Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary disabled/crip artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Her work often crosses traditional artform boundaries, and exists in online and offline spaces. She frequently straddles multiple roles across her projects; employing choreography, performance, film, sound design, immersive installation and audience activation to create works that interrogate entrenched systems, structures and ways of thinking; and advocate for social change. Her work embraces play and danger, risk and rest, lo-fi, DIY aesthetics and unconventional processes. It rejects convention, traditionalism and arbitrary formal notions of what art can be. Her practice is deeply informed by her movement language and embodied-experience as a wheelchair-user, her self-taught artistic background, and her training as a legal practitioner.
Riana has enjoyed various artistic commissions and successes across her emerging career, and is privileged to have collaborated and organised with many other creative people. As well as more individualised creative pursuits, her practice also involves broader curatorial/space-making projects, aimed at increasing artistic opportunities and fostering connection between traditionally sidelined artists.
Riana is a qualified Solicitor, Access Consultant, and DJ (Aquenta). She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Eora Nation.
