Gaylene  Gould is an artist who works with people, places and materials to create space for healing. Inspired by marginalised and buried histories, she collaborates with communities to unearth those stories and connect them with their own. The stories are transformed through conversation, collective-making and ritual to create restorative  artworks, installations and experiences. She often collaborates with other global majority artists to realise these visions. Together they've landed a spaceship in public space to share memories, invited people to talk & listen to themselves more deeply and reimagined a 21st century public healing well inspired by a 17th Century Black well keeper.   Her own making practice blends digital collage, textile, media and other forms to build these worlds. 

 

The projects are designed to provoke and restore, offering respite for participants and inspiration to policy makers,  encouraging them to work towards a more inclusive world. Afterwards, gifts from the projects  are shared to  offer support to more people.  Her work has been commissioned by the Tate, V&A, Durham University, Clore Leadership, BAM, Light Up Kilburn and exhibited at Wellcome Collection and NAE Open.

 

Trained as a coach, Gaylene also has over thirty years experience as a cultural leader heading up a range of cultural divisions and working as a Cultural Ambassador for the Mayor of London (2016-20). She writes and broadcasts, creating radio documentaries  for BBC Radio 4 including Transcendence How Can I Feel Art Again, and hosts the Serpentine podcast series  Reworlding  and Intimacies that explore how to transform our relationship with the world, each other and ourselves.