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Michelle Duxbury is an artist and postgraduate researcher from Leeds, with a studio practice based in Wakefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work explores an intrinsic link between landscape, body and identity, and how our individual and collective (dis)connection to landscape can impact on our feelings of belonging\/not belonging. She works with embroidery, moving image, sound and immersive installation work, using fictional narratives and speculative thinking to radically reimagine how disabled (and other marginalised) people might interact with landscapes they can not be physically present in, drawing on her own experiences as a disabled, neurodivergent woman from a working-class background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her body of work for Nature: Sensory titled Can You Hear The Pretty Birds Sing, she imagines a joyful and euphoric sensory connection to the green spaces of Wakefield she was unable to visit in person. Unable to leave the house on her own at the best of times due to her disabilities, this was heightened during the project as she was also experiencing issues with her wheelchair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

website: michelleduxbury.studio<\/a>
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Can Your Hear The Pretty Birds Sing, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the glass pieces featured in the exhibition space, there is an audiovisual element of the work presented online especially with those who may be unable to attend the exhibition in person in mind. The body of work comprises three glass panels, presented in the exhibition space, alongside an audiovisual work comprising a three part soundscape and artist film. The soundscape includes recordings taken on sites in Wakefield by other Nature: Sensory artists, shared with the artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Image description: looking out towards a garden, there is a green bushy hedge to the left hand side, a wooden fence to the rear of the slightly sloped lawn. The top of a house peeks out from above the fence. Written on the glass in waxy black cursive letters it says \u2018can you hear the pretty birds sing\u2019]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CAN YOU HEAR THE PRETTY BIRDS SING, 2024
Soundscape (5 min)<\/p>\n\n\n\n