Meera Shakti Osborne

Artists

Meera Shakti Osborne works alongside communities teaching sewing and printing to older women and running creative workshops with young people.

They work primarily with individuals on lower incomes, those who are unemployed, people of colour and people with experience of displacement or migration. Osborne describes their practice as one of collective healing through creative self-expression.

Osborne is the co-founder of the Department for International Dance Development (DIDD), a collective of women and non-binary individuals who meet to dance and share food. Osborne graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015 and later in 2018 from Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Cairo, Egypt.

2024

In 2024 Osborne ran workshops for teenagers from Inspire Walworth and co-created a thoughtful and hopeful installation at Peckham’s Sky Shopping City called Sun Shines in the Ends. This was Osborne’s first long term public realm installation and was part of Rye Lane Reconnected, a year long community-led creative programme.

Osborne also took part in panel discussions and community celebrations as part of the programme.

2020

In 2020 Peckham Platform commissioned Osborne and producer A.G for Digital Tapestry, a Youth Platform project exploring self-care and art in ten weekly online sessions. Osborne and A.G also created a Digital Sound Tapestry and took part in an online artist discussion.

Artist Meera Shakti Osbourne standing in front of trees wearing an orange t-shirt

Resources

Resources

Resource: Twelve, drug and alcohol misuse

These resources offer a range of reference materials around drug and alcohol misuse, focusing on movies, music, art and books.

Resource list

Article: Emily Druiff, Reactivating the archive

Emily Druiff, Trustee and Founder of Peckham Platform discusses Southwark Education Resource Project (SERP) Reactivated and the significance of archives in the spring 2018 issue of The National Society for Education in Art & Design’s AD magazine.

Article

Case study: Southwark Education Research Project testimonials

Barbara Steveni introduces the methodology behind the radical Southwark Education Research Project (SERP)(1989-95).

Case study

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