Colin Hambrook and Trish Wheatley explore ideas about the history of Disability Arts and how it is understood by different factions of our community.
Are we in an era, post Disability Art?
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Genome Editing and Human Reproduction Conference London July 23rd2018
Nuffield Council on Bioethics logo On a hot Monday in July, I grab my notepad and Dictaphone and head off to London to attend a…
Presentations, participation and process: reflections on a day thinking about invisibility, visibility, audio description and disabled people’s exclusion.
On the 4thof July Jacqui Lovell attended the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) at Liverpool Hope University in order to take part in…
Natural Selection: Part Two, Egg collecting
Esther Fox “The desire to possess something rare can sometimes have terrible consequences for the thing collected” This sentence from the literature for the Natural Selection exhibition…
D4D Network Conference
D4D Network Conference, at Bath Spa University, for all Community and University partners to outline early ambitions and aims of the D4D project.
Natural Selection: Part One Nest Building
By Esther Fox. Natural Selection at Towner Gallery, by artist Andy Holden and his father Peter, a well-known bird expert, looks at perhaps two unlikely themes for a contemporary art exhibition – nest building and egg collection…
Just Theorising, and its implications
By Stephanie Harvey I’m sitting on the train back from Sheffield with (I won’t lie) a can of G&T, packet of crisps and a man…
‘Electric Bodies’ Workshop 3
As part of ‘Electric Bodies’ we ran a series of three workshops discussing attitudes to disability arts and the disability arts community among disabled artists from a variety of backgrounds. The second session was held with a group of people who were, on the whole, less established as disabled artists within the disability arts sector than the participants in the first workshop.
Electric Bodies: Workshop 2
As part of ‘Electric Bodies’ we ran a series of three workshops discussing attitudes to disability arts and the disability arts community among disabled artists from a variety of backgrounds. The second session was held with a group of people who were, on the whole, less established as disabled artists within the disability arts sector than the participants in the first workshop…
Where is Disability in all of this?
By Stephanie Harvey The weekend of the 23rd February was one of anticipation, trepidation and exhilaration for this PhD student. It was the date of…