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Creative Direction

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.

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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 

Sisterhood
Riaz Begum, Riffat Batool,  Rehmat Hasham, Tayyba Shahzad, Amina Iqbal

Physic Garden landscaping:​

Samira Arhin-Acquaah, Jill Turner, Anita Faherty, Liz Gill, Jaheda Choudhury, Alys Fowler, Rachel Anderson, Cis O'Boyle

Medicine Nursery:

Jill Turner, Liz Gill, Samira Arhin-Acquaah, Salma Saleh, Rukaya

Design, web and PR
Janette Scott, Charmian Griffin, Caroline Teng, O-SB Design, Vera Van de Seyp, 

Photography
Wendy Burnett, Jessie Leong, Cis O'Boyle, Rachel Anderson
Medicinal plant studies, teaching and Physic Garden Book (WIP)
Elizabeth Mara Baughman, Annis Joslin, Babita Mundra

Gain Ground
Jaheda Choudhury

Stadium for the Future (if I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution)
Anna Smith, Caterina Loriggio
Full past and present production credits in each project page

Founding Trustees & Directors of Idle Women CIC

Rachel 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 partnerships 

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 support

S.H.E.D - Necessity
Together For Our Planet - The National Lottery Community Fund

Idle Women
​PO Box 354
Accrington, Lancashire
BB5 9FQ
United Kingdom
Email: info@idlewomen.org
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