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Gemma Gore is a visual artist/curator, researcher, arts educator and writer, based in Southampton, UK. Grounded in positions of disability, motherhood, queer-ecology and radical vulnerability to explore forms of interconnectedness through the research question:

What are the forces, configurations, poetics and discontents of care?

Probing the qualities of intimacies, connectedness and the nature of inter-dependant ecologies between multi-scalar bodies within the cosmos. Gemma's practice values collaboration to feel entwined with other bodies. Through her euro-divergent experience, she tunes into her body's sensual ways of knowing, using movement as a way of psychically inhabiting environments inaccessible. Underground, underwater, off-world. Gemma's work weaves together hand-made, found, and digital encounters. Gemma's practice gently holds people, movement, words, code, photography and drawings, creating assemblages of im/materials, manifesting as artist books and zines, web and video works and installations.

Sharing a practice with Jo Willoughby from Doggerland, Gemma is also a member of artist/curator collective Stair/Slide/Space, is part of
Practising Artists Commoning (PAC) artists' peer group (More Than Ponies, New Forest) and affiliated with the global scholar network at Ocean/Uni (TBA21).
Gemma is an Artist Associate at John Hansard Gallery and ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth as well as being a member of the British Art Network.

Awarded Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice fund in 2021 for self-initiated R&D project Tender. Selected exhibitions include Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK); NewBridge Projects (Newcastle, UK); John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland); Ormston House (Limerick, Ireland); and Station Independent Projects (New York, USA).

Thank you!