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Cis O'Boyle
Cis is a collaborative artist who works closely with ecologies to transform space and realise narratives that are both accessible and meaningful. Cis trained at the Bartlett School UCL, has an MSc in Built Environment and specialises in site-specific relational design. Cis has lectured on several BA and MA courses including Goldsmiths, Royal Central & Kingston University. The breadth of her practice covers, contemporary art, architecture and performance. Works include IK prize winning Tate Sensorium, site specific projects with Artangel and Natural History Museum. Opera at Bregenz, Royal Opera House, Sydney Opera House and collaborative performance/ installations/exhibitions at ICA & National Review of Live Art, OSBTT award for Terrific Electric Barbican. Charmian Griffin Charmian creates and produces web projects with artists and visual arts organisations. She works part-time with Idle Women and for Artangel. Charmian has an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from the Royal College of Art, during this time she was Editor of the college journal Arc and produced the course website. She teaches art criticism at Central Saint Martins, writes on art and technology, including for Dirty Furniture, Rhizome, and The White Review, and works as a freelance digital producer for clients including Roald Dahl, and Tate. |
Rachel Anderson
Rachel is an artist and producer specialising in site-specific relational practice. She was Producer of Collaborative Projects at Artangel where she realised projects including a tender subject with Mark Storor, Smother with Sarah Cole and Museum of Non Participation with Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, before that she initiated the Education and Outreach program at South London Gallery and was manager of the Queensbridge Youth Project in Hackney where she created the Queensbridge Community Arts partnership with Immediate Theatre. Rachel was provided critical friendship to Munchmuseet on the Move off-site programme and contributes to the Curatorial MA in Bergen. |
Creatives, caretakers and production team
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Idle Women Directors and Board 2023 onwardsNao Nagai, Kariima Ali, Deni Francis, Aateeka Bashir, Alana Jelinek, Jazmin Morris, Charmian Griffin, Rachel Anderson, Cis O'Boyle.
Strategic and artistic consultation and transition to NPO supported by Cressida Day Directors & Founding Board 2015-2023Rachel Anderson, Cis O'Boyle, Kariima Ali, Anna Hart, Maria Caroll, Jill Raymond, Alana Jelinek, Adelaide Bannerman, Parveen Butt, Laurie Peake, Nao Nagai
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Collaborations and partnershipsIdle Women and Humraaz have worked in partnership since 2015.
Humraaz is a specialist service led by and for Black and Minoritised women to support women at a point of crisis, providing refuge and safety along with advocacy and intervention until they are ready to move on. Together Idle Women and Humraaz own and are creating the physic garden and are developing Gain Ground, a specialist project to address the gap in services when women leave refuge and support. Our partnership collaborates with She Digs - a women and non-binary led gardening collaboration who work in the garden and support learning through training and skill share. Canal & River Trust
Humraaz Support Services Great Places Housing Super Slow Ways Hyndburn Borough Council Local Authorities - Wigan, Hounslow, Sheffield, Rotherham, Brent, Milton Keynes, Trafford UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Funding and supportIdle Women joined the Arts Council National Portfolio in May 2023
Gain Ground - the Idle Women and Humraaz partnership is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund S.H.E.D - Necessity Community Foundation for Lancashire - Lancashire Womens Fund Previously funded by the National Lottery Community Fund through: Awards for All, Building Connections Fund, Together For Our Planet, ITV and The National Lottery Fund Peoples Project. The physic garden land was purchased with thanks our the community via crowdfunding.
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