About us

Image Description - a photo of Charlie, a white woman, with shoulder length long brown hair. She looks directly at the camera and squints. She wears a large black puffer coat. A blue sky with light clouds and a sandy beach are behind her.
Image Description - a photo of Ellie, a tall woman with long hair dyed blonde and white skin with freckles. Her head and shoulders are in shot. She looks directly forwards with a neutral expression. She is wearing a green vest top and rounded square tan glasses.
Image Description - a photo of Miss Jacqui, a black woman with long black and slightly grey twists. Her head and shoulders are in frame, she is facing the front with a neutral expression and her head rests on her fist. She is in front of a brown background with various illustrations on it of people; some line drawing, some block colours in various shades of brown and pink.

We are an intersectional triad of disabled womxn; creators and experts in our fields. We are an active and complete circuit of flowing energy which we share, exchange and develop. 

This art practice began as part of a Develop Your Creative Practice award made by Arts Council England. We had known or at least been aware of each other four a couple of years online, but hadn’t worked or communicated together as a trio. 

We started with quite practical discussions about what kind of formation we wanted to take, what kind of services we would want to provide once we have established ourselves as a business, however it became clear that it would be better, though perhaps unconventional, to do things backwards… To create what we are before deciding it.

Image Description - a photo of Charlie, a white woman, with shoulder length long brown hair which is in a high ponytail. She is seen from behind, wearing a green dress and sitting at a table painting a red line drawing of a brain with faces inside of it.

Charlie Fitz (she/they)
Charlie Fitz is a sick and disabled artist, writer and medical humanities postgraduate, living in Birmingham, UK. She is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Studentship for her MA in Medical Humanities; Bodies, Cultures and Ideas, at Birkbeck, where she is exploring trauma and illness predominantly through contemporary memoirs and modernist art. Her multiform projects broadly explore experiences of illness, whilst aiming to resist and challenge the expectation that the ‘sick’ be patient or passive to medical paternalism. She utilizes photography, collage, digital and material forms in her work. Collaboration with other artists IS central to her practise and she attempts to break the boundaries between the creative and academic. She has had various written and visual publications in magazines, journals and zines and has had work exhibited.

Image Description - a photo of Miss Jacqui, a black woman with long black twists half tied up, half down. She is wearing a white jumper and navy blue trousers. She sits in her motorised wheelchair singing into a microphone on a stage.

Miss Jacqui (she/her)
Miss Jacqui is a Poet and Songwriter who knows a lot about working with the cards that you are dealt. Especially so because she is someone who always tries to challenge societal perceptions, like what it actually means to be a black woman with a disability. A wheelchair user herself, Miss Jacqui wants her poetry and music to help her listeners see the world differently, and inspire others to feel confident in being themselves. She is also a Spoken Word Artist, Songwriter, and Facilitator.

Image Description - A black and white photo of Ellie, a tall woman with long hair dyed blonde and white skin with freckles. She is wearing rounded square glasses, dark tights and a dark long sleeve short dress. She is sitting side on with her legs and arms crossed and she is glancing behind her over her shoulder.

Ellie Page (she/her)
Ellie is an experienced youth & mental health worker. Since worsening mobility made the ‘running around’ aspects of her job a bit tricky, she has utilised her broad range of skills as an accessibility consultant, artist, producer, academic & mental health worker. Over the pandemic, she managed the UK Disability Arts Alliance and undertook numerous design projects whilst whilst maintaining her passion for building community resilience by working as a mentor & advocate to many young adults.  She runs her own art ‘lack-of-movement’ in Manchester, under the moniker Still Ill OK, and is a postgrad researcher of social & alternative approaches to psychosis. She has experience in theatre and film as an actor, director, producer & dramaturg.  She has several publications and is a keen writer alongside her visual art practice.

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