Trotman is an international, award-winning Equalities Designer and Researcher whose practice explores extending the frontiers of knowledge across mental difference, non-typical bodyminds, ways of being & marginalised experiences.
With an MA in Information Experience Design from The Royal College of Art (RCA), a background in Inclusive Design, Data Systems analysis from Oxford, coupled with access & inclusion expertise, Trotman has exhibited widely & created workshops at cultural establishments including The V&A and National Gallery; previously worked as a Research Associate at The RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre & The Wellcome Trust (Wellcome Collection Hub) on a two-year Research project, Design and The Mind.
A fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a member of the Chartered Society of Designers & a fellow of the Institute of Equality, Diversity Practitioners. Trotman is a Design Expert Specialist for the Design Council, a NASA Aeronautics (IDEA) Practitioner, and a Wellcome consultant & Co-Developer for Wellcome’s Social Justice Curriculum. She is an artist in residence at Somerset House's studio 48. Trotman has been honoured at 10 and 11 Downing Street; she has been selected as a British Council 10×10 Emerging Artist, named on Shaw Trust’s Power List Top 100 Influential Disabled People 2019 & 2020 and recently nominated for a Genius Within's Stereotype Buster award 2021& 2022.
