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From the Team
Volunteer Spotlight
This initiate emerged in response to volunteers expressing interest in showcasing their creative work. We know how wonderfully talented our community is and it felt important to create a space to spotlight and share that creativity. From the Team is designed to be a participatory initiative that provides a space for volunteers to display existing work, discuss their passions, and / or offer a some shameless plugs!
C.F. Richey
@richeyricheyrichey
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas Current place: Brighton, UK
Richey is a multi-disciplinary, non-binary artist, Elle Woods-esque academic, and human rights advocate hailing from Dallas, Texas. Richey has a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an Erasmus Mundus dual degree MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from Utrecht University and the University of York.
Richey’s work juxtaposes tangible textures and challenging topics so that the twist prompts a conversation about hypocrisies and contrasting co-existences. For example, Richey argues that one can’t call themselves ‘pro-life’ if they support a state-sanctioned death penalty, separating [immigrant] children from their [immigrant] parents, or bombing children in other countries. Richey enjoys using dark humour and subversive language to break down heavy or elitist conversations. Richey believes in blasphemous concepts like bodily autonomy, borderless travel, pineapple on pizza, and that feminist spaces inherently need to be accessible, equitable, and intersectional.
Richey’s flags were made using a Brother KH-881 Knitting Machine. Knitting machines were manufactured in the mid-1900s until 1995; the year Richey was born. Knitting machines allowed people, predominantly women, to create small-scale cottage industries, a sense of self-sufficiency and personal creativity. Richey’s knitting machine, named Nidhi, has travelled between the Netherlands, the USA, Spain, and England; giving them the power to create as they migrated.
