Jill Boyd West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
#Autistic #neurodiverse creative who uses her art to not only process her contexts but to have a voice and connect.
I feel that I’m a photographer who delights in play, mischief and activism, with the aim of manifesting interest in a neurodiverse point of view, particularly, Autism and ADHD. Through my visual tableaux, demonstrating societal challenges, I am trying to experiment with the concept of connections in every day occurrences. ‘Hidden Layers’ are an attempt to connect to others but also demonstrate the stress and isolation by enabling the negative space in an image to create the hypothetical void of not understanding the world at times. The layered images are more emotionally relevant where I’m looking more inward and are a group that will form an installation centred around the framework of a compass. My journey to this point has been one of adversity and self doubt, punctuated by points of great connections that have steered me ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ are my chance to engage in using humour as their mechanism of connection to an audience. The character is called ‘Pov’, (point of view) and it’s helped me manage feelings of being overwhelmed as a neurodiverse individual by enabling me to process the moment, diffuse my emotional deregulation and have a voice.. I believe that both capture the nature of my hidden disability within my ‘hidden’ concepts and text which I find vitally important to specify my intentions. The theme of accessibility is also important and I use my mobile phone in my work to reflect my working class background where expensive professional equipment isn’t always available from poorer socio-economic backgrounds.
Artwork
POV, Photography , 2020/21