We’re half way through Volunteers Week 2023! To celebrate we’ve been talking with a few of our past volunteers, reflecting on their time at Project Ability and finding out were they are now.
Today we’re chatting with Seamus Killick who volunteered with the Create group in 2017. You can look back to Seamus’ first blog entry here.
“Since my time with Project Ability, I’ve worked on quite diverse projects across Scotland which have taught me a lot and swung my practice in really exciting new directions. During COVID, I became really drawn to tactile and sensory making and was particularly drawn to costume making and water work. I collaborated with my parents on a performative walk where I’m from in Cardiff and exhibited in Manchester at the Grayson Perry lockdown show.
After that I moved back to Scotland and created an immersive solo show with help of EMBASSY gallery in Edinburgh, where we built a big water feature. We also created a costumed performance out at Cramond Island together. Once back in Glasgow I knew I wanted to work more with people and was lucky enough to become Participatory Artist in Residence in Seedhill, on the EVOLVE project with RIG arts. A lot of brilliant people here. We made a horror movie about a giant seagull and created public sculpture and performance at the local playground.
Since then I have been focussing on my masters degree in Art Psychotherapy which has been brilliant but very demanding. I’m looking forward to getting back to socially engaged creative work – creating an Escape Room with young people in Paisley and heading north with another Project Ability volunteer Maya Rose Edwards, where we will be conducting research for an exciting project about peat bogs.
I think back on my time at Project Ability with great fondness, especially my time with the Abbie Crew (Jacqui, Jamie, Andrew and Scott, who I met through Scottish Autism) a really inspiring group of artists and magical people.”
You can follow Seamus’ recent work at seamuskillick.com
