The Bone and Guts People are a group of young people working in collaboration with community artist Seamus Killick who explore the connection between creativity and mental health. The core members of the group are Lizzy Robertson and Faith Gibson Knowles, along with artists Robyn Dainese and Maya Rose-Edwards, who have joined them through the process. The group evolved over the space of 8 months, meeting weekly to discuss everything from bad dreams to creation myths to dental surgery.
This is a youth-led project which has been guided, facilitated and coordinated by Seamus and the other artists through workshops exploring different materials from photography to ceramics to textiles. The group have remained deeply curious of how their internal landscapes relate to human evolution and the origins of everything. They aren’t afraid to wonder what happens after we die and to challenge binary systems which seek to limit us.
The name and structure of the project came from a theory created by one of the artists - that you can divide the human character into two groups; bone people and guts people. At the heart of this project lies the discovery that to exist in harmony we need both the bones of solid foundation and the guts of fluid adaptation.