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Uma Breakdown

Gateshead
I’m Uma, a disabled artist, writer, and award winning game designer interested in animals, horror, and play. Everything I make is about some combination of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy.

I’m Uma, a disabled artist, writer, and award winning game designer interested in animals, horror, and play. Everything I make is about some combination of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy. My practice is orientated around images and text, manifesting as animation, drawing, games, and publishing. With Belladonna Paloma I make video games about the divine and occult providence of transfemme existence. I live in Gateshead, UK.

 

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The Axis Fellowship 2024: Recipients Announced!

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The Animal Double

By Uma Breakdown
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Fellowship 2024

The 2024 Axis Fellowship brought together artists Uma Breakdown, Asuf Ishaq, Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Sean Roy Parker for a year of making, reflection and connection. From selection through to mentoring and curated projects, this archive captures their journey and the ideas that shaped it.

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