2003 is European Year of the Disabled and progressive photographer Natalie Martin is supporting the event with an innovative sensory exhibition of photography suitable for all but particularly designed for people with partial sight or blindness. With help from Vision 1 arts organisation in Suffolk, Natalie is in the process of creating a series of sense stimulating installations for a show that begins a national tour starting at Norwich Arts Centre in January 2004. Today, however, Natalie is in the Making Things tent at Glastonbury with an array of miniature pairs of pants and T shirts with designs created by the children of the Kidz Field. She is there to say thank you to the festival organisers for allowing her free reign to roam the site and collect prints for her exhibition. Tony Cordy of the Kidz Field welcomed her with open arms and she is here until Sunday with her ‘cheap and cheerful’ Washing Line Gallery.
Her up and coming exhibition has attracted a great deal of interest and she has successfully enlisted the support of Radio 4’s Peter White. There is now a good chance she will continue to receive much needed funding. Anyone interested can reach Natalie at [email protected]