Disability Arts Online

Painting

• Cathy Wooley
  Melissa Mostyn talks to Cathy Wooley about her work and inspiration as artist and friend.
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  Sue Williams: Urban Regeneration
  Profile of artist Sue Williams
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  Nancy Willis: Early Days
  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.
• Colin Hambrook
  Making paintings and prints about my experience of visions, hallucinations and dreams, brought me into contact with an emerging Disability Arts.
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  Andrew Roberts
  Painter Andrew Roberts talks to Colin Hambrook about his career.
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  Driving Inspiration

  Caroline Cardus reports on Buckinghamshire's Cultural Olympiad project.

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  Profile: 'Outside In' 2009

  'Outside In' is on show at Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, 4 August – 8 November 2009. The exhibition provides a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or other social circumstances. Marc Steene, Head of Learning, explains some of the reasoning behind the competition, due to become a national event by 2011.

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  Profile: Kit Wells - The Figure in the Urban Landscape

  Once a painter, always a painter! Kit Wells talk about life and painting in relation to his recent acrylics of urban wasteland and desolate places.

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  News: First Quarter of Shape Diamonds Programme Announced

  Disabled Londoners are set to benefit from Shape Diamonds in 2012, a year which includes the Cultural Olympiad and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

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  Inner Worlds Outside

  Colin Hambrook went to the Whitechapel Gallery in London to see the latest exposure of Outsider Art.

• Tommy McHugh: The Universe Explodes

  Danny Start reviews a Liverpool artist whose creativity came to the fore after having a stroke

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  Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors. Late Works 1950-1954

  Colin Hambrook reviews a touring exhibition by one of the most important French painters of the 20th century

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  On The Next Level: Space Between

  Tony Heaton reviews this wide-ranging, exploratory exhibition, which has been touring the south-west.

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  Review: Outside In Launch

  Outside In is now open for submissions. Liz Porter went along to the launch event at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to soak up the excitement.

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  Review: Nick Blinko's 'Visions of Pope Adrian 37th'

  Colin Hambrook got a magnifying glass out to see Nick Blinko's fantastical 'Visions of Pope Adrian 37th' on show at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester until 14 August 2011.

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  Review: Alf Wiltshire

  John O'Donoghue reviews the work of Outsider Artist Alf Wiltshire and discovers a gentle humour in the poems, text art and paintings of a prolific artist.

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  Review: Edward Burra Retrospective at Pallant House Gallery

  The first major exhibition for 25 years of the highly individual work of the popular British artist Edward Burra (1905–1976) is on show at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester until 19th February 2012. Colin Hambrook reviews the life and works of this exceptional watercolourist who documented significant moments in the second half of the 20th century.

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  Infinitas Gracias: Mexican Miracle Paintings

  Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings is on show at the Wellcome Collection, London until 26 February 2012. DAO New Voices writer Obi Chiejina explores the mystery behind this exhibition of votive paintings.

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  Review: A Bigger Picture: David Hockney at the Royal Academy

  A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy showcases David Hockney's landscape work. Included are oil paintings, photo-collages, charcoal drawings, watercolours, prints and film. With over 150 works displayed, spanning Hockney’s career of over fifty years, it is as much a celebration as an exhibition and, as such, it exudes generosity and abundance. Debbie Caulfield was profoundly affected.

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  Review: Lucian Freud Portraits

  The most ambitious exhibition of the work of Lucian Freud for ten years is now showing at the National Portrait Gallery until 27 May 2012. It is the first to focus on his portraits. Nicole Fordham Hodges went along, and took a friend.

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  Review: Picasso and Modern British Art

  Deborah Caulfield recently spent two glorious hours at Tate Britain’s Picasso & British Modern Art exhibition. She urges you to go, even if your passion for Modern Art is barely lukewarm.

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  Review: Shape Open

  The award ceremony for the Shape Open exhibition at Portobello Gallery, last night, was a crowded affair. Colin Hambrook went along to soak up Shape’s outing into a mainstream gallery space in West London.

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  Andrew Roberts

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

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  Tommy McHugh

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

• Nancy Willis: Early Days Gallery

  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.

• Sue Williams: Urban Regeneration

  Paintings by Sue Williams

• Colin Hambrook

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

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  Gallery: Russell Jones presents Unleashed

  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.

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  Gallery: urban wastelands, desolate places by Kit Wells

  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.

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  Gallery: Harry Matthews' visionary artworks

  Visual artist and writer Harry Matthews shares some of his images, with a description of the vision behind his paintings and drawings.

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  Gallery: Maureen Oliver

  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.

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  Holton Lee Disability Arts Open Exhibition
  Colin Hambrook reflects on the first open exhibition to embrace Disability Arts and asks how we push the debate for quality to a further level
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  Shape Open

  Trish Wheatley interviews Ben Fredericks, Shape’s Programme Officer about the up-and-coming Shape Open - a visual arts competition, that asks disabled and non-disabled artists to respond to 'disability'

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  Seeing in close up: exploring the work of photorealist painter Chuck Close

  Chuck Close is a leading figure in the photorealism movement, creating huge portraits of himself, his friends and his family. He became a wheelchair user in the late 1980’s, radically developing his artistic techniques alongside, but as Jo Verrent explores, his connection to disability started much earlier than that…

Mixed Media

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  Pauline Alexander: the Many Faces of Discrimination

  Pauline Alexander tells the story of turning direct experience of employment discrimination into Art

• Artsadmin Digital Bursaries 2004

  Joe McConnell, editor of DAIL Magazine, provides a look at the work of some of the disabled artists who received bursaries in 2004 from Artsadmin for work in digital media.

• Paddy Masefield Award
  Open only to people with learning difficulties, resident in the South West Region and aged 18 or over, it is the only award of its kind in Europe
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  Tales from the Boarders
  Anne Teahan documents the artistic process of three artists making Art from the memories of an institution.
• Art Through Touch
  Visually impaired artist Lynn Cox explains why this London-based project is so ground-breaking
  
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  James Aldridge: Inside-Out

  James Aldridge explores his relationship to disability and impairment

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  Nancy Willis: Early Days
  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.
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  Tanya Raabe: Artist on the Edge
  Ann Young talks about life, love and Who's Who Tanya Raabe's latest collection of paintings
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  Profile: 'Outside In' 2009

  'Outside In' is on show at Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, 4 August – 8 November 2009. The exhibition provides a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or other social circumstances. Marc Steene, Head of Learning, explains some of the reasoning behind the competition, due to become a national event by 2011.

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  On The Next Level: Space Between

  Tony Heaton reviews this wide-ranging, exploratory exhibition, which has been touring the south-west.

• In Touch with Art: Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment

  Liz Porter attends an International Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment held November 2007 at the V&A, London

• Nancy Willis: Early Days Gallery

  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.

• James Aldridge: Inside-Out

  James Aldridge explores his relationship to disability and impairment

• Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum

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

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  Gallery: Harry Matthews' visionary artworks

  Visual artist and writer Harry Matthews shares some of his images, with a description of the vision behind his paintings and drawings.

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  Disability Arts Moments

  DAO asks what are your favourite pieces of work (in any art form) by disabled artists? What do you feel should be preserved for future generations?

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  Holton Lee Disability Arts Open Exhibition
  Colin Hambrook reflects on the first open exhibition to embrace Disability Arts and asks how we push the debate for quality to a further level
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  Disability Art and Science: Resonant Frequency

  Resonant Frequency was a partnership between ITHACA, Science Oxford (the Oxford Trust) and Disability Arts Online (DAO) which sought to explore the issues around disability arts and science.

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  Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum
  A narrative from Rachel Gadsden based on her collection of paintings, Beyond the Asylum.

Photography

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  Open Studio with Noëmi Lakmaier
  Noëmi Lakmaier's residency at Camden Arts Centre as recipient of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary and a conversation with Tony Heaton
• Juan delGado
  Joe McConnell talks to Juan delGado about his cutting edge work using photography and video installation
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  Benedict Phillips: Invisible Apartheid of Words
  Benedict Philips talks to Colin Hambrook about his performance art and photography exploring the experience of dyslexia.
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  Profile: Blind with Camera at DadaFest 2010

  An exhibition by Blind with Camera is showing at the DaDa-Fest International, Liverpool until 3 December 2010. DAO talked to Partho Bhowmick who set up the project in Mumbai, India in 2006 after being inspired by Evgen Bavcar, an accomplished blind photographer based in Paris.

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  Interview: Matthew Miller talks about Fabrica's House of Vernacular exhibition

  Wendy McGowan-Griffin interviews Matthew Miller, Co-Director of Fabrica Gallery about the curatorial decisions made during the installation of Martin Parr’s 'House of Vernacular,' which ran from 2 October to 28 November 2010 as part of the Brighton Photography Biennial.

• Explore: Disabled and Deaf People engaging with Galleries

  Artist Alan Mclean talks about working with Ethnic Advocacy and Apna Women's Group from Walsall.

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  Review: DaDaFest 2009 - Kevin Connolly's Rolling Exhibition at Open Eye Gallery

  Susan Bennett braves the weather to search for a major show - The Rolling Exhibition - by Kevin Connolly at Open Eye Gallery, part of DaDaFest 2009 in Liverpool

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  Review: The House of Vernacular

  Wendy McGowan discovers some new meanings behind our interpretation of everyday photographs in 'The House of Vernacular' - on show at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton until 28 November 2010.

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  Review: Outside In Launch

  Outside In is now open for submissions. Liz Porter went along to the launch event at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to soak up the excitement.

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  Benedict Phillips: Invisible Apartheid of Words

  Benedict Phillips' UK and US residencies

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  Memories of the Disability Action Network

  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.

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  Ju Gosling: Towards a Scientific Model of Disability
  Ju Gosling talks about her residency at the National Institute of Medical Research
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  Memories of the Disability Action Network
  Poet Peter Street recalls the famous Disability Action Network protests of the mid-90s with a stunning series of photographs.
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  Poetry: David Trippas presents poems on life in the asylum

  DAO publishes two poems with accompanying photographs from David Trippas, founder member of Survivors Speak Out.

Printmaking

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  Nancy Willis: Early Days
  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.
• Colin Hambrook
  Making paintings and prints about my experience of visions, hallucinations and dreams, brought me into contact with an emerging Disability Arts.
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  Lara Varga
  Printmaker, Illustrator and Book Artist Lara Varga talks about her Art work and practice
• Simon Cooper: My Virtual Reality World
  Simon Cooper - a Platform 6 artist - explores the dilemma between hand-made and technology-made printmaking and looks at ways of combining the two processes.
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  Review: Outside In Launch

  Outside In is now open for submissions. Liz Porter went along to the launch event at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to soak up the excitement.

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  Lara Varga

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

• Nancy Willis: Early Days Gallery

  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.

• Colin Hambrook

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

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  Alan Scott: in memoriam
  Alan Scott was a photographer, printmaker, writer and raconteur with a love of philosophy and a wealth of understanding and knowledge. Sadly, Alan died on Thursday 16 October, aged 57 years. Here DAO reproduces a selection of words and images to create

Sculpture

Live art

New Media

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  Commission: Transformation by Nancy Willis with music by Chris Morris

  Animated art by Nancy Willis, based on 'The Explorer' by Allan Sutherland, with music by Chris Morris.

• Artsadmin Digital Bursaries 2004

  Joe McConnell, editor of DAIL Magazine, provides a look at the work of some of the disabled artists who received bursaries in 2004 from Artsadmin for work in digital media.

• Mark Ware: Mind Games

  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. Colin Hambrook talked to him about his creative journey.

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  Phil Lancaster
  Colin Hambrook talked to Phil Lancaster about his compelling, computer generated images
• Simon Cooper: My Virtual Reality World
  Simon Cooper - a Platform 6 artist - explores the dilemma between hand-made and technology-made printmaking and looks at ways of combining the two processes.
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  Review: DaDaFest09 - DaDaNoise at the Bluecoat, Liverpool

  Billed as a 'fusion of local musicians, performance art and songs...a night where anything goes,' DaDaNoise took over The Bluecoat, Liverpool on 28 November 2009.

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  Phil Lancaster

  Phil Lancaster's compelling, computer generated images

• Mark Ware

  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.

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  Pauline Alexander: The Many Faces of Discrimination

  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.

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  Discussion: Anne Teahan - 'Sharing Cultures'

  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 reflects on the show and what disability has got to do with art.

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  Research: Anne Teahan - Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility

  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 her extensive research on a selection of artists whose work was chosen to for exhibition.

Public Art

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  Profile: StopGAP Dance Company present a new double bill - Trespass

  Autumn 2010 see StopGAP Dance Company embarking on a tour of their latest double bill - 'Within' choreographed by Thomas Noone and 'Splinter' choreographed by Rob Tannion. Lucy Bennett provides a dancers' insight into this exciting development in StopGAPs work

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  Profile: Accentuate

  Over the coming months DAO intends to report on a range of events taking place under the Accentuate banner. Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK which is creating a cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, SEEDA and the regional cultural agencies. Screen South is the home of Accentuate.

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  Profile: Deafinitely Creative

  Deafinitely Creative, the nation's only playwriting programme exclusively for deaf writers, has chosen its four finalists for 2010-11.

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  Dysarticulate: a DIY intervention from Creative Campus

  Led by artist Jon Adams, this initiative intends to start a dialogue and a series of conversations reflecting the real issues around disability, our fragility and the nature of Public Art.

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  News: Disabled artist makes streets her canvas in the build up to London 2012

  A street in High Wycombe will be creatively transformed in March as part of a cultural programme celebrating London 2012. Conceptual disabled artist, Zoe Partington, has worked on developing a creative response to how disabled people navigate through urban spaces and the impact this has on them emotionally and physically.

Film and Animation

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  Pauline Alexander: the Many Faces of Discrimination

  Pauline Alexander tells the story of turning direct experience of employment discrimination into Art

• LDAF Disability Film Festival
  Now in its seventh year, London Disability Arts Forum's (LDAF) annual Disability Film Festival continues to provide a powerful platform for the work of disabled filmmakers.
• Liz Crow: Frida Kahlo’s Corset
  An award-winning short film about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will accompany a major exhibition of the artist's work to be held at Tate Modern in London on show until October 2005
• Interview with Lou Birks
  Joe McConnell finds out more about Lou Birks' work as an independent filmmaker.
• Mark Ware: Mind Games

  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. Colin Hambrook talked to him about his creative journey.

• Juan delGado
  Joe McConnell talks to Juan delGado about his cutting edge work using photography and video installation
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  Oska Bright 4th International Festival of short films

  Oska Bright 2009 runs from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 November 2009 with different screenings each day. As well as daily screenings Oska Bright includes Master Classes, mentoring sessions, a fabulous awards ceremony and a closing party with live music. The festival kick off with an inspiring workshops for people with learning disabilities wanting to learn how to make films.

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  DaDa on the BBC Big Screens

  To celebrate the International Day of Disabled People on 3rd December 2011, the 23 BBC Big Screens across the UK will be showing a series of DaDa short films from 12.30-1pm.

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  Oska Bright Film Festival 2004

  A festival of short films by people with learning disabilities.

• X’08 London's 8th International Disability Film Festival

  Allan Sutherland reviews X'08 London's 8th International Disability Film Festival

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  The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!

  DAO reveiws Aaron Williamson and Katherine Araniello's latest exhibition

• Sign Dance Collective showreel

  Sign Dance Collective are fast developing a Europe-wide reputation for their imaginative new style of sign dance theatre. Colin reviews their show reel.

• Yinka Shonibare: Turner Prize (2004)

  Deborah Williams reviews the work of Turner Prize (2004) nominee Yinka Shonibare.

• Ryan Gander: Is this guilt in you too? (Cinema Verso)

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  Review: Oska Bright 4th International Film Festival 2009

  Colin Hambrook catches the best of Oska Bright 2005 and 2007, plus some of the best of submissions from London and the South East on the first day of the film festival at the Old Market Arts Centre, Hove

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  Review: Shape Open

  The award ceremony for the Shape Open exhibition at Portobello Gallery, last night, was a crowded affair. Colin Hambrook went along to soak up Shape’s outing into a mainstream gallery space in West London.

• Mark Ware

  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.

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  North West Disability Arts Forum: TransART
  DAO contacted North West Disability Arts Forum NWDAF to find out about an innovative project aiming to open up debate about identity, access and inclusion within contemporary art
• West Midlands Disability Arts Forum: Common Sense
  Common Sense is a pioneering series of events, organised by West Midlands Disability Arts Forum (WMDAF)

Installation

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  Adam Reynolds: an Obituary
  An obituary to Adam Reynolds by Tony Heaton
• Paul Cade: Sanity for Vanity
  Colin Hambrook recently saw Paul Cade's breathtaking work and decided to visit the artist in person.
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  Tales from the Boarders
  Anne Teahan documents the artistic process of three artists making Art from the memories of an institution.
• Mark Ware: Mind Games

  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. Colin Hambrook talked to him about his creative journey.

• Damien Robinson: Songbird
  Deaf artist Damien Robinson talks to Ele Carpenter about an intriguing audio installation, which explores the relationship between sound and vibration.
  
• Juan delGado
  Joe McConnell talks to Juan delGado about his cutting edge work using photography and video installation
• Alison Jones: The Smell of Honey
  Alison Jones, acclaimed visual artist, talks to Joe McConnell about her exploration of multisensory experience.
• Colin Redwood: Sound Sculpture
  Can sound sculpture boost Deaf Awareness? According to Colin Redwood, it can.
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  Jon Adams: Word Wall
  Artist challenges commuters at London Bridge station Jon Adams has recently been appointed as Southern's Artist in Residence and over the next year Adams will be creating his art on the Southern network as part of the Alternative Platform project.
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  Video: Juan delGado presents The Flickering Darkness

  Paula Silva gives an overview of Flickering Darkness - a film installation premiered at the Chamber of Commerce in Bogota, by Juan delGado of Cremer Projects.

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  Interview: Noemi Lakmaier discusses her work for Shape's Animate programme

  Animate explores the rich history of Disability Arts through talks and workshops. Colin Hambrook asked visual artist Noemi Lakmaier about her plans for the second of these talks at Shape on 8 February 2010

• Christine Finn: Leave Home Stay

  Colin Hambrook talks about the impact of Christine Finn's installation 'Leave-Home-Stay'

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  Yinka Shonibare: Adam Reynolds bursary

  Colin Hambrook and Joe McConnell respond to a talk by Yinka Shonibare at the Shape's launch of the Adam Reynolds bursary

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  The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!

  DAO reveiws Aaron Williamson and Katherine Araniello's latest exhibition

• Yinka Shonibare: Turner Prize (2004)

  Deborah Williams reviews the work of Turner Prize (2004) nominee Yinka Shonibare.

• Ryan Gander: Is this guilt in you too? (Cinema Verso)

• Paul Cade: Light Being

  Colin Hambrook looks at Paul Cade's Light Beingwithin the context of disability arts.

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  Review: Resistance; Which Way the Future

  Debbe Caulfield and three disabled friends saw Liz Crow’s 'Resistance; Which Way the Future' at The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre in Taunton on 12th and 29 March 2011. It made them think…

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  Review: The View From Here

  Trish Wheatley reviews an exhibition featuring works by Martin Bruch, Juan delGado, Aidan Moesby and an intervention by DAO blogger Gini, currently on show at Salisbury Arts Centre, as part of the Re-Imagining Exhibitions programme.

• Mark Ware

  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.

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  Pauline Alexander: The Many Faces of Discrimination

  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.

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  Gallery: Tales From The Boarders

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

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  Gallery: Jon Adams presents The Goose on the Hill

  Jon Adams presents a gallery of images of artworks on exhibition at Pallant House Gallery from 13 October – 22 November 2009

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  Gallery: Aidan Moesby

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

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  Disability Arts Moments

  DAO asks what are your favourite pieces of work (in any art form) by disabled artists? What do you feel should be preserved for future generations?