Liberty Bligh is a disabled, queer multidisciplinary artist and lived experience advisor, and is currently completing a BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture) at Gray’s School of Art.
Liberty works across a broad range of materials including ceramics, plaster, steel, bronze, wood, ink drawings, collage, printing, and found objects. Her practice centres crip perspectives, identity, and respiration within the Anthropocene, examining how deforestation, air‑pollution, and climate change impact human breath.
Liberty’s critical interests span environmental justice, disability studies, crip theory, and the ethics of co‑production, and she regularly collaborates with fellow artists, community researchers, and peers with lived experience. She draws on her own lived experience of chronic respiratory failure, acquired brain injury and language loss from prolonged mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy and daily non-invasive ventilation to reveal the symbiotic relationships between machines and bodies.
Liberty also contributes her lived‑experience insight to research and policy through several advisory roles. She is member of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel for Asthma and Lung UK, a participant on the Diverse Experience Advisory Panel for the UK Mental Health Foundation, and has been a lived experience advisor for the Poverty Alliance, Trussell Trust and Nourish Scotland, and with the James Lind Respiratory Research Partnership.
Bligh is part of Cripping Breath, a year-long interdisciplinary project developed in partnership with the University of Sheffield and supported by the Wellcome Trust. She will take part in a series of residencies at The Art House across 2026 and 2027, leading to the development of new work and a public presentation in late 2027.