Edi McGurk

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Edi McGurk is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Their work focuses on care and intimacy, crip time and crip community, and access and solidarity. They are based in Essex and London. Most of the time they’re based in their bed. 

Edi plays with visuals, sound, textiles and words. They predominantly work with bedsheets, pillows, notebooks, audiovisual equipment they’ve found on online auctions, and conversations. Their practice is political and collaborative - spanning installations, print, photography, moving image, audio and protest banners. With a background in facilitation and community engagement, Edi centres spaciousness, process, and engagement in their work. 

Edi is currently working on an MRes at the Royal College of Art (2025-2027), supported by scholarship funding from the RCA, engaging in practice-led research exploring crip as method and the disruptive and generative potential of the creative practices of sick, disabled and trans people. Essentially, they are interested in how sick, disabled and trans people build alternative ways of living and being, and how creative works help others to engage in that practice of imagination and cultivating hope.

They are part of the current round of Voices Radio’s DJ programme and they recently completed safe + sound school’s creative short form audio course (2026). They previously took part in The Other MA alternative art school in Southend (2022-2024), which they continue to describe as one of the best decisions they’ve ever made. They contributed an essay on practicing solidarity and care in alternative art schools to TOMA’s recent book ‘How to Set Up An Art School’. 


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