Dolly Sen's Blog
Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She has 8 published books since 2002; has taken on performance roles at The Young Vic, the Royal Festival Hall, and around Europe; undertaken a poetry tour; won a poetry award from Poet Laureate Andrew Motion; directed two plays and several TV films; and performed spoken word at City Hall and Oxford University.
24 January 2012
Dolly Sen's Subversive Powerpoint
Powerpoint is probably one of the most unsubversive mediums around, it is used 40,000 times a day to tell people what to do, I thought I would reverse the trend a tiny bit by creating a...Comments: 2
9 November 2011
Dolly Sen creates another piece of art that doesn't exist
Existentialism in the form of questioning the existence of something is fun to do if you have a spare five minutes.
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30 August 2011
cheeky 5 minute art
art can be created in five minutes, even ones that don't exist.
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19 July 2011
Concrete Skin - a poem
Put a soul As light as a feather In concrete skin And broken shoes And say 'live human live' Go into hell and make it look Pretty Find meaning In your hopeless dreaming Death hurts And...Comments: 0
13 July 2011
Dolly Sen asks 'Is it all a game?'
Today, I swore in a job interview and cried at a one legged pigeon because I have a bit of PMT at the moment. I also produced this work of art. Or am I just playing a game? My bemused...Comments: 1
7 July 2011
The Fundamental Good of The Human Being?!
I have started doing collages, actually there was a compulsion to do a collage of a human being. Maybe I was just feeling all that was wrong with the world, but in my psychosis, human beings were...Comments: 6
13 June 2011
Senseless flame - a poem
The fire of your passion. Of your rage Of your life Would make the stars laugh If they could even see you You are a senseless flame Hiding behind a flesh That cries in secret and judges other...Comments: 0
7 June 2011
The Mad Ten Commandments
Well, have been away a while, but this is the year my soul felt like it was dying. By virtue of having a job and the expectation of me to be 'normal', when normality feels like a barbed-wire enema,...Comments: 3
5 October 2010
Dolly Sen writes a letter to a CCTV Camera
Dear Poor Lonely CCTV Camera, Do you ever get the feeling you are missing the point? That the cameras are pointing the wrong way? That the people who enforced your use are the ones who...Comments: 1
24 September 2010
Dolly Sen's artistic response to the condem's treatment of disabled people
This artwork is an artistic response to the condem's treatment of disabled people. The two incendiary expressions of the piece that both the distortion of facts and blood of the inevitable suicides...Comments: 2
18 August 2010
Dolly Sen will present a paper at Currents In the Mainstream Conference
On September 22nd I will be presenting a paper at the 'In the Mainstream' conference at De Montfort University, Leicester, organised by The MeCCSA Disability Studies...Comments: 0
16 August 2010
Dolly Sen pays tribute to Amita Patel
I am well aware of the statistic that states one in ten people with serious mental health difficulties will commit suicide. But statistics are for the safe and sound, statistics turn human hearts...Comments: 1
14 August 2010
Dolly Sen on Soap and Sync
Hey guys, sorry for the delay in the blogging. It is ironic that at the Sync SouthEast event on the 21 July I said you should keep updating your blog regularly... it should be as regular as...Comments: 0
8 July 2010
Dolly Sen is obsessed with angels
I am obsessed with angels at the mo. I am seeing them everywhere, am writing about them, and painting them, and feeling the breeze from their flapping wings on my face, or could it be that I don't...Comments: 1
3 July 2010
Dolly Sen gives a definition of mad culture
What is Mad Culture? It is a celebration of the creativity of mad people, and pride in our unique way of looking at life, our internal world externalised and shared with others without shame, as a...Comments: 2
2 July 2010
Dolly Sen is addicted to making new websites
I have 2 new websites set up, I am dogsitting at the moment, so I can't really cause havoc in my public as I usually do, so I am stuck inside, so what to do with my time? Well, I am painting,...Comments: 0
1 July 2010
Dolly Sen on poetry and the darkness of the soul
I am mostly a happy go lucky person, with a certain cheekiness. I hope when people meet me, they detect the light in me. But I haven't had an easy life, as I have dealt with extreme abuse as a...Comments: 0
22 June 2010
Dolly on an Open University CD about madness and creativity
Hello people, a while back I contributed my story and a bit of my music to an Open University CD. You can actually get this CD for free via my page on the BBC OU website at open2.net. Enjoy...Comments: 0
17 June 2010
Dolly Sen sets up Mental Health Training Company
I graduated from Uni about a month ago, and said to myself, I am going to take a year off. But only two weeks into that resolve, I became bored and am productive again. I am looking for work -...Comments: 1
12 June 2010
Dolly Sen posts Recovery Film by Michelle McNary
When I used to believe in Recovery as concept and practice, I took part in a film about the subject matter, made by my good friend Michelle McNary. I think she made a really touching and powerful...Comments: 2
1 May 2010
Dolly Sen does broken-hearted poetry
I had my heart broken earlier this week, am slowly climbing out of the hole. Part of the ladder out of the dark is writing my way out. So here is some of it... Songs to my shadow The sun is too...Comments: 0
28 April 2010
Dolly Sen does the Eastbourne Herald
I've done an interview with the Eastbourne Herald about living with mental illness as part of Depression Awareness Week, which started on 17...Comments: 0
22 April 2010
Dolly Sen writes a poem while waiting for the gasman under a Lithium Sun -
Am waiting for the gasman to make an appearance at my mum's so they can fix her boiler, I have done my work for the day, so instead of twiddling my thumbs, I did a bit of writing about bipolar. I was...Comments: 1