Amy Corcoran recently completed an LLM in Human Rights Law and is currently in the midst of a PhD investigating the value art brings to resistance. She is a freelance writer, writing for her own law blog, and having been published both academically and in independent publications. Amy is involved with groups campaigning around human rights issues, and supporting those involved in protest. More recently, she was one organiser of the UK Humanitarian Intervention Party (UKHIP), which has been raising awareness of the situation for migrants in Calais. Her interest in art is longstanding, having exhibited in a number of galleries and completed professional illustration work. In incorporating art into her work on social justice, Amy aims to further these goals and reach new audiences.
Further writing work can be found at: lawiswar.wordpress.com
Barnie Emma is an illustrator and filmmaker. Her first documentary ‘From Coats to Capes’ was nominated for Best Scottish Short Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007 and ‘Celtic, Astronaut, No! Spiderman’ was commissioned by Channel 4’s 4Talent. After challenging the framework of her stylistics, she directed and produced ‘Still Life’, an experimental documentary on property development. The film was judged by Nicolas Philibert (‘Etre et Avoir’) who awarded it second prize in its category at Open City Docs Fest 2012. She has spent some time in Kosovo filming the effects of visa restriction and the progress of country finally starting to gain recognition following the political unrest with Serbia.
She is now fusing documentary and illustration, working in stop motion animation.
Further illustration work can be found at: www.barnie.xyz
outré
Together they are outré. Artists born but twelve hours apart, juxtaposing art and politics, surrealism and normality.
