Salvaged metal bus bars and handrails, convex mirror, ticket roll.
Image credits: Ellen Dixon
“Kitty McKay focuses on the architecture of our local transport system, observing the interaction between people and the constructed specifics of this very public space. Through lived experience and research, they critique the rigidity and absurdity of these environments. Normative encounters are observed and in the words of the artist ‘the long way round’ is explored, providing a platform – no pun intended – to explore alternative spaces for people with disability. We are invited through their installations to step physically into a world exposed as exclusionary. Grab handles are rendered useless. Folding chairs, unserviceable. Exterior and CrossView mirrors focused diagonally across the gallery. Not quite replicating themselves, they expose the space in between the installations reflecting on the invisibility of disability. Kitty questions whose spaces are made for. ”