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Report on Kim Percy's Visualizing the Invisible: Dyslexia Through Art

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Report on Kim Percy’s Visualizing the Invisible: Dyslexia Through Art

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Report on Kim Percy’s Visualizing the Invisible: Dyslexia Through Art

Clip title: Interview with Artist Kim Percy | Visualising the Invisible | PhD by research on Dyslexic Artists Author / channel: Susan Nethercote URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwl6OfzuXs

Summary

This video features an insightful interview with artist and PhD candidate Kim Percy, discussing her practice-based research and accompanying exhibition, “Visualising the Invisible.” Her project delves into the often-unseen experiences of dyslexia through the powerful medium of visual art, aiming to challenge stigma and create a visible representation of successful creative dyslexics for those who might come after her.

Percy’s personal journey forms the core of her research. Diagnosed with dyslexia later in life following her son’s diagnosis, she embarked on a quest to understand her own cognitive differences. She found a distinct lack of visible role models or resources for creative dyslexics, particularly in Australia, leading her to investigate the strengths associated with dyslexia rather than its deficits. Her work explores the psychological and social aspects of living with dyslexia, including the “oscillation of disclosure”—the internal debate about whether to reveal one’s neurodivergence due to persistent societal stigmas. Percy highlights that while dyslexia is the largest segment of neurodivergence, making up 10-20% of the population, many dyslexics are underemployed or face negative perceptions due to misconceptions about their intelligence or capability.

The exhibition itself is a multi-disciplinary exploration, reflecting Percy’s diverse artistic practice. Artworks like “The Swing” and “Oscillation of Disclosure” utilize video and sculpture, often incorporating water imagery, to metaphorically represent the subconscious and the fluid, uncertain nature of disclosure. “The Real Thing,” a digital combine incorporating augmented reality (AR), delves into the concept of “masking” or “passing” in neurodivergent individuals, illustrating how people might hide their challenges to fit in. Her photographic series featuring clouds and circles symbolize optimism and new perspectives, embodying the strengths of visual-spatial awareness and narrative reasoning that often accompany dyslexia. Further, the painting series “Mountain of Words” and “The Space Between” visually translate the difficulty of reading by emphasizing the often-overlooked “white space” between letters, revealing new patterns and interpretations for viewers.

Ultimately, Kim Percy’s research and exhibition emphasize the unique capacity of visual art to communicate complex internal experiences that language alone might obscure. By transforming abstract concepts of neurodiversity into tangible, accessible forms, her work opens a vital dialogue, fostering empathy and understanding. Her accompanying children’s book, “The Girl Who Tried,” written in an accessible style for adults and carers, further extends this conversation by illustrating the challenges and strengths of dyslexia. The project serves as a celebration of difference, resilience, and creative strength, providing inspiration and a much-needed visible pathway for individuals navigating their own neurodivergent identities.

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In this video podcast I’m chatting with fellow post graduate student and soon-to-be Dr Kim Percy. Kim is a multi-media artist, designer, educator, curator and photographer who in the process of completing her PhD by research. Her studio was just down the hall from mine at uni and we’ve become great friends during my time as a post-grad artist. Kim’s practice-based research for her PhD focusses on Dyslexia and Kim has produced an incredible body of artwork for her graduating exhibition, alongside a brilliant thesis, outlining her discoveries. Today we are chatting all about it alongside giving a look inside her exhibition.

Links for Kim: Website: https://www.kimpercy.com/phd-exhibition Emails: kim@designscope.com.au, k.percy@federation.edu.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimpercyartist/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KimPercyArt Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimpercy/

Music Soundstripe: Growing Pains, Featherland, 0JKO0RM2UHTN5TIN

Links for Susan 🧑🏻‍🎨 My Online Courses: https://www.susannethercote.com/onlin… 🖼️ My Art, Prints, Podcast, Blog etc: https://www.susannethercote.com ☕️: Donate the price of a coffee on my KOFI page to support this channel: https://ko-fi.com/susannethercote (Thank you!)

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MFA, postgradartist, phdartist, artistinterview, susannethercote, susannethercoteart, dyslexia, dyslexicartist, dyslexicresearch

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