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curatorial diversity engineer, transitional systemic coach & community-digital-dance producer curious about the spaces that unite & divide us all.

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Introducing William Thomas @abstractwill the fourth of our four current #SyncingSpace @SyncThinking UK/Singapore residents who has studio space at home and also with @RocketArts in Brighton.

Will joined Syncing Space sharing his determination to be part of this residency on equitable terms with flair and fun but also serious reflection and dedication to exploring arts leadership on his terms. Through this residency, we’ve seen Will enhance his way of expressing the vital change in attitudes needed in the ‘arts world’ slapping away unwanted interference working alongside animator, Dave Packer @sheep_films

Go to syncingspace.org and see more of Will’s journey.

With thanks to our other partners and supporters for this residency @tanyasartstudios @venturearts, @art.dis.singapore @rocket_artists @dashdisabilityarts @actionspace and ours and William’s creative supporters who make it all possible.

Thanks @aceagrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership #LeadershipSlaps

Image Description - A montage photograph of Will smiling at the camera surrounded by his artworks and a still from William’s final artwork animation that we’ll be sharing at our launch along with the other artists final exhibition pieces on Intl ‘Day of Colour

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Introducing @gracecurrieart - the third of our four current #SyncingSpace @SyncThinking residents who has studio space at home.

She joins Syncing Space with generous support from @dashdisabilityarts and is a bit of a firework with ‘bursts of energy but also ‘fizzling out’.

She reminds us that highs and lows of being a disabled artist and that is ‘just how it is’. Grace you are brill, you light up our skies!

Over the past few weeks, Grace has hosted an open studio and this way of influencing sits at the heart of her practice that longs for connection and joy.

Go to syncingspace.org and check out her studio

With thanks to our other partners and supporters for this residency @VentureArts @RocketArtists @DASH @actionspace and our creative supporters who make it all possible and @acegrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant.

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership #LeadershipFireworks

Image Description - A montage photograph of Grace smiling at the camera surrounded by her artworks.

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Introducing Maddi Lingard @maddilingard - one of our current #SyncingSpace residents @SyncThinking who has studio space and support @venturearts in Manchester.

Over the past few weeks Maddi has let us into her world and the joy she finds in capturing her memories of family and friends and her interest in fashion. She’s currently exploring the moon as metaphor, less fierce than the sun, gentle in its ebb and flow. Sometimes shining bright and sometimes hardly there for us to see. Kindness is a value that Maddi aspires to which is evident in the work she makes and her gentle reflection in her studio postings.

Go to syncingspace.org and check it out.
With thanks to our partners and supporters for this residency @art.dis.singapore @VentureArts @RocketArtists @DASH @actionspace and our creative supporters who make it all possible and @acegrams who are supporting Syncing Space so that artists with learning disability and autism can find and define their leadership for the road ahead and see themselves as internationally relevant with something (as Maddi would say) ‘to ‘show the world’.

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership #MaddiMoon

Image Description - A drawing by Maddi Lingard in pencil of a stylish person with a foxy bob and a black spotted dress.

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We’re deep into our 4th online #SyncingSpace international residency @syncthinking for artists with learning disability and autism to find and define their arts leadership.

This week and next we’re going to focus on our 4 brilliant artists in residence but firstly throwing light on our first ‘in studio’ session exploring choice of colour as it relates to who we are as artists and how we lead, facilitated by co-programme leader, the wonderful, Thompson Hall and @tanyasartstudios. Go to www.syncingspace.org and if you have a life in colour and a learning disability or autism you can upload your colour experiments too.

@aceagrams funded, this residency is made all the better working with our brilliant team @annilim @coldharvcash @sheep_films and Oli Pyle.

Big shout out to our partners and supporters: @art.dis.singapore @venturearts @actionspace @rocket_artists @dashdisabilityarts and our creative supporters who make it all happen.

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLed #DisabledLeadership SyncLeadership

Image Descriptions - A series of photographs of artists in their studios, making work,sharing it and posts in our new colour uploader.

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Sync is delighted to be working with @shubbakfestival again following our leadership programme SyncArabi in 2023.

63 Days of Sit-In, from Basta Theatre Collective (@basta.theatre ), is based on the 63-day sit-in staged by Palestinian disability rights activists inside the Palestinian Legislative Council during the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding the implementation of disability rights legislation and equal access to healthcare and public services.

4th September we have access for blind and visually impaired audiences across all performances and film with an additional touch tour at 7pm.

7pm
touch tour
7.30pm
40-minute performance followed by
35 minute documentary film screening

📅 4 September 2026
📍 Theatro Technis, London
🎟️ https://www.theatrotechnis.com/whatson/63-days-of-sit-in-%7C--يومًا-من-الاعتصام-63
Age guidance: 13+

Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible, with guide and hearing dogs welcome, a loop system in the main hall. Please get in touch with dan@shubbak.co.uk if you require a companion ticket and sarah@cuspinc.org for more info re:AD - please share with anyone this may be a delight to experience @extantltd @sallyboothartist @liz.porter.5855 @rachelgadsden @vocaleyesaudiodescription @kelsieacton1 @sarahpickthall

IMAGES: (2 Khawla Darsalim), (3-4 Ikhlas Sawalha), (5 Nikos Kanistras)

63 Days of Sit-In was developed with the support of the Disability Under Siege (DUS) Network, University of Birmingham and British Council Palestine through the Jerusalem Creative Spaces programme. The London presentation is supported by British Council, Wijhat (an initiative of Al Mawred Al Thaqafy – Culture Resource), Sync Leadership and Dais Hale.
ID a montage in grey and dark shades, a man lies across a set of boxes covered in projections - the words 63 Days Sit-In with partner logos

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It’s World Autism Awareness Day, and myself and co-helmer, Thompson Hall and the Sync team are celebrating the end of our @acegrams 3rd Syncing Space UK/Korea residency, launching an exhibition of works and reflections from our four participating artists: Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim, Eliph Hadert, Victoria Bowman and Lucy. @pixel.kim @eliphhadert

We couldn’t be more in awe of the journeys our artists have taken in understanding what leadership means. All on their terms, with a new sense of where they can have an impact in the future.

We are all feeling a refreshed sense of self and confidence for the road ahead; that’s what a Sync Leadership programme does.

For those of us who are neurodivergent (and we are many), it isn’t just a day, it’s an ongoing marginalised way of being. One that should be accepted, counted and counted upon with all its untapped potential and vibrancy. ✨

Visit www.syncingspace.org (link in bio 🔗) and press the exhibition button, where we’ve gone live!

With thanks to:
@sheep_films @coldharvcash @annilim and Oli Pyle

@projectartworks @actionspace @figmentarts and Community Art Project, Darlington.

Wonny Kim, Azin Lim, Laurence Ward, Patricia Finnegan, Elias Blacklock and Lisa Brown.

#AutisticLeadership #DisabledLed #SyncLeadership #SyncingSpace #WorldAutismDay

Image Descriptions:
Image 1: The exhibition page on our syncingspace.org website showing the click-through artwork images for each artist
Image 2: Eliph Hadert's artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece 'Palace of Bees'
Image 3: Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim's artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece 'Melody of Chaos'
Image 4: Victoria Bowman's artwork page on the Sync website with a focus on the piece 'Wonderland'
Image 5: Lucy's artwork page on the Sync website with an image of her in her Beagle in Blue and Yellow costume

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We're excited to focus the spotlight on our final artist resident, Lucy, who is based at @projectartworks in Hastings. She joins our third Syncing Space residency that comes to fruition this week, funded by @aceagrams, working with artists in the UK and South Korea.

Lucy's practice explores the characters which she makes and inhabits, and smaller characters that she crafts and more besides.

When Lucy joined the programme, she didn’t really feel like a leader (but we knew she was). What she does know instinctively is the ideal environments and attitudes that help her to be the artist she wants to be and knows it’s different for others.

She has scripted an animation called 'Transformation Exploring Environments’ working with our SyncingSpace animator, Dave Packer.

Watch Lucy's 'Welcome to my studio' video via the link in bio 🔗

Image descriptions
Slide 1: A picture of Lucy in her Beagle in Blue and Yellow costume
Slide 2: A screen grab of one of her comic strips
Slide 3: A screen grab from Spectrum the Autistic Wolf being relaxing in a Hastings garden, part of the new animation.

#AustisticLeadership #DisabledLed #EnvironmentalInclusion #SyncLeadership #SyncingSpace

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We want to shift our focus to Sync Shorts Syncing Space co-helmer, Thompson Hall, an artist based at the brilliant @actionspace in London, who has partnered with Syncing Space since it began.

Thompson has a deeply reflective practice that explores society and injustice. He was part of the first @my_british funded Syncing Space residency between the UK and Malaysia in spring 2025, and took such an interest in leadership learning that we asked him to lead some more. Our programme wouldn’t be the same now without him!

#LearningDisabledLed #DisabledLed #BrilliantMinds #SyncLeadership

Image Descriptions: Thompson sharing himself through work and actions, talking about leadership through making his own art pieces and in that last image, in conversation with @pixel.kim in our residency. Thompson sharing himself through work and actions, talking about leadership through making his own art pieces.

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Time to meet our third SyncingSpace resident artist based in Brighton, @eliphhadert

Eliph is active in the community and an artist who was introduced to us by @figmentarts

Their practice sensitively weaves their ways of being into a gentle, eco-aware exploration of memory and meaning, with a natural focus on those who are often left out.

Eliph is all about their life in connection with others through collaboration, inspiration and thoughtfulness. They make us buzz with the bees!

Check out their studio video over on our website - link in our bio 🔗

With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing Eliph in their studio.

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLed #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership #SyncingSpace

Image Description - A series of photographs of Eliph in their art studio, captured from their ‘Welcome to my Studio’ video.

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Next up we're so delighted to have Hyun-Woo “Pixel” Kim with us in the @acegrams Sync Shorts - SyncingSpace.org joining us every Thursday from Seoul. Pixel's work is known and loved globally and since meeting him in Jamsil Studios in Seoul with Sync Korea in 2018, we've wanted to work with him and now we have that great pleasure. @pixel.kim @pixel.kim95

Check out Pixel's studio for what drives his practice. Link to watch is in our bio 🔗

With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing the video.

Our artists will be showcasing their leadership thinking in April!

#LearningDisabledLeadership #DisabledLed #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership #SyncingSpace

Image Description - A series of photographs of Pixel and his work in his art studio, captured from his ‘Welcome to my Studio’ video.

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We’re halfway through our @aceagrams funded UK/South Korea arts leadership residency. This week and next, we'll be focusing on our 'Sync Shorts' - SyncingSpace.org residents in turn.

Meet Victoria Bowman, an artist at The Community Art Project in Darlington through @darlingtonbc

This piece is called Tree.

Check out Victoria's studio and watch her 'Welcome to my Studio video!' It's a flutter of loveliness, that's for sure! Link to watch is in our bio 📽

With thanks to @coldharvcash for capturing Victoria in her studio so beautifully 😍

#LearningDisabledLeadership #AutisticArtsLeadership #DisabledLed #DisabledLeadership #SyncLeadership

Image Description - A series of photographs of Victoria at work in her art studio, captured from her ‘Welcome to my Studio’ video.

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