Gill Crawshaw is a curator who draws on her experience of disability activism to organise art exhibitions and events which highlight issues affecting disabled people.
Gill has curated exhibitions which have addressed representation of disabled artists and access (Possible All Along, 2020), charity (Piss on Pity, 2019), and cuts to welfare and public spending (Shoddy, 2016). Any work that wanted doing, a project for Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, brought together disabled people’s voices from the past and present, as disabled artists responded to the hidden histories of disabled mill workers. The exhibition made links between disabled workers of the past and the situation of disabled people today.
This reflects Gill’s interest in the intersection of disabled people’s lives with textile heritage in the north of England, as well as with contemporary textile arts. She is based in Leeds.
Gill was a member of BAN’s Emerging Curators Group 2024. As part of this programme she began her ongoing research into the career of artist Audrey Barker.
