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Cis O'Boyle
Cis is a collaborative artist and theatre maker who specialises in site-specific relational work. Before Cis left the institution she trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture, she works closely to transform space and realise narratives that are both accessible and meaningful. Her collaborative works include: IK prize Tate Sensorium, OSBTT award Terrific Electric Barbican, site specific projects with Artangel. Installations at ICA London & National Review of Live Art. Opera at Bregenz, Royal Opera House & Sydney Opera House. Teaching includes Goldsmiths, Central School of Speech and Drama. Charmian Griffin Charmian creates and produces web projects with artists and visual arts organisations. She works part-time with Idle Women and for Artangel. Charmian has an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from the Royal College of Art, during this time she was Editor of the college journal Arc and produced the course website. She teaches art criticism at Central Saint Martins, writes on art and technology, including for Dirty Furniture, Rhizome, and The White Review, and works as a freelance digital producer for clients including Roald Dahl, and Tate. Harriet Warden Harriet is a Creative Producer whose work focuses on ways to bring people, organisations and ideas together to create stronger, more connected communities. She is particularly interested in social and creative health practice, and how we create spaces that support connection, belonging and community resilience. She spent ten years as Founding Director of Blackhorse Workshop, which she set up with architecture collective Assemble, establishing an award-winning social enterprise to support emerging creative businesses. Prior to this she worked with the late Dame Zaha Hadid as part of her exhibitions team, was part of the founding team of Alain de Botton’s The School of Life, and was Assistant Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern. She has also served as a board member for Turf Projects and Grizedale Arts. Now as Studio Manager and Producer at Idle Women she supports the delivery side of their brilliant projects. Partners
Firoza Mohmed
Firoza is the CEO of Humraaz. Firoza has collaborated with us since 2015. Firoza leads strategy, development, and sustainability within our partnership with Humraaz. Firoza enabled us to secure the Physic Garden as co owners and is currently developing our social enterprise strand. Salma Saleh Salma Saleh is a senior support worker with Humraaz. We are fortunate enough that she collaborates with us directly as foundation lead for Humraaz on the Gain Ground program. Salma has worked alongside us for 11 years and was integral to the design and build of Selina Cooper and the Physic Garden. |
Rachel Anderson
Rachel is an artist and producer specialising in site-specific relational practice. She was Producer of Collaborative Projects at Artangel where she realised projects including a tender subject with Mark Storor, Smother with Sarah Cole and Museum of Non Participation with Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, before that she initiated the Education and Outreach program at South London Gallery and was manager of the Queensbridge Youth Project in Hackney where she created the Queensbridge Community Arts partnership with Immediate Theatre. Rachel was provided critical friendship to Munchmuseet on the Move off-site programme and contributes to the Curatorial MA in Bergen. Gardening / Growing/ Environment
Jai Turner
Jai Turner is our environmental associate. We have collaborated with Jai since 2020 and they have been instrumental in the design and construction of the Physic Garden. They also caretake and lead our growing nursery allotment space in Accrington and teach our garden trainees as part of Gain Ground. They have seeded several creative environmental initiatives, including a dyers' garden, an orchard and wetland conservation. Jai is an RHS horticulturalist who directs She Digs Manchester. |
Idle Women Trainees
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Creatives, caretakers and production team
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Idle Women Directors and Board 2023 onwardsNao Nagai, Kariima Ali, Deni Francis, Aateeka Bashir, Alana Jelinek, Jazmin Morris, Charmian Griffin, Rachel Anderson, Cis O'Boyle.
Strategic and artistic consultation and transition to NPO supported by Cressida Day Directors & Founding Board 2015-2023Rachel Anderson, Cis O'Boyle, Kariima Ali, Anna Hart, Maria Caroll, Jill Raymond, Alana Jelinek, Adelaide Bannerman, Parveen Butt, Laurie Peake, Nao Nagai
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Collaborations and partnershipsIdle Women and Humraaz have worked in partnership since 2015.
Humraaz is a specialist service led by and for Black and Minoritised women to support women at a point of crisis, providing refuge and safety along with advocacy and intervention until they are ready to move on. Together Idle Women and Humraaz own and are creating the physic garden and are developing Gain Ground, a specialist project to address the gap in services when women leave refuge and support. Our partnership collaborates with She Digs - a women and non-binary led gardening collaboration who work in the garden and support learning through training and skill share. Canal & River Trust
Humraaz Support Services Great Places Housing Super Slow Ways Hyndburn Borough Council Local Authorities - Wigan, Hounslow, Sheffield, Rotherham, Brent, Milton Keynes, Trafford UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Funding and supportIdle Women joined the Arts Council National Portfolio in May 2023 and receives essential organisational and activity support.
With gratitude to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for fundamental Arts Fund support for our artistic ambitions and social justice practice. Gain Ground - the Idle Women and Humraaz partnership is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund S.H.E.D - Necessity support essential adaptation, and creative flexibility. Community Foundation for Lancashire - Lancashire Womens Fund supporting women. Previously funded by the National Lottery Community Fund through: Awards for All, Building Connections Fund, Together For Our Planet, ITV and The National Lottery Fund Peoples Project. The physic garden land was purchased with thanks our the community via crowdfunding.
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