Joseph Rizzo Naudi is a Blind writer and facilitator based in London, United Kingdom.

He is a Techne postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway exploring artwork description, fiction technique and blindness as a creative practice. His supervisors are Professor Hannah Thompson and Dr Karina Lickorish Quinn. His writing has been supported by Arts Council England and Spread The Word’s London Writers Awards.

Joseph’s practice involves working closely with artists, writers, galleries and museums to make spaces and artworks more engaging through the creative use of language. Since 2022, he has carried this out in the form of workshops, Audio Description interventions and text-based artworks with a range of organisations, including the Henry Moore Institute, the Natural History Museum, the Wellcome Collection, Smartify, the National Gallery, APT Gallery, UglyDuck, Gerry’s Pompei and Hypha Studios.

He works closely with the W-ICAD project at the University of Westminster and the Beyond the Visual project at UAL.

For links to his work, please visit: https://linktr.ee/joerizzonaudi

updated February 2025