Access Docs for Artists

Access Docs for Artists is an online resource made in 2019 by Leah Clements, Alice Hattrick, and Lizzy Rose after a residency at Wysing Arts Centre. It offers information and guidance, primarily for disabled art workers, on making an access doc or 'rider' - a document that lists your access needs and can be shared with the people you work with.

Leah Clements

Leah Clements is an artist based in London whose practice spans film, photography, performance, writing, installation, and other media. Her work is concerned with the relationship between the psychological, emotional, and physical, often through personal accounts of unusual or hard-to-articulate experiences. Her practice also focuses on sickness/cripness/disability in art, in critical and practical ways. She is currently an artist in residence at Serpentine Galleries, and her recent solo show ‘The Siren of the Deep’ was at Eastside Projects in summer 2021.

Alice Hattrick

Alice Hattrick is the author of Ill Feelings (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021). The book tells the story of their and their mother's experience with 'medically unexplained' illness. Alice’s work is included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma, 2020). They are the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists, a resource for disabled and/or chronically ill artists, curators and writers, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose.

Lizzie Rose

Lizzy Rose (1988-2022) was a British artist based in Margate, Kent. She used her experience of Crohns disease to make artwork, exploring themes of chronic illness communities online and the culture surrounding them, narrative storytelling, and humour. She was an Associate at Open School East in 2018 and was part of the Crate programming team from 2016 onwards. From 2019-22 Rose spent the majority of her time in hospital but continued working from her hospital bed, using her Instagram feed which documented her illness as her artistic practice. (IG: @lizzyrosequartz)