Post-Grad Interest Group: Neurodivergent Creatives

Creative practices for different ways of sensing, attending and making

The Neurodivergent Creatives Interest Group (NCIG) is a cross-disciplinary space for artists, researchers and practitioners interested in how neurodivergent ways of sensing, attending, thinking and working can inform creative practice.

Rather than approaching neurodivergence primarily through diagnosis or deficit, the group explores what neurodivergent experience can do within artistic practice.

During 2026–2027, NCIG will develop a programme of artist-led workshops, practical experiments and conversations. Each gathering begins with a particular creative practice or question and creates a space for participants to experience, test and discuss different approaches to making.

Sessions may explore areas such as sensory attention, repetition, movement, sound, image-making, writing, stimming, alternative working rhythms, access and creative processes.

Who can participate?

The group welcomes postgraduate students, PhD researchers, alumni and invited external practitioners from across creative disciplines.

You do not need a formal diagnosis to participate. We welcome anyone interested in neurodivergent-informed approaches to art, research and creative practice.

No specialist knowledge of neurodiversity is required.

What happens at a gathering?

Rather than conventional meetings, most NCIG gatherings are organised around a shared creative encounter.

A session might include:

• an artist-led practical workshop
• an experimental creative methodology
• a facilitated conversation
• sharing of works-in-progress or research
• an invited neurodivergent artist or researcher
• informal time to meet other participants

The emphasis is on doing, experiencing and exchanging, rather than requiring participants to speak about personal experiences or diagnoses.

2026–27 Pre-programme asks

How might neurodivergent ways of attending, sensing and working generate different creative practices?

Across a series of workshops and encounters, invited practitioners and members of the group will introduce methods from their own artistic practices.

The programme will move between different disciplines and forms of attention—from bodily and sensory practices to writing, visual art, sound, performance and interdisciplinary research.

Rather than defining a single neurodivergent aesthetic, the programme creates opportunities to encounter different ways of making, thinking and composing.

To join, please email neurodivergetcreativesual@gmail.com