Category: Artists

  • SQUARE EYE Festival 3 – 6 December 2020

    DEAF EXPLORER are hosting their first ever online festival of Deaf artists and Deaf arts. Join the team and amazing Deaf artists on 3rd – 6th December 2020. All events are free and live events can be booked through Eventbrite (links below.) Thursday 3rd December 2020 7pm – Festival launch: We are Deaf Explorer Meet…

  • Matty Gurney and his adaptation of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest”

    Arts Council England opened for application’s for grant in late August, in September Deaf Explorer worked with Matty Gurney to submit his application to adapt “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest”. His interest, is in the novel’s critique of the mental ward as an instrument of oppression comparable to the prison; It’s an idea that…

  • Deaf Explorer Producers of Two Hearts

    Ruth Montgomery is collaborating with CBSO musicians to improve their education practice for deaf young people and deaf audiences . Ruth will take them to Braidwood school for the Deaf, where they will experiment with the same vibrio tactile technology & composition that Deaf para equestrian Laurentia Tan is using to compete in the Dressage…

  • Blown away, thank you Rinkoo for your powerful and gripping story

    If you would like to watch Rinkoo Barpaga’s online version of his performance Made In India Britain at Crystal Palace Festival on catch up, you can do that here: https://youtu.be/AxfKBjiTc70 Made In India BritainSince leaving home in Birmingham, Rinkoo Barpaga has moved around England a lot, determined to find somewhere to settle. Along the way,…

  • Finn’s Unlimited R&D ends with an online chat with the artists and his creative team

    Haptic Fish Tank R&D – End of Project Sharing 2-3pm, 21st October 2020 Eventbrite link If you want to attend the online sharing, telling us why you interested, places are limited. Over the last 9 months deaf-blind artist Finn has been collaborating with The Institute of Coding and the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry…

  • Rinkoo’s proposal to Lux was inspired visually, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel, Laura Obiols. Rinkoo Barpaga is a creative, adept at street photography capturing portraits of hidden people on the street. He has a keen visual eye, his work is a conversation and in his stand up comedy you can see…

  • Unlimited micro commission for Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings

    With the support of an Unlimited Micro Commission, Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings will make an experimental short film, that will tell a number of stories. It will rexamine the artists intersectionality through the lense of her father and amplified by Black Lives Matter. It will be a space on film that expose’s the issues from the perspective…

  • Video – Audio description. Maral is an Iranian woman with dark brown curly hair to her shoulders. She wears black framed round glasses and bright red lipstick. She is dressed in a black long sleeved T-shirt and jeans. She is sitting on a bench in a park with green bushes in the background.

  • Due to Covid 19 and the closure of schools in Pakistan, as well as the involvement of multi-disciplinary artist Rinkoo Barpaga, the R&D has transformed into a photography project. Deaf people are the hidden citizens of the world. They operate using their own languages, cultures and communities. Though engagement with the deaf community through the…

  • Maral Mamaghanizadeh commissioned by ArtReach and Journeys Festival International

    In August 2020, Maral was commissioned to make a digital sharing of her Arts Council England funded R&D, making fine bone china jewellery to be worn over the ears. Working with local Birmingham film maker, Sima Gonsai and Chris Bartholomew (Deaf Explorer’s ‘go to’ sound designer) Maral has created a performance film introducing Maral’s experience…