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Sarah Smizz

Here For A Good Time, Not A Long Time


Artist / Live-Drawer / [PHD] Researcher / Radiation-Oncology Grad / Collaborator / works in Public Health / Adventurer / Optimist / Creative-methods-campaigner / Photographer / Occasional Designer / Excessive Tweeter / An All Hoper / Practicing Kindness / Re-evaluating Life / Trying to make the world a better, more equal & fun place / Ramen Lover / Trying to remind people that there’s a huge difference between being alive and FEELIN’ alive / Northern Lights Chaser / NYC + Tokyo lover / Loves a colour gradient / Yorkshire Kid / wanna be surfer  / rides fixie / Local Cllr.

I LOVE meeting new people
so get in touch :  
smizz.fo.shizz@gmail.com

Greatest Hits

  1. Live Drawing

  2. Writings on Creativity & Adult Social Care



Chapter 1
New*
/// 2024-2021


  1. Don’t Panic! Viva la Viva!

  2. Skate Park Murals
  3. Makers Space
  4. New Leaf & Gatherings!

  5. Camp Get Together!

  6. Arty Party in the Park!

  7. Surf dreams

  8. A Local Councillor

  9. Supporting Our Communities



Chapter2
2021-2018


  1. Care & Exhaustion (Donx Creates)

  2. RESILIENCE IS FUTILE

  3. Active Withernsea

  4. Giving Voice

  5. Double Agency

  6. Hospital Adventures

  7. Critical Arts in Health

  8. PHUCKUPPERY

  9. Camp Do It Together

  10. Get Doncaster Moving

  11. *Live Drawing Gigs*

  12. Creative Radiotherapy Communication

  13. Positive Deviance

  14. Other cool healthcare projects I’ve worked on

  15. Drawings On The Go


Chapter 2018-2010 

(A Chosen Selection of older works/projects, no date order)

  1. F/O/R/C/E

  2. ReAdvertise

    (Site Gallery Emerging Artist Residency)

  3. POWERnoid

  4. #Class

    (Winkleman Gallery, NYC)

  5. CAKE EVERYONE

    (Previously CAKE Artspace, Sheffield)

  6. CAaD

    (contemporary art as dialogue collective)

  7. Art School inside the Art School

  8. AREA Chicago
  9. Project Biennale

Chapter 2010 & before


  1. Utopian Protagonists
  2. Shadow Cities


Fun Stuff!

  1. I love making Spotify Playlists
  2. I love making Travel Videos
  3. I like to Blog from time to time

Writing
Coming soon
Archive
Old websites


Mark



Smizz Likes You!


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Hello!
I'm Sarah Smizz 

→ Artist → Graphic Facilitator → Award Winning Radiotherapist (theraputic radiographer) → SHU VC-scholarship PHD Researcher → Lecturer → Healthcare Innovation Designer → System-complexity thinker → Social-Justice & → Equity advocator → Optimist/dreamer/dream-team-member.

→ Re-evaluating life. Here for a good time, not a long time.


Want to work together?! Or say HI? I love getting chai-tea lattes and fun drinks & finding the best ramens and sandwiches.

 Holla at me: Smizz@sarahsmizz.com
 or more directly at: smizz.fo.shizz@gmail.com

 Tweet me: @smizz 

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I come from a super working class background, born & raised in the Donx (Doncaster, SY, UK). I grew up in relative poverty, escaping domestic violence which made my mom, younger bro & I homeless for about 7 months (I was 15). I’m the first person to finish high-school & go to university.  When things started to work out, I got super sick & it changed everrrrything.

But I’ve been given another second chance to live, so I am going to take it. When you’re not sure how much time you have - every thing counts. Things that seemed important before - turns out they’re not that important. But the really important stuff, are the things that we think we can forget about - come back to when we have time/money. But this would be a mistake. Time is spent, money is circulated. I often try and ask myself when I’m not sure: what would you do if you wasn’t afraid?

I guess you don’t usually see this kind of over-sharing, too-much-information on a persons website on the about me section. 

But i’ve spent a long time be ashamed of this stuff, when I realize that it’s my own power.

I have a super unique perspective in multiple systems. I understand alot of public health issues, because I lived it, my family lives in it. But I have also studied it, and worked in it.

I understand what is super important to patients and loved one in the system. But clinically understand the barriers that are built into the culture and systems. I understand how carers voices need to be amplified and re-thought about in a system that forgets the really human, complex things. I know how (higher) education doesn’t really have voices like mine in it, or tries to sterotype it, or not do any research into it. 

But it means that this double-agency of mine makes me the perfect person to work on your project.


I can make really complex things become more accessible /// fun /// engaging /// simple.

I can understand and turn complicated subject matter & its difficult terminology (such as in healthcare, medical, philosophical, governmental policy, etc) into everyday language through the power of image!

I can help to bring new ways to thinking and seeing big system stuff. 
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I am MOTIVATED by:

→ wanting to make the world a better place!

→ trying to enhance healthcare outcomes and experiences, and amplifying marginalized voices

→ I LOVE travelling, especially to NYC & Tokyo

→ I love education & trying to make it accessible to everyone!

→ I love working with people and their communities!

→ Love growing plants and drawing the world around me!



One version of my multiple Resumes (this is my research one)