Lady Kitt is a Disabled artist and drag king, describing their work as“Mess Making as Social Glue.
Kitt works on long term, collaborative projects driven by insatiable curiosity about how art can be useful.
Kitt uses crafting, performance, and research to create objects, interactions and events, with the wild ambition of dismantling and mischievously re-crafting spaces and systems they find discriminatory, obsolete or just quite dull.
Projects are usually punctuated by the creation of large-scale, vibrant installations / sites for exchange made from recycled paper, reused plastics and raw clay, which Kitt calls shrines. These are inspired by English folk traditions (like clootie wells) and the Catholic shrines Kitt visited as a child in Portugal.
The shrines are created with low carbon crafting techniques and materials (like making garlands from olds plastic bags). These are not religious places, but they can open and hold space for mystical doings and beings. These spaces are sometimes experienced as installations, sometimes as settings for performances, meetings, workshops and often a mix of all of these..
