Join artist, Kitt and gallerist, curator, and producer, Jennifer Gilbert for this in-conversation event. We’ll be exploring the ideas and themes in Kitt’s exhibition at God’s House Tower, While We Slumber and discussing disability arts, access and activism.

 About the event 

Artist voices is a series of online discussions and conversations that aim to support artist development by unpacking and demystifying key topics and issues of the visual arts ecology through discussion with artists and cultural workers.

The event will be hosted on Zoom. Details of how to join will be shared in the days leading up to the event via Eventbrite.

Please note: this talk will be recorded and uploaded to the ‘a space’ Youtube Channel after the event.

About Jennifer Gilbert 

After receiving a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Central Saint Martins in London, Jennifer completed a foundation in Art Therapy, with the British Association of Art Therapists. This led to completing a Masters in Art, Health and Wellbeing, whilst working as a support worker for a group of schizophrenic artists, separately running art workshops and being a link worker with adults isolated in the community for a variety of reasons including anxiety issues and learning disabilities. 

As the Manager of a national arts charity for seven years, she gained extensive experience supporting, exhibiting, selling, and advocating on behalf of undiscovered, disabled, and self-taught artists’ works from around the world. This included working with galleries such as Pallant House Gallery, Compton Verney and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, as well as with organisations such as HOUSE Festival Brighton, Arts & Health South West and Disability Arts Online. Jennifer has also worked 1-2-1 and in small groups with learning disabled artists in a day care setting, so understands the notion of personalised responses to the people she supports, as well as treating everyone as individuals. Finally, Jennifer is a CLORE fellow, having taken part in their leadership programme in 2019.

About Kitt

Disabled sculptor Kitt (A.K.A. ‘Lady Kitt’) does ‘Mess Making As Social Glue’, driven by insatiable curiosity about the social functions of art. Kitt’s work is shaped by a semi-nomadic childhood (which included not receiving formal education until age 14). They work on long term, collaborative endeavours aiming to create situations where sculptures offer solutions, solace, connections and mischief.

Recent / current work has been commissioned by The Estate of Gordon Matta Clark, USA, & No More Nowt, Co Durham (“Feral Alchemies” 2025-6),  QUEERCIRCLE, London (“Drag Declares Emergency” 2024), Craftspace, Birmingham (“Drag Declares Emergency” 2022-23) & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (“enSHRINE” 2021). Kitt’s work has been exhibited internationally including Atlanta Contemporary (USA), Saatchi Gallery (UK) & National Centre on Restorative Justice (USA). In 2026 their work will be presented at Art Basel, Miami (USA) by David Fireman Galley (New York) and The Estate of Gordon Matta Clark. Kitt’s work has been collected by institutions including the Social Art Library, Durham University & the Magistrates Association. They previously served on  MIMA Advisory Board, as Crafts Council trustee and co-lead of Social Art Network UK. Kitt has been shortlisted for the 2025 Creative Health ‘Practising Well Award’ and was NE Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year finalist, 2024. Their work has won the VAMHN Arts Award 2023, been longlisted for the 2023, 2024 & 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize.

Last year someone involved in one of Kitt’s projects said being part of it “… made my world feel alive again”.

About the exhibition 

While We Slumber by Kitt (A.K.A. Lady Kitt) is an exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower.

The exhibition begins with a simple question: what do we really share when we sleep in close proximity? Drawing on the familiar rituals of sleepovers – midnight feasts, whispered conversations, star-gazing, makeshift forts and sleeping bag stair toboggans – Kitt explores how social sleeping can deepen emotional connection and reshape our understanding of care, intimacy and belonging.

Central to Kitt’s research is the idea of ‘emotional heritage’: the way feelings accumulate within buildings, and how they are shaped, shared, and passed on through the communities who inhabit them. At God’s House Tower, this inheritance is layered and complex. Through archival and site-based research, Kitt traces a history of communal slumber within the building – from incarceration in the 1700s and 1800s, to more recent events such as artist residencies and a 24 hour ukulele jam.

While We Slumber invites audiences to consider (and experience) how social sleeping might alter our relationship to shared spaces and to one another. Through this lens, the exhibition becomes a reflective, sensory exploration of how buildings remember, and how those memories are shaped and reshaped through collective acts of being together in vulnerability and rest.