Sleep – Richard Downes

Author: Richard Downes

Sleep (see video below) is based on a collection of monokus I wrote on the theme of Sleep.

• Monokus based on titles from Max Richter’s Sleep album;
• Still images, words and breaths by myself;
• Music and atmospherics by Ivan Riches;
• Film editing by Ivan Riches and Richard Downes.

Author bio: Richard is founder member of Disabled People’s Direct Action Network, experience of coordinating pan advocacy services at Brent Advocacy Concerns, engagement work at Merton Centre for Independent Living, currently practicing as an emerging socially engaged artist and spoken word artist with Disability Arts Online where he was in the first cohort of Associate Artists and Artist/Ambassador with Outside In. Life time experience of disability which is where is interest in social engagement as an artist mainly resides. (he/him)