About — Naomi Woddis

I am a photographer, writer and podcaster whose photography includes portraiture and still life. The aim of my work is to be clear, compassionate and honest. I am also interested in opening new dialogues about mental health and chronic invisible illness, living with both conditions myself. Listen to my podcast ‘The Two of Us’ (originally aired on Reel Rebels Radio) where I talk to writers and artists about their work and how it relates to mental health and emotional well-being. I regularly post new photographs in my journal

I have been Artist-in-Residence at Culpeper Community Garden, Islington and my work has been exhibited at Ovalhouse, The Albany, Lewisham Art House, The Nunnery Gallery (as part of the Shape Open 2013), The Pie Factory, Margate and Free Space Project, Kentish Town.

Solo Work:

The One I Love – Residency and exhibition at Free Space Project, Kentish Town Health Centre

Poetry Snapshots - Photographic exhibition in collaboration with Apples & Snakes at The Albany, Deptford

Seasons - Photographic exhibition at Oval House Theatre

Group Shows and collaborations:

Everyday Delights - Free Space Project, Kentish Town

Discovery - Free Space Project, Kentish Town

Traces – Free Space Project, Kentish Town

Voluntary Action Islington Exhibits – VAI, Islington

Portrait Salon 2015 - The Embassy Tea Gallery, London

Shape Open 2013 – The Nunnery Gallery and Lewisham Art House

Revealing the Invisible – The Pie Factory, Margate

Open Notebooks with writer Karen McCarthy Woolf

Without Words – a Black History Month photographic exhibition of London’s favourite spoken word artists at Cottons Caribbean Restaurant

Publicity photographs – Bloodaxe Books ‘Ten’

Presentations and Radio:

The Two of Us - a radio show and podcast on Reel Rebels Radio talking to writers and artists about their work and how it relates to mental health

The Conversational – discussions with writers’ on Reel Rebels Radio

Life Stories Cafe: True Storytelling – Wolfson and Tay Independent bookshop

Poetry and Photography: Making Links – Talk for The Complete Works National Development programme for Black and Asian poets

In Practice - The Royal Academy

Art and Mental Health Forum, University of the Arts, London, 2017

Published:

Writing: National Gallery Podcast Poetry special commission – Gallery at Night, Trespass Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain Poetry Journal, London Magazine (review), Jupiter, Wasifari, ‘Life is Music’ (Pamphlet 2007), Rising, Libertine, Split Screen, Double Bill, Stairs and Whispers & Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different poetry anthologies, Litmus and Fragmentary.

Photography: Metro, The Observer.