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17 February 2012

Within this section you will find galleries of visual art by disabled and deaf artists. We'd love to know what you think of the work on display. There are comment forms at the end of each article in which you can give feedback to the artists.

Gallery: Sarah Hirst

Sarah Hirst

14 March 2013

Sarah Hirst is currently in her 3rd and final year on a fine art degree. The theme of her work is about exploring the masks we wear in everyday life. Her gallery of Dream Watercolours represents work that came out of a project making work about experience of hallucinations.

Gallery: Liz Crow: Bedding In, Bedding Out - a live durational performance

Liz Crow: Bedding In, Bedding Out - a live durational performance

26 February 2013

Liz Crow presents her new work 'Bedding In, Bedding Out' which is one of the eight Diverse Perspectives commissions funded by Arts Council's Grants for the Arts. Drawing on audio recordings and time lapse photography of the performance, Reflections from the Bed introduces the work, its backdrop and its politics.

Crippen presents the Criptarts

Crippen presents the Criptarts

10 December 2012

Crippen's latest cartoon strip takes DAO readers on an unpredictable journey with a host of disabled characters, featuring some surprising guest appearances from well known members of the disability arts community. Watch the characters develop as they grapple with many of the issues that confront us all as disabled artists, and support each other as members of the DAO extended family.

Gallery: Grace Eyre Foundation

Gallery: Grace Eyre Foundation

2 November 2012

Grace Eyre offer a wide range of visual art sessions for people with learning disabilities in Brighton & Hove. Sessions aim to build on existing talents and offer opportunities to pursue new avenues of artistic exploration. DAOs gallery contains a selection of work by Grace Eyre artists

Gallery: Ivan Riches: Outside In video portraits

Gallery: Ivan Riches: Outside In video portraits

22 October 2012

As part of DAO’s Diverse Perspectives programme, funded by Arts Council England, film-maker Ivan Riches was selected to produce a series of short, moving image, digital works with two Outside In artists.

Crippen and John O'Donoghue present The O’Crypes

Crippen and John O'Donoghue present The O’Crypes

9 July 2012

As one of DAO's Diverse Perspectives commissions, we've asked John O'Donoghue and Crippen to produce The O’Crypes - a cartoon blog about a family based in the fictional seaside town of Westsea - who are more than a little bemused by the Cultural Olympiad

Gallery: Charles Devus

Charles Devus

7 December 2011

Charles Devus is an artist, writer, performer and musician. This gallery displays examples from his forthcoming graphic novel Justin Sane - the travails of an aesthetic detective and his alien son, Cedric.

Gallery 1: Anne Teahan - Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility

Anne Teahan - Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility

13 October 2011

Sharing Cultures is a project researching disability arts by artist Anne Teahan inspired by Revealing Culture an international festival of disability art and culture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in summer 2010. Here Anne shares a gallery of a selection of works from by the artists she engaged with.

Gallery 2: Anne Teahan - Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility

Anne Teahan - Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility

13 October 2011

Sharing Cultures is a project researching disability arts by artist Anne Teahan inspired by Revealing Culture an international festival of disability art and culture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in summer 2010. Here Anne shares a gallery of a selection of works from by the artists she engaged with.

Gallery: BlindArt

BlindArt

21 July 2010

BlindArt is a charitable organisation whose aim is to encourage participation and interaction of the visually impaired in the sighted domain of the visual arts. DAO presents a gallery of some of the artwork in the BlindArt collection

Gallery: Dolly Sen

Dolly Sen

7 July 2010

Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She posts some of her artwork, challenging the nature of 'madness.'

Gallery: Altered Images

Altered Images

1 June 2010

Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010

Gallery: Maureen Oliver

Maureen Oliver

6 May 2010

Maureen Oliver's paintings echo another dimension of reality. The narratives within her artwork engage the viewer with a need to find out more about the human drama described in her paintings - on show at at Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair, BAC, London - from 14-16 May 2010.

Gallery: Aidan Moesby

Aidan Moesby

4 May 2010

Aidan Moesby is a text artist who utilises a variety of media, technologies and approaches in order to realise the artwork.

Gallery: urban wastelands, desolate places by Kit Wells

Kit Wells

12 April 2010

By exploring our urban wastelands and desolate places in his paintings, Kit Wells points up human frailty and helplessness in a landscape created for man’s ease of living, but resulting in an inner-city hell.

Gallery: David Feingold

David Feingold

9 October 2009

David Feingold is a visual designer turned social worker, turned doctoral student in disability studies at National-Louis University, Chicago. He has found a way to turn pain into pictures and anguish into art - Disability Art, that is - in the form of digital visual assemblages.

Gallery: Russell Jones presents Unleashed

Russell Jones

3 September 2009

Dao is delighted to present a gallery selection of paintings from Unleashed an exhibition of Russell Jones work presented by Creative Future at Brighton Media Centre Gallery from 20 - 31 July 2009.

Gallery: Rachel Gadsden presents Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers

20 July 2009

A gallery of details from the Breaking Barriers painting, commissioned by Parliamentary outreach developed in partnership with Essex County Council, The Women's Library, Rethink, Epping Forest Museum, and Southend Discovery Museum.

Pauline Alexander: The Many Faces of Discrimination

Pauline Alexander: The Many Faces of Discrimination

23 April 2008

In collaboration with disabled sound and media artists Jon Adams and Caglar Kimyoncu, Pauline Alexander produced The Art of Discrimination. Here are some stills from that video installation.

Memories of the Disability Action Network

Memories of the Disability Action Network

6 November 2007

The Disability Action Network carried out many protests against the lack of accessible transport (amongst other things) during the latter half of the 1990’s. Peter Street recalls some of the action and shares some of his dramatic photographs.

Chris Hammond Gallery

Chris Hammond

31 October 2007

Chris Hammond is a gifted graphic artist and designer as evidenced by her work for Full Circle Arts - look at its leaflets and website for examples. Her inspirations are eclectic, ranging from the late Ian Stanton, to Rothko's work at Tate Modern.

Gallery: Tales From The Boarders

Tales from the Boarders Gallery

29 October 2007

A series of works from the installations created for 'Tales from the Boarders' by artists Anne Teahan and Damien Robinson.

Tony Heaton

Gallery: Tony Heaton

8 May 2007

A selection of work by a leading artist within the Disability Arts movement.

Tommy McHugh

Tommy McHugh

8 May 2007

Gallery of work from a Liverpool artist whose creativity came to the fore after having a stroke.

Phil Lancaster

Phil Lancaster

8 May 2007

Phil Lancaster's compelling, computer generated images express artistsic ideas as an intriguing and clever form of expression.

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts

1 February 2007

DAO presents a small gallery of some of painter, Andrew Roberts' work.

Lara Varga

Lara Varga

16 December 2006

Gallery of work from printmaker, Illustrator and Book Artist Lara Varga.

Nancy Willis: Early Days Gallery

1 May 2006

A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Nancy Willis is an exceptional artist who has been exhibiting at mainstream and Disability Arts events since the mid 1970's.

John Exell

1 March 2006

Sculptural and visual arts pieces from John Exell in conjunction with Centrepieces - a Mental health system user-led art group in Crayford, Kent

Art + Power

1 December 2005

Gallery of work from Art + Power, a learning disability group based in Bristol.

Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum

1 October 2005

Beyond the Asylum: A collection of paintings by Rachel Gadsden which formed the basis for the accompanying narrative.

Colin Hambrook

1 April 2005

Making paintings and prints about his experience of visions, hallucinations and dreams, brought Colin Hambrook into contact with emerging Disability Arts.

Mark Ware

1 December 2004

Mark Ware has created a play, a film and an exhibition that's influenced by his life after a stroke at the age of 39.

Crippen Cartoons

Crippen Cartoons

1 December 2004

Disabled cartoonist Dave Lupton has a unique cutting edge 'disability vision', and is constantly working to bring his cartoons to a wider audience.