Here here !Before becoming an MP I spent 26 years in work to end violence against women—locally, nationally, and internationally. The last ten years I worked with perpetrators of domestic violence.
I am proud to have founded the All Party Parliamentary Group on Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse, which has helped to inform the draft Domestic Abuse Bill.
If re-elected, the struggle to end violence against women will remain a high priority for me, as it has been for the last four years.
We still live in a deeply unequal society. I am still only the 408th woman ever to have been sworn in as an MP in UK Parliament. Although there are still few women (and fewer women of colour) in politics, we are harder to ignore when we are there.
Thank you Thangam. I am honoured to say I will vote for this strong and honourable MP. Thangam speaks for many and represents causes that need a strong voice in Parliament.Elaine Robinson carried out a groundbreaking art residency in the House of Commons last year. Thank you for your endorsement!
Evelyne Tanner from Switzerland adding her fingerprint to the GLOBAL panel of SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity 7th December 2019 . This panel is for people who work, study and live in this country without a British passport.... Evelyne is a student who is going to study medicine and wants to always help others.
Grace Engel - Time instinctive artist -adding her fingerprint to SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity ‘ Art - A Unifying Language’ Panel.
When Grace was asked how she felt about being asked for her fingerprint - Grace answered....
‘ We’re all links in the chain- makes me feel a sense of belonging - important and yet as equally important as anyone else’ Grace Engel 7th December 2019
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Grace is a fabulous portrait artist too. 🧡 and always ready to discuss any commissions. I commissioned Grace 10years ago and now have a painting of the most precious people I share my life with that also brings me joy. I can not recommend enough. X
Absolutely ! Thank you Thangam 🙂As a former professional musician, I know how important music and the arts are. I want to work to ensure that everyone, regardless of their background, gets the chance to enjoy music.
Lisa May Thomas is a dance artist and PhD researcher. Lisa has added her fingerprint to the ‘ Art- A Unifying Language Panel’ of the nationwide emerging artwork SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity. When Lisa placed her ‘ moving fingerprint ‘ she said ‘ Capturing the blur’
- I asked her how she felt being asked for her fingerprint - she answered ‘ A little bit kinda wanting to do it right - as a movement, I was much happier- it felt quite light - Capturing the blur was the original title of my scholarship proposal’
Thank you Lisa May
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Today's endorsement comes from Ras Judah Adunbi, a community activist in Easton and St Pauls.
Well done Jo x Wonderful piece in The Guardian x
Buffalo jumps and handmade lingerie: the Native American artists 'reversing colonialism'
Slaughter grounds thick with buffalo remains and a savaging of Thanksgiving myths are two of the highlights in the new wave of indigenous art heading for BritainSPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity ‘ Art- A Unifying Language’ panel
‘From afar, our fingerprints, appear akin
Yet close up, our fingerprints, are unique
Although we are individuals, we comprise of a whole’ Holly Loach - English Literature Student.
Thank you Holly x
Sarah Class seen here helping prepare ‘Satellite Circles for the emerging SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity panels in preparation for the next leg of their trip. Exciting ! More news next year on the ‘ Satellite Circles’ ( I wonder where they’re going ? Shhhh ! )
Helen Musker ‘Today is the 1st December 2019, my eldest sons birthday.
He was delivered into the world by emergency caesarian section, at the time of both of my pregnancies I was working as a midwife in the
NHS, I often wonder if we had been in a different country with no NHS the outcome would have been very different.
Today is also World AIDS Day, and I now work in sexual health. In 1985 when I started my nurse training and working for the NHS the messages to the public surrounding AIDS were of death and tomb stones, today HIV is treatable and has become a chronic illness rather than the death sentence it was, use of drugs now mean that the spread of HIV can be prevented.
So although today finds the NHS straining under pressure from people's expectations and demands, and for me as a nurse is maybe not as fun and respectful place to work as it was in the 1980's, I am still proud and glad to be a nurse and to have played a part in the NHS.’
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Helen adding her fingerprint and thoughts to the NHS panel of nationwide emerging artwork SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity
1st December 2019
Mrs HARTLEY adding her fingerprint to the NHS Panel of nationwide artwork SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity
‘Thoroughly enjoyed my career all the way through - I wouldn’t have done any other job’ Mrs J. D Hartley
1st December 2019
Retired Ward Sister.
Sir David Attenborough condemns 'shameful' PM decision to skip climate debate
Sir David Attenborough condemns 'shameful' PM decision to skip climate debate
The BBC environmentalist questioned the Prime Minister's decision to skip a debate on climate change🙂 Wonderful xxxTonight at Rainmaker Gallery 6-8pm. Meet artists Jordan Craig and Marla Allison. Everyone welcome! #Pattern #exhibition #nativeartists #rainmakergallery #Bristol
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A proud moment. This new NHS panel was launched today Tuesday 26th November 2019. Details - photographs and quote will be revealed after the election on the 12th December. There is no razzmatazz only reflection, breath and hopefully the hope that this new NHS panel will be filled with stories and fingerprints from as many people that have worked and still work in the NHS as possible. A celebration of this incredible service that we need to take care of. First of all I will travel to Barrow- in- Furness to collect a fingerprint from a very dear friend of mine...Joan Hartley a retired nurse who trained in the early 60’s. Thereafter many more.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the system of public healthcare providers in the United Kingdom. It includes NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the affiliated Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. They were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery.Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, apart from dental treatment and optical care. The colours on the panel will be Blue & Grey.
Timeline PhotosToday we celebrate the man who gave us the National Health Service. Happy Birthday Aneurin Bevan.
New panel ready for tomorrow. All will be revealed 🙂 SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity
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Stephanie Weston
A wonderful improvisation comedic company -to celebrate our wonderful instinctive reaction to laugh and have fun. The professional company was formed over 20 yrs ago and hasn’t ever sought funding. This has encouraged an independent approach - honing their craft...which is purely to entertain ! No compromise 🙂
‘Speaking as someone from the arts community who works very much “in the moment” with my comedy improvisation company “Instant Wit”, I love the way that Elaine has captured the identity of so many people who she met only fleetingly – truly spontaneous stuff! – but who are now part of a huge, impressive piece of art. So it’s both “in the moment” and long lasting – and now I’m proud to be a part of it too.’
Stephanie Weston - Co Founder of Instant Wit’ seen here adding her fingerprint to ‘Art - A Unifying Language’ Panel for the emerging nationwide artwork SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity
Another fingerprint on ‘ Art- A Unifying Language’ Full updates and quotes next week and onwards until August with this panel.
The colour on the Art panel is Dove Grey....This is the meaning....
‘It brought reassurance that trees were growing on dry land – a certain sign of life! The dove stood, therefore for new beginnings, great expectations and deliverance’
Tomorrow a new panel launch - .....and much more news soon.
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden | Larry Elliott
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden | Larry Elliott
The US favours small government and low taxes, but many developed countries thrive on the oppositeOver the last four yrs whilst walking across cities with SPOTtimespotTIME, the increasing numbers of people who sadly have no home became alarmingly evident. I don’t know exact figures and I havent walked across the same city twice ...however, the people who are homeless has become distressingly high. This is an action! One of hope, empathy and compassion, ..the human qualities that we need to nurture in each other.
Walked past the striking green ‘Hand of a River God’ by Vincent Woropay. Designed as a fountain, unfortunately for several years it has been missing the top portion of a figure supporting an obelisk. Commissioned 1985. It would be great to see it again- restored with its full comment.
Another late evening whilst another visitor came to lay her fingerprint on ‘ Art - A Unifying Language’ Panel....quote to follow from people soon - and then pictures.We wondered at the beauty of three gorgeous fingerprints and saw worlds within worlds...a flower print and writing.Three generations sitting together in time alongside each other - ancestry celebrated. When I made Turning ‘ages in 2012 - it celebrated memories, time and the relationship we had with words and wonder. Our ‘ love affair’ with the book. SPOTtimespotTIME will be completed next August 2020- A five year social document. A large fingerprint of society which is levelling - full of honour- inclusive and accessible. I have pictures - thousands of them documenting a process - a time together. Not something past, forward but always present. Flowing, instinctive and free. Thank you for a wonderful and inspiring evening Holly. More next week as lots of fingerprints coming this way.🧡🦋
Can’t wait 🙂 🧡
PATTERN Artists' Reception, 28 November 6-8pm - Rainmaker Gallery
You are warmly invited to join us at a festive artists’ reception for our winter exhibition ‘Pattern‘. Meet visiting artists Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne) and Marla Allison (Laguna Pueblo) at Rainmaker Gallery on Thursday 28th November, 6pm – 8pm. Jordan Ann Craig will give an informa...Wonderful 💚
P O R TA L II: Inside the Cordillera Occidental
This November Portal II: Inside the Cordillera Occidental a group exhibition at October Gallery features the work of Santos Motoapohua de la Torre, Jordan Ann Craig, Gonzalo Hernandez Carrillo and Antonio López Pinedo. The exhibition explores patterns, forms and insights from cultures historically ...- and it was wonderful! So inspiring, funny and in some moments.... heartbreaking. Cannot wait to see the show. 🙂Scratch performance of 'Shooting Icebergs' 16 Nov 2019
What a wonderful evening. Tonight a birth and death ; Two of the
many faces of theatre life....Jekyll and Hyde ! The early part of the evening I was privileged enough to be a witness audience at ‘The Actors Playground’ as a theatre company -births new ideas. Later in the evening - Red Rope Theatre Company add their fingerprints to the panel ‘ART - A Unifying Language’ SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity on the eve of their last performance of the SOLD OUT production of Jekyll and Hyde at Arnos Vale Cemetery. I arrive as they undo their magic and clear away their theatre set.
‘Unity is not something we need to create, it is something we need to recognise. So many things unify us, struggle, art, love - and they do so whether we want them to or not’ Matt Grinter - Red Rope Theatre Company.
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💚Except for three years by the Sussex seaside, William Blake spent his whole life in London. Though he hated the darkness of the city, he wrote that in London he could 'carry on his visionary studies... see visions, dream dreams.' ✨
Journey through the London locations important to Blake's life and work here: bit.ly/2Ql7Y8z
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The Actors' Playground
Alison Reid adding her fingerprint to the panel ‘ART - A Unifying Language’ ...part of the emerging nationwide artwork SPOTtimespotTIME. A chance meeting, with wonderful creative conversation and we came up with this wonderful panel launched by the inspirational Ken Loach. Thank you Alison.
‘ When we tell stories,
We begin to listen.
If we listen,
We might feel.
When we feel,
We can begin to understand.
When we understand,
We start to look for change.
Alison Reid 12th November 2019
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Sarah Class placing her fingerprints on ‘ ART - A Unifying Language’. SPOTtimespotTIME emerging nationwide artwork. Thank you Sarah, a four leaf clover in the centre of the work.
‘If we could only understand our Oneness and that we are not separate beings at all, but in fact we vibrate together in the same loving unified field of energy. Just think what we could achieve if we were not afraid to be the magnificent beings we were born with the potential to be. Just think of the splendor we’d create together!’ Sarah Class 11th November 2019
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Stormont and Belfast SPOTtimespotTIME new date ( due to election ) is now Monday 20th &21st January. Thank you.
It is with great honour that I launch this new panel for everyone who who work in the arts.
‘ This is a fist- because we cannot have unity until we resolve conflict between class interests and stop the oppression , exploitation and all the destruction of the environment that conflict brings’ Ken Loach
Launching ‘ ART - A Unifying Language’ A panel as part of the SPOTtimespotTIME emerging nationwide art artwork #fingerprintofunity.
New Panel Launch today. - ‘ ART - A Unifying Language’ Colour ‘ Dove Grey’ . How perfect for Remembrance Sunday #fingerprintofunity More details to follow. This panel is for all people in the arts and will be one of the 20 panels which exhibit as SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity
Tomorrow
Forever remembered,
Keeping you near,
Laughing memories comforting fallen tears.
Thank you.
Elaine Robinson Remembrance Sunday November 10th 2019
Another Panel completed. Cardiff Walkabout 19th April 2019 and The National Assembly for Wales 5th November 2019. The panel is one of 20 panels which will represent Wales on the SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity. The emerging nationwide artwork and social document asks people to think about how they feel when they are asked for their fingerprint. In the increasingly digital arena our perception of ourselves and our understanding regarding our own identity is changing rapidly. The 20 panels have been gathered over a 5 yr period and has captured unique time in history.
Conversations regarding austerity, identity, the environment and conservation concerns, population and fast changing dna developments are some of the conversations that have occurred on the city walkabouts.
The last panel will be completed in August 2020 and all 20 panels will be placed in individual clear resin ; Preserved in time. #spottimespottime#fingerprintofunity #elainerobinsonartist #elainerobinsonart #art #socialdocument #fingerprintofunity #wales #thenationalassemblyforwales #identity #DNA #population #inclusive #dignity #instinct #cellularcommunication #conservation #life #levelling #emegingnationwideartwork #cardiff #wales
Another Panel completed. Cardiff Walkabout 19th April 2019 and The National Assembly for Wales 5th November 2019. The panel is one of 20 panels and this one will represent Wales on the SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity. Emerging Nationwide artwork and social document asking people to think about how they feel when they are asked for their fingerprint. In the increasingly digital arena perception and our understanding regarding our identity is changing rapidly. The 20 panels have been gathered over a 5 yr period and captured a unique time in history.
Conversations regarding austerity, identity, the environment and conservation concerns, population and fast changing dna developments are some of the conversations that have occurred on the city walkabouts.
The last panel will be completed in August 2020 and all 20 panels will be placed in individual clear resin ; Preserved in time.
5th November SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity It was a wonderful day. Thank you so much Rhun ap lorworth, Fflur Davies, Heledd Roberts for the welcome and wonderful support. Thank you too for all the members, government and all who took part. Some super quotes and enthusiasm for the work. Also a big thank you to Anna King and Betsy for their invaluable help today - we made a great team.
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Beautiful Bristol sky whils running for a coach. 💚 New panel development and feeling very excited 🙂 London here I come x