PROJECT WEBSITE: FLOWUNLOCKED.CO.UK

Flow Unlocked seeks to highlight the importance of relationships to autistic people and to rewrite the damaging stereotypes that exist about their lives. We are a collaborative group; Georgia Pavlopoulou, UCL Psychologist, autism researcher & neurodiversity advocate; Jon Adams, neurodivergent artist, polymath, Synaesthete and mental health Champion and myself. We are also investigating the questions of co-authorship and representation inherent to our process.

We invited autistic East Londoners to join creative writing workshops. As a group we built a safe space to share perspectives and ideas on relationships, and the effects of lockdown. Briony and Jon then created visual works inspired by the participant’s writings, which were developed and honed in collaboration with or in response to regular feedback from our workshop participants. We created honest and compelling art inspired by the ways in which autistic people relate to the communities and environments around them, and to question the issues of representing another’s narrative.

Flow Unlocked is supported by UCL Culture’s Trellis programme.