independent, Esquire and Vogue. Since becoming a parent Melissa has committed herself to empowering others through her work, particularly Deaf women. She has presented in BSL for DeafHope, Women’s Aid, NHS Safeguarding and the British Society for Mental Health and Deafness, and published an e-book, My Daughter and I. Melissa’s last film, listen, even when your heart is crying (2014), was Official Selection for Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015 and Best Documentary nominee in the CINEDEAF Awards 2015.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Debrief 2018 Susan Merrick and Melissa Mostyn – Performance and Film
Two Women. One Seated, One Standing. 2018 Susan Merrick and Barbara Touati-Evans

August – Statements in Semaphore 2018 -Works in Progress in Pictures

Images from our workshops, Artist days, inspiration from around Aldershot and Wandsworth stations and Work In Progress pictures from across the project in 2018!

A SERIES OF EVENTS part 1

The first of two events we are running as part of Statements in Semaphore this year. Come along and hear about what we have been up to, have a chat and a cuppa to find out about the work we have been doing and who we have been working with!

June 2018 – Control

This month I have been reflecting on the conversations that have happened both during and in response to the project so far this year. Sometimes the dialogue is heavy, with myself and another Artist perhaps agonising over details or the social politics of an issue. At other times,  it is simply one comment, from one…

May 2018

May 2018 has been a busy month for the project (as well as for my performance interpreting and home life.) We completed 4 workshops with The You Trust – and these have kicked off some fantastic discussions and some collaborative performance ideas between myself and Barbara Touati-Evans. There will hopefully be more I can announce…

Show Announcement April 2018

Division of Labour   Hilary Champion | Cate Field | Laura Greenway Yeonhwa Kim | Susan Merrick | Dora Schluttenhofer Lees   Recent graduates from MA Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham   PV Friday 20 April 18.00-20.00 Exhibition runs Fri 20 – Sat 28 April 12.00-17.00 (Closed Monday + Tuesday)  Echo Control…

March 2018

This month has been about kickstarting the project, getting organised, getting partners confirmed and scheduling workshops! The month kicked off by speaking with You Trust Hampshire and organising a venue for the workshops with them. The Artist working with them will be Barbara Touti-Evans so we met up and had some wonderful conversations about holding…

New Funding!!!! (and an update!)

  Well, sorry for the silence! November and December I spent a great deal of time reflecting on the project, gathering feedback from the artists and organisations that I worked with across 2017 – which I am now going to place on the site! Feedback Statements in Semaphore 2017 This time allowed me to really consider…

November 2017

The next few weeks are all about report writing….. I will be evaluating the project, collecting feedback from the partners I worked with and writing up the feedback we already have from participants. I will be publishing the report/feedback over the next few weeks. This will be a really useful way to reflect on the…

FiLiA 2017 An Immense Weekend!

I want to write while it’s fresh in my mind, but I’m still exhausted and I don’t feel very prepared. So maybe I will write a second post about the exhibition once my brain has come back to life. I want to recap a little and over the next week or so I will be…