Gillian Dyson is an artist, academic and researcher based in Leeds, UK. Gillian makes live performance, video and visual art works that explore identity, site, and memory. Her work has been exhibited and performed in national and international festivals, galleries, and theatres, including Konsthallen, Gothenberg Sweden, Baltic Newcastle Gateshead, Tetley Leeds, and Whitworth Manchester. Gillian also devises and directs community and educational socially engaged or site works and has been a member of several artist-led initiatives included Hull Time Based Arts and New Work Network. She was Acting Chair for CLAY (Centre for Live Art Leeds). Gillian’s current research is an exploration of the somatic experience of aging, using Butoh gesture and movement, and voice. Most recently she performed at Emergency 2023 / Word of Warning Manchester and the International Forrum of Performance Art, Drama Greece. She is Senior Lecturer in Performance with Leeds Beckett University and has a PhD with University of Glasgow for practice-based research in performance. Artist’s statement: “I make work about a woman’s experience. I am trying to express what it’s like to breathe, think, feel, to communicate the feminine, exploring the politics of identity which are defined by the things we surround ourselves with, the spaces we occupy, the bodies we become.” www.gilliandyson.co.uk