Ellie Page

Ellie Page

Ellie Page

Consultant & Producer | Arts & Health

BIOGRAPHY

Ellie Page is a highly experienced accessibility consultant, visual arts producer, editor and youth & mental health worker. She currently works at Outside In, as the North West Programme Manager and is also Head of...

STILL ILL OK

STILL ILL. OK? Still Ill OK is an art, activism & research project I set up a few years ago, as well as the moniker under which I run workshops, talks and courses. For the...

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BIOGRAPHY

Ellie Page is a highly experienced accessibility consultant, visual arts producer, editor and youth & mental health worker. She currently works at Outside In, as the North West Programme Manager and is also Head of Marketing and Comms for DAiSY: Disability Arts in Surrey. Alongside two fellow disabled womxn artists, she is a Founding Co-Director of TRIAD³, a virtual artist’s studio. She has run an award-winning art ‘lack-of-movement’ in Manchester, under the moniker Still Ill OK since 2018 and coordinated the UK Disability Arts Alliance, #WeShallNotBeRemoved, during the pandemic. She works closely with the Hearing Voices Network, and is a working postgraduate in the field of social and alternative approaches to “psychosis”. She has exhibited artwork in several exhibitions, and has designed and delivered numerous workshops and training programmes for neurodivergent adults. She currently provides access consultation and mentoring to third sector organisations, and advocacy services to disabled adults working in the cultural/entertainment sectors. She co-hosts Lively Minds: The Mental Health Podcast and looks forward to continuing her studies at PhD level.

The Pride Parade Goes on Without Me

Outside In presents an exhibition of artworks and poetry exploring the intersect of LGBTQIA+ and disabled activist identities in Manchester. The exhibition will open at...
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LGBTQIA+ x Disabled Activism: Share Your Experiences!

Ellie Ora Page is making a zine to accompany an upcoming exhibition at People's History Museum in February 2024. The mini-zine will include prompts for...
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Lively Minds: The Mental Health Podcast

Led by people with lived experience, Lively Minds is a UK-based podcast about mental health challenges that go beyond the ebb and flow of the...
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This Way, That Way – Exhibition @ Next Door Gallery

Venture Arts, Outside In and The Whitworth have joined forces to produce this new exhibition at Next Door Gallery in Didsbury, showcasing work by our...
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Exploring Collections: Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection

(Image: Primrose Pathway by James Price. Credit: The Whitworth Art Gallery) It is with great excitement that I can announce that applications are open from...
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STILL ILL OK

Still Ill OK is an art, activism & research project I set up a few years ago, as well as the moniker under which I run workshops, talks and courses. For the website, I have interviewed numerous arts coordinators, Hollywood actors, reviewed access at venues, and created a movement followed by many disabled & chronically ill creatives across North West England.

This area of work takes up huge amounts of my time, even though a lot of it (post lock-down especially) is unfunded. I accept donations through the website and Buy Me A Coffee, so please do get in touch if you or your organisation would like to sponsor or support the movement.

The Pride Parade Goes on Without Me

Outside In presents an exhibition of artworks and poetry exploring the intersect...
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COMMUNITY, YOUTH & MENTAL HEALTH WORK

Community Work

Before the pandemic, I co-founded and co-managed a much-loved arts practice called Nice Time Arts, based in Hulme, Manchester with the lovely Vicky from Pen Fight Distro. We were committed to two key principles; accessibility and affordability. We ran high quality & supportive arts workshops in-house, as well as on location in partnership with Trafford Libraries Trust, Manchester Art Gallery and more. Our regular groups included Zine Club, Spoonie Artists and Queer Craft Club. I wrote and delivered a successful pilot run of a CBT x Art Journaling 6-week programme, which I am currently looking to reinstate as an online offer.

I have three years of experience working in statutory inpatient mental health settings, including acute mental health wards and high security hospitals, running run arts, crafts and well-being workshops.

I’ve worked as a trained telephone and online counsellor for ChildLine, and have provided one-to-one mental health support throughout my career, both to individual young people and adults, as well as through group work. I have various CPD certificates and am currently finishing my MSc Psychology thesis (University of Liverpool, BPS accredited).

Under the moniker ‘Still Ill OK’ I currently provide advocacy, workshops, mentoring and training to vulnerable adults & young people with a general focus on well-being, education, benefits, employability and safe campaigning.

Youth Work

I have 11 years experience as a youth worker, working in particular with vulnerable young people aged 6 – 25yrs. I have a great deal of experience working one-to-one with young people as well as managing staff and large groups on outings and events. I have designed and managed a number of projects which are still running effectively today, in London, Oxford, Berlin and Manchester.

I have also been a low-cost private tutor and mentor for 9 years, and can provide references from many age and language groups. I teach English as a foreign language (TEFL-UK Qualified), as well as a variety of GCSE and AS/A Level subjects; History, English (All), Psychology, Sociology, R.S.

I specialise in working with young people who have what are sometimes labelled as ‘behavioural and emotional difficulties’. I can write and deliver high quality (award-nominated) youth work programmes & singular workshops, as well as deliver & adapt existing material.

Image Description: Ellie (blonde woman in her late twenties) smiles as she is lifting up and cuddling a young girl, who is smiling with a little tooth gap, is mixed race and has long wavy brown hair and a bright pink coat. The lighting has a pink tinge, as we are inside a local cafe and there is a lot of fake greenery in the background.

Examples of existing workshops:
– Social Action Campaigns / Running a Safe Campaign
– A Guide to CBT x Art Therapy Journaling
– Welcome to The Equality Act (2010)
– Working with Younger Children

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The Pride Parade Goes on Without Me


Outside In presents an exhibition of artworks and poetry exploring the intersect of LGBTQIA+ and disabled activist identities in Manchester.

The exhibition will open at the People’s History Museum until Monday 8 April 2024

As well as artwork and poetry by North West Outside In artists, the exhibition is guest curated by Julian Gray and features newly commissioned artwork by Lead Artist, Dara SF Addams.  

Manchester’s Gay Village has a strong and important history as one of the most vital LGBTQIA+ spaces in the UK, yet even in its modern form it contains few accessible venues. Disabled LGBTQIA+ people are often isolated and forgotten, and this extends to Pride events as well. 

Protest and activism often require a physical presence; they can sometimes include a risk of arrest which carries with it greater difficulties for those with intersectional identities, including disability, neuro-divergence and mental health. These barriers to access can impact one’s sense of identity as an LGBTQIA+ person, particularly as an LGBTQIA+ activist. 

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LGBTQIA+ x Disabled Activism: Share Your Experiences!

Ellie Ora Page is making a zine to accompany an upcoming exhibition at People’s History Museum in February 2024.

The mini-zine will include prompts for zine-making around the theme of intersecting disabled & LGBTQIA+ identities.

This anonymous form is an opportunity for you to share your experiences as activists of either of both of these communities. Your answers may inform the themes of the prompts or artwork included in the zine. I just would like to hear from as many people as possible to build a picture of how intersecting identities are experienced in the context of activism 🙂

Click here to fill in the Google form: https://forms.gle/rXxrcqf49oXKVLqk9

You can respond to any/all of the questions however you like! You can respond to any/all of the questions however you like! You can even skip to the end if you don’t want to respond to particular prompts and instead would just like to share an opinion or anecdote.

Alternative formats of the prompts can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U8-9MroHuvoOJIwgZ3oCJre4eUsY4_q8?usp=drive_link

If you have any questions or would like to submit in another way, please email ellie@elliepage.co.uk

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Lively Minds: The Mental Health Podcast

Led by people with lived experience, Lively Minds is a UK-based podcast about mental health challenges that go beyond the ebb and flow of the everyday.

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

Ellie Page and Will Sadler present a show that is less about how we deal with our mental health problems, and more about how we understand them in the first place.

In our first season, we will be talking with Clinical Psychologist Karen Lowinger about High Functioning Mental Health problems, therapist and fellow podcaster Stuart Ralph about one of the most misunderstood of all mental health conditions: OCD, Professor William Tov about the definition of happiness, Jake Dunn about men’s mental health groups and the responsibility of communities to look after one another’s mental wellbeing, Dolly Sen about whether ‘mental illness’ even exists and Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen about how mental health intersects with spirituality and gender.

The trailer launches today, with Episodes 1 & 2 arriving on Wednesday 3 May.

For more information and for signposting to mental health services, please visit our website, and help us to make Season 2 (which we are already very excited about) over at Buy Me A Coffee.

What do you think of the first couple of episodes? Who would you like to see on Season 2? Let us know by tweeting @LivelyMindsPod

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Stories For Us – Julian Gray Solo Exhibition & Weekly Drawing Club @ The Lowry

I’m very excited that a solo exhibition of my wonderful spoonie friend’s is now open at The Lowry!

‘Stories For Us’ by the very talented Julian Gray launched this week, along with a number of amazing (& wheelchair accessible, ofc) workshops, events and weekly drawing clubs.

Image Description: A hand-drawn sketch of two men. One is facing forward, looking ahead with a concerned expression. Behind him are some vague figures, and the second man, who is drawn from the side, with his arms folded, looking down.

Stories For Us Weekly Drawing Club

Still ill OK is very excited to be facilitating a weekly Drawing Club at The Lowry for the duration of the exhibition. These free drawing socials will be held every Wednesday 6-7pm in the (wheelchair accessible) Gallery A space at The Lowry. Some materials will be provided, but you are both welcome and encouraged to bring anything you’re currently working on, or your own sketchbook and tools.

Please note that you will need to book your free space online by clicking here in order to attend the Drawing Club

Free weekly drawing socials for artists who feel their stories are rarely represented in mainstream media, including but not limited to creatives who are trans, queer, disabled, neurodiverse, and/or people of colour. Chat and draw in a relaxed space.

Drawing materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Artists working in any form of media, whether digital or traditional, are welcome. Sessions are facilitated by Ellie Page (i.e. Yours Truly) who is a queer, disabled, arts practitioner.

Image Description: A black and white panel from Julian’s comic, The Invalid’s Valet. The perspective is from a front porch, showing the back of the main character, a male, sat on a wicker chair with a coat and scarf facing forward. He is looking at a tall man holding a garden rake, having a conversation with a woman wearing an apron. The setting is autumnal; a tree with leaves dropping, and a large expanse of grass with trees along the skyline.

Events

There are some very exciting events alongside the exhibition, so we really hope to see you there!

Wednesday 23rd March – 27th April – WEEKLY ‘STORIES FOR US’ DRAWING CLUB

Thursday 24th March – COMIC CREATORS IN-CONVERSATION: OLIVIA HICKS & JULIAN GRAY

Saturday 9th April – CREATING COMICS FOR BEGINNERS: WORKSHOP BY JULIAN GRAY

Thursday 28th April – CREATIVE MATCHMAKING: WRITERS AND ARTISTS ASSEMBLE!

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Exhibition: Work in Progress is now live!

I’ve been so grateful to work alongside two WONDERFUL womxn over the last year, as we embarked on a long-distanced creative adventure together thanks to some DYCP funding awarded by Arts Council England. We are all so excited to finally announce that our first online exhibition is now LIVE!

You can check it out for free online by clicking here, and please consider donating us the cost of a brew over at our Buy Me A Coffee page.

We have had to reschedule our planned Instagram Live launch event as I have been unwell suddenly with – yes – COVID.

We have been working together since March, and this exhibition presents works-in-progress, as well as the methods we used to work together, what we did, how we did it and who we became.

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*NEW* NeuroPictomancy Series Now on Sale!

A new range of prints from my NeuroPictomancy series are now on sale at our shop, on Etsy and over at Stationary N’ Stationery, along with a number of other gorgeous gifts & art from local artists!

This series is part of an ongoing visual essay exploring a practice I have been developing called ‘NeuroPictomancy’. You can read more about this “communication in progress” over at the Resting UpCollective Substack post, as well as on the Still ill site. This will eventually be created into a short book exploring the process & its results.

Not only this, but there are two new designs from this series available as a range of clothing and homeware options over at Society 6 & Red Bubble including something I am VERY proud of….

… THE JIGSAW OF PAIN!

Gift your loved one who doesn’t generally experience extreme pain a JIGSAW that represents yours! It will be phenomenally difficult to complete, and while it is an image filled with pain, I believe it is also quite beautiful and talkative.

Click here to visit the jigsaw section of my Red Bubble shop, and over at Society 6 you will find the milder – but possibly even more difficult – jigsaw titled “Mint Chocolate Deluxe”.

About the Jigsaws of Doom:

Exercise your mind with our precision cut puzzles featuring a thick, class-leading paperboard, with a satin finish for added durability. Available in 200, 500 and 1,000 piece sets to match whatever your skill level may be.

  • Available in 200, 500 and 1,000 piece sets
  • Precision cut puzzle shapes
  • Printed on a thick, class-leading paperboard with a satin finish for added durability
  • Single-sided print
  • Every order is made just for you
  • 200 Pieces: Suggested for ages 8 & Up
  • 500 & 1,000 Pieces: Sugested for ages 9 & Up Total
  • Puzzle Dimensions: 200 Pieces – 13.75″ x 17.125″ (34.925 cm x 43.498 cm) // 500 Pieces – 14.125″ x 17.625″ (35.878 cm x 44.768 cm) // 1,000 Pieces – 19.75″ x 24.75″ (50.165 cm x 62.865 cm)
  • Average Individual Piece Dimensions: 200 Pieces – 1.25″ x 2″ (3.175 cm x 5.08 cm) // 500 Pieces – .875″ x 1″ (2.223 cm x 2.54 cm) // 1,000 Pieces – 1″ x 1″ (2.54 cm x 2.54 cm)

Exploring Collections: Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection

(Image: Primrose Pathway by James Price. Credit: The Whitworth Art Gallery) It is with great excitement that I can announce that applications are open from now until 9am Monday 9th January to take part in Outside In’s Step Up: Exploring Collections; a wonderful 10-week course I have been developing over …

Introduction To Zine-Making @ the Nothing About Us Without Us Exhibition Launch

Inspired by new exhibition Nothing About Us Without Us (on show until 16 October 2023), join this intimate workshop to learn about zines; what they are, how to make them, and how to (mass) produce your own mini zine. We will be looking at the role zines have played historically as well as …

Hearing Voices Manchester: Relaunch Event with Film Screening & Panel Discussion

I will be speaking about my most recent research into the experiences of Hearing Voices Group Facilitators over the pandemic on a panel alongside some legendary speakers, and would love for you to come and join. The Hearing Voices Approach was brought to the UK by voice hearers and allies …

‘Our Homes’ by Saoirse Felix Addams & Ellie Ora Page – Exhibition & Zine Launch Event

Announcing: Our Homes exhibition and zine launch event! Monday 11 April between 5-9pm, at Contact and online 💫💕 I was commissioned alongside the wonderful Saoirse Felix Addams to create some new art on the theme of ‘home’ by Drawn Poorly, Short Supply and Contact MCR. There will be a hybrid …

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Send a brief of what you need, whether it’s a one off or long term support, a rough guideline of your budget, and I will get back to you with a quote.


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