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We are happy to announce that the 33rd recipient of The Creatives Grant is JN Benjamin. We really enjoyed reading the two pieces she sent. Her project, our mothers’ stories, explores who people are before we came to know them. It’s something we’ve been thinking a lot about recently, and we look forward to more from that project as it comes.
BIO: JN Benjamin is a writer, broadcaster, and multidisciplinary artist from South London. Before turning her hand to writing, she trained as an actor and has performed on stage in London including most recently at the Young Vic theatre. As a critic she regularly writes for leading industry publication The Stage and is an occasional contributor on BBC radio 4’s flagship arts programme, Front Row. Her features and opinion pieces have been published online and in print in Skin Deep, Exeunt Magazine and The Peckham Peculiar, amongst others. JN Benjamin is also the author of an irregular cultural highlights newsletter, which you can sign up to here.
In addition to her journalistic writing practice, JN Benjamin is the creator of our mothers’ stories, an ambitious multidisciplinary artwork about the lives of our mothers before they had any children. The project uses printed photographs of women that were taken in the time before they had children as a prompt to facilitate intergenerational conversations.
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