Visible Rest
by Lady Kitt
An Artwork For UK Pride with Right Up Our Street and Andro & Eve
Come along to Doncaster Pride to see the artwork created by Lady Kitt and the LGBTQIA+ community in Doncaster.
UK Pride Doncaster 2024
Saturday 10th August - Town Field
About the Artwork - A word from Lady Kitt
Pride is a protest. Pride is a party. Pride is action. Pride is work.
Pretty exhausting, eh? Everyone I’ve talked to in Doncaster about Pride says it’s amazing, wonderful, galvanising and exciting. They also say it’s overwhelming, draining,complicated and tiring.
One person I spoke to summed this up with the statement “being visible is half, if not more, of the work”.
In an attempt to offer ways of navigating the complex and tiring aspects of Pride, I am asking people:
“What spaces, colours, sounds, textures and atmospheres do we need to create places of pause, rest and reflection within Pride?”
About Visible Rest
Through a series of online and in person workshops Kitt facilitated activities, exercises and questions which invited people to share ideas of what they find restful and restorative. Kitt is then weaving responses (their own and those shared in the workshops) together to create an installation within Doncaster Pride which can offer a space for pause, rest, and contemplation, amongst the action, activism, performance and celebration of the day.
The installation will be both:
a place to take rest from being visible during Pride
a physical tribute to the work it takes for us to be visible as members of LGBTQIA+ communities
The installation will be displayed at UK Pride 2024 on Saturday 10 August in Doncaster. Find out more about Doncaster Pride via their website.
Headshot (2023) Credit Art Matters Now.
Art Confined (2022) Credit Lady Kitt.
Lady Kitt - Artist
We’re delighted to announce that Right Up Our Street and Andro and Eve will be working with artist Lady Kitt as part of this project.
Lady Kitt will be creating artwork which will debut at UK Pride in Doncaster this August and which will be developed in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ community in Doncaster.
Disabled installation artist, researcher and drag king Lady Kitt describes their work as ‘Mess Making As Social Glue’. Working on long term collaborations, projects are usually punctuated by the creation of large-scale, vibrant installations or sites for exchange made from recycled paper, reused plastics and raw clay, which Kitt calls shrines.
Kitt’s work has won North East Culture Awards ‘Newcomer of the Year’ award 2022, VAMHN Arts Award 2023, been longlisted for both the 2023 and 2024 Aesthetica Art Prize, shown at Atlanta Contemporary (USA), Saatchi Gallery (UK), National Centre on Restorative Justice (USA) and commissioned by Craftspace, Birmingham (‘Drag Declares Emergency’ 2022-23), Arts & Heritage (‘This, our hive of voices’ 2020-22) and BALTIC, Gateshead (‘Open. Bloom. Flourish. Nourish’, 2021).
Phase One
Reyt Proud zine is a new zine that shines a light on stories from LGBTQ+ people in Doncaster sharing what makes them proud. The Zine was designed by Leeds based artist Jazyra Christou.
