Rory Sheridan is a London based socially engaged arts producer, whose work engages with the relationship between artistic practice and representing neurodiverse communities.

Rory is passionate about social justice, equality and uses the visual arts as a platform to stimulate dialogue and exchange. His work is focused on process, conversation and challenging audiences to reconsider the way that neurodiverse individuals and groups are represented.

Rory’s audio visual installation The Open Mouth That Offers Up Nothing was the first installation to try to represent people who stammer both psychologically and physically. This work was published by the Evening Standard and widely well received by the stammering community and other artistic communities. The Open Mouth That Offers Up Nothing led Rory to win the Photofusion award.

Rory has worked in multiple fields of art and design, youth participation and diversity and inclusion. He has supported widening participation programmes, including specific projects such as Album: Where We Belong in partnership with Autograph APB

Rory was nominee for the Positive Role Model Award for Age at the National Diversity Awards 2023.

Rory is currently working at Mencap, as Governance Inclusion Lead supporting and leading on inclusion on Mencap’s Board of Trustees and Voices Council, embedding inclusive practice within governance.

Rory has founded Hiatus Collective, a cross-arts collective whose aim is to encourage and support those whose voices are rarely heard.

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Group Exhibitions

Intro/Outro, Nursery Gallery, London College of Communication, 2015
Judged Response, Lower Gallery, London College of Communication, 2017
Hiatus, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, 2017
ADEPT-GAZE, Launch Exhibition, The Peckham Pelican, 2017
LCC Degree Shows: Show One, London College of Communication, 2018

Event Curation

Opening the Dialogue, Hiatus Collective (Curator), 2019

Celebration of the Gift Neurodivergent Expression & Artistry, Hiatus Collective, 2020

Speaker and Panel Speaker/Chair

Judged Response, Panel Chair, London College of Communication, 2017

Silence on Campus: making a noise about stammering, Panel Speaker, SOAS University of London, 2019

In Discussion Celebration of Stammering & the Arts, Panel Speaker, 2021

Awards and Nominations

National Diversity Awards 2023 - Positive Role Model for Age

Published Photographic Work

Stammering Awareness Day, 2016
Defence Stammering Network launch, gov.uk Ministry of Defence, 2015

Out of the mouth trap, Wellcome Collection, 2021

Publications

Two Pounds and a Dream, Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2017
Two Pounds and a Dream, London College of Communication Library Zine Collection

You are Here Magazine, 2016