I am an artist and urban sketcher, using the landscape and the world around me as my inspiration.

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I like to be outside in the world when I am making work, and can often be found sitting on the pavement, in the woods, sheltering under a tree, capturing what I see. Since becoming disabled at the age of 14 from a rare neurological condition, art continues to be a big part of my recovery and acceptance, learning to appreciate and interact with the world around me in new and different ways. I feel the landscape, the sky, and the world around me gives. me the freedom that sometimes my body doesn’t offer me.

Would you like a unique piece of artwork? I am available to take commissions in watercolour and acrylic of your house, business, favourite coffee spot, holiday memories, the view from your bedroom etc. Prices for watercolour drawings are £50 for A4 (equivalent) and £95 for A3 (equivalent). Contact me for prices of other mediums/sizes, or just for a discussion of your ideas!

Click here to see examples of previous commissions.

I am currently taking on freelance curating roles, having had professional experience curating with the National Railway Museum, Screen South/Accentuate as an alumnus of the Curating for Change project, and Leeds Museums and Galleries. Click here to read more about my curatorial work.

Particular areas of interest are:

• Disability representation in museums

• Accessible exhibition making and narratives

• Art and art history, particularly 20th century - today

• Disability and the natural world

I am also keen to explore opportunities outside of these subjects, using my knowledge, lived experience, and co-production to curate interesting and relevant projects.

I speak and present to arts, heritage and cultural sector organisations, talking about my experience as a disabled person working in this sector. Click here to read more about my advocacy and speaking work. I am available for presentations and speaking engagements both in-person and online, on topics such as:

• ‘How to find disability representation in museum collections?’

• Growing and improving the representation of disability in our sector

• Community engagement and co-production

• Accessible exhibition making

• Workplace accessibility in the museum and heritage sector

• Navigating the sector as a person with lived experience of disability

I have presented at

• Arts Council Leadership Symposium

• National Trust internal staff disability conference

• Museums Association, All-Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums conference

• The SENsational Museum podcast

• Art Fund, Going Places session

Prices for speaking engagements start from £100. Please contact me for more details - amythravesconnor@gmail.com

I am passionate about giving disabled people the encouragement, ability and knowledge to participate in the arts and cultural heritage sector in ways that work for them. However, disabled people can’t do this alone. Institutions, and the sector in general, need to become…

Click here to read more about my advocacy and speaking work.