Our emotions are real.

"Painting/drawing made in the Drawing and Painting Socialist Support Group, on a zoom call, while staying at the Hermes Hotel in Kingston (under the old management) in order to be able to join an early picket line at the University the next morning. I just wanted to draw faces and this is what emerged on the paper. "--Provided by the artist.

5 blue cat-like faces drawn on a yellow background with text reading "Our emotions are real. Being relative is very tiring".

[London, England : 2023]

1 sheet : mixed materials ; cm

"Nicola Field is a writer, researcher, artist and socialist activist."--From artist's website.

Title provided by the artist.

Our Emotions Are Real is a travelling visitor-participation installation focused on neurodiverse creative engagement and innovation. Fourteen large-scale digital prints from wild, expressive neurodivergent paintings, drawings and writings – with art materials, noise reduction and spaces for visitors to reflect, draw, dream, protest, tell their stories – and comment on and be part of the show. This piece is an original of one of the prints used in the installation.--Adapted from artist's documentation.

Wellcome Collection 3389878i

Series exhibited at Art Bank, 8 March - 1 April 2024.

Series exhibited at Marxism 2024: a festival of socialist ideas, University College London, 4 - 7 July 2024.

Series exhibited at Arts as Refuge conference, New Art Gallery, Walsall, 19 - 20 September 2025.

Series exhibited at London Arts and Health creative sandpit session, Wellcome Collection, 15 October 2025.

Series exhibited at Sand Ends Arts & Community Centre, 31 October - 2 November 2025.

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