Event overview
A conversation with graphic novelist Lucy Sullivan about her work Barking, stigma, mental illness, art work, and more!
This event is curated as a discussion with Lucy Sullivan, graphic novelist and creator of 'Barking' - a graphic novel based on personal and anecdotal episodes of mental illness.
Barking was borne out of the author’s experience of a sudden death in the family whilst in her 20s and the subsequent, long-lasting impact on her mental health. The story was developed by combining honest accounts of a mental health crisis with research to form a fictionalized narrative exploring the stigma around mental illness, the complicated nature
of grief and reflect on the wider social impacts of how we view and treat a crisis we cannot see. Told through artwork that brings a new angle to the genre by experimenting with styles and traditional formats, utilising Sullivan’s artistic background in animation and observational drawing to widen the concept of what comics can encompass.
Barking is intended not only as a story but as a way of opening up a conversation around often stigmatised subjects such as how anger can manifest in depression but is often seen as a masculine response and the depiction of mental illness.
Lucy has a BA (Hons) in Illustration/Animation from Kingston School of Art. She has co-directed & animated Music Videos and created Pre-Visuals for Film & TV. Her comics work
includes commissions form Dark Horse Comics, contributing as Writer/Artist to Black Crown’s Hey, Amateur! Anthology & the self-published 1in4Zines, exhibited at Mind The Art & Atramental and included in the Wellcome Library Zines Catalogue. She is currently the artist on INDEXED; a sci-fi comic with writer Fraser Campbell and developing her latest series of zines; How to Build A Feminist.
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Feeling Bad/Feeling Fine is a series of events curated by the Centre for Feminist Research in 2018-20. These events foreground feminist, queer, crip, and decolonial perspectives to explore - intersectional ways of thinking about madness, illness, and disability; the 'mental health crisis' in university and its connections to austerity and to marketisation of universities; structures of ableism and their intersections with race, class, gender, and sexuality; the pathologizing, individualization, and psychologizing of madness and disability; and importantly, what we to care for each other, and to create a mad-positive non-ableist university/world.
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The venue (RHB 142) is located on the ground floor and is step-free and wheelchair accessible. The room will be scent-free and various lighting and seating options are available. There are gender neutral bathrooms on the same floor near Curzon Cinema. If there is anything we can do to make the room accessible or comfortable for you, please let us know by emailing a.mehta@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 17 Oct 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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