SENSORY SELF PORTRAITS
Bailee Lobb
Enter into a breath-taking world of colour, filled with large-scale soothing sensory bubbles.
This playful textile installation by autistic artist Bailee Lobb explores the pursuit of self-regulation and sensory supports. Works from In Bathing, Bask sit alongside a new performance-installation How Do You Sleep At Night?, in which Bailee will sleep in the gallery after selecting items to match her current sensory needs.
Sensory Self Portraits is a touch friendly exhibition, audience members are invited to touch objects from How do you sleep at night? while the artist is not performing and go inside the colourful inflatable artworks at any time.
Supreme Award Winner in Changing Threads Contemporary Textile and Fibre Art Awards, 2021
Listen to Bailee’s interview on RNZ’s Culture 101 here.
How Do You Sleep At Night? Performance Times:
Thurs 19 Oct, 7pm | Fri 20 Oct, 3pm | Sat 21 Oct, 10am + 1pm
Accessibility Programme:
Visual Art and Christ Church Cathedral Audio Described Tour | Sat 28 October | 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Starting at Refinery ArtSpace, 114 Hardy Street, Nelson and finishing at the Christ Church Cathedral.
Register via email to: access@nelsonartsfestival.nz
Pre-Recorded Audio Described Tour of Exhibition | 20 – 28 Oct
Headsets are available during gallery opening hours.
Bailee Lobb
Bailee (she/her) is a video, performance and installation artist who works with colour, soft structures, movement, and spatial interventions to create immersive and playful interactive environments.
Her practice explores her experience of disability as an autistic woman, in particular looking at frameworks of self-care and crip time. Rest, including sleep, accessibility, experimentation, and play are central themes in her practice and works. Her current work looks at self-regulating practices like stimming, incorporating movement and the creation of supportive structures that support her disability every day.
“Many of my works are touchable, as I personally am a very tactile person and feel the strongest connections to artworks that I can experience through touch,” says Bailee.
Supported by:
REFINERY ARTSPACE
19-28 Oct | Night Vision: Thurs 19 Oct 5pm-8pm, Tue–Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am–2pm (not open Sun-Mon)
Performances: Thurs 19 Oct, 7pm | Fri 20 Oct, 3pm | Sat 21 Oct, 10am + 1pm
FREE
All Ages