MANIFESTO
Every day, I put my head beneath my legs
Form and conscious spirit surfaced from the land; contours line my inner world
1) Practice gratitude to the landscape’s convulsions
2) Do not be strict on the waves you bore
3) Exist in your own autonomy always
The organic refuge
1) Breathe into the forms with respect
2) Through the mediation between the internal and material
Be led through an exorcism
I feel it necessary to be able to touch myself
1) Embrace the urge towards a tangibility
So, I fold inwards and roll with my hands out
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London [2024-2028]
Professional Education Undergraduate Short Course, “Clinical, Critical and Creative Approaches to the Human Body”, City St George’s, University of London [2024-2025]
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Distinction [2023-2024]
Exhibitions & Events
Medical Humanities Conference: Discourses on Medicine’s Identity, Cambridge University Medical Humanities Society in collaboration with the Association of Medical Humanities, Newnham College, Cambridge [2025]
All That Is Solid Melts, Era Journal, The Crypt Gallery, London [2025]
Central Saint Martins Shows: Foundation, Lethaby Gallery, London [2024]
Interwoven: Neurodiversity and the Creative Mind, Central Saint Martins Museum, London [2023]
Awards
The James Lewis Foundation Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London [2024]
Contact:
xirichards@outlook.com