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Creative ConnectionsBailee Lobb - Sculpture, installation and performance artistBailee Lobb is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 and now based in Wellington. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with textiles, colour, and movement to create sculpture, installation, and performance artworks that explore art as disability access and care.In this enlightening episode Bailee talks about how she felt as a teenager, as a person who was dealing with undiagnosed autism and how her artwork now responds to and nurtures her disability. She shares how she started her studies in architecture at uni in Aotearoa, why she changed degrees and went on...2024-12-011h 38
Culture 101Can sculpture help you sleep at night?Wellington artist Bailee Lobb has had a "combative" relationship with sleep her whole life. In the upcoming performance-installation How do you sleep at night? she'll use a range of "non-pharmaceutical sleep aids" to try and nod off at a Nelson gallery.2023-10-1523 min
B-Side StoriesTextile artist Bailee Lobb on bathing in colour, sleeping in the galleryLaura Interviews Bailee Lobb, a performance and installation artist who works with colour, soft structures, movement, and spatial interventions to create immersive environments. Bailee uses her art to explore her experience of disability and autism.
In this episode she describes her background, and the themes of her latest works, including 'How do you sleep at night?'. She describes the difference between neurodivergence and neurodiversity. Listen for her favourite place in Wellington.
Bailee's exhibition of textile installations exploring the pursuit of self-regulation and sensory support, called ‘Sensory Self Portraits’, is heading to the Nelson Arts festival in October 2023.2023-07-1151 min