Sea Shucksmith
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and disability advocate. I have been making live art since 2006, focusing on performances/installations on the boundaries of clown, fringe, and live art. More recently, I have begun creating visual art in the form of drawings, collage and zines.My work explores being out-of-sync with the heteronormative, neurotypical world around me. Through inviting viewers into my own history and experience, I seek to personalise conflicts and perceptions around mental health, disability, neurodivergence, queerness, gender, and fatness.
Visual art
Click on the images below to see some of my latest artwork.
Vortex
Escaping into the Murmurations, Age 10
Queer Sex is a Radical Act
Identity
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Family Dinner
Flashback
Petri Dishes
Trauma Responses
BPD, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, Autism
Daffodil Still Life
Lady Crying Over Grey Hairs
Cyanotype Skies
Self-Portrait
An Unstoppable Force Meets and Immovable Object
Scout Sleeping
Systemic Failures
Kit’s Choir Performance
The Scent of Spring
Fungi
Trans Kids Just Want to Piss in Peace
Non-Speaking
Lying in the Hammock, Looking up Through the Branches
The Labels They Gave Me
Blue Sky Thinking
Live art and performance
Writing
I have been writing scripts and stories for performance since 2006, including Threadbare Greebo (2007-11), The Absurdity of Vanilla (2008), Harlow's Monkeys (2011), Kinky (2013), Square Peg (2018-19) and End Times (2019).
In 2023, I participated in Creative Future's Represented Programme for LGBTQ+ writers.
You can read some of my work in the project's online archive:
I also write access and education documents for organisations.
Here are some examples of what I do: