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Artist Statement: Aidan Moesby is an artist, curator and writer bringing a nuanced approach to the emotional context of working with climate change and the deep inter-connectedness between the natural and social environments within modern life. 

Through a body of work that is at once playful, intimate, questioning and deeply human he works extensively in the spaces where art, technology and wellbeing intersect. 

Moesby harnesses the metaphor of weather to illustrate the unpredictable and often invisible nature of human emotions. Just as weather patterns shift and change, so too do our emotional states, often beyond our control and difficult to predict. Emotional states—commonly perceived as abstract and private—are transformed into something tangible, readable, and even communal. By mapping emotions through the language of weather, the work invites us to reflect on how we navigate these fluctuating states and how they can be understood not just as personal but as shared human experiences.

His practice includes both Disability Arts and mainstream representation as artist and curator. He works nationally and internationally across physical and digital platforms.

Curatorially his work explores themes including climate change, identity, loneliness and connectivity through a lens of disability and intersectionality. Access and inclusion are at the heart of his exhibition design. This follows into his work as a Cultural Access Consultant working with organisations to develop awareness and understanding of Diversity and Equity and implement meaningful strategies and actions around this.

 

'Masks Connected' (2014); Lightbox/Print 

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Banner image description: ‘Breathing Space (i)’ Public Sculpture for Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust. Corten Steel, 2022. Commissioned by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Two large steel parantheses (open and closed brackets) stand upright in a grassy field. There is a large space between them, as though framing the grass and trees behind them as 'within' the brackets.