Features
The DAO of Disability Arts
Detail from Henry 500 (1509 – 2009), painting by Rachel Gadsden
Within the features section of DAO you will find profiles of disabled and deaf artists and arts managers; reviews of work made; showcases of visual arts and literature; discussion pieces and resources supporting and documenting the development of disability arts.
To find your way around the DAO you can either find the most recent items listed within each section; go to the archive for a longer listing, or use the search categories in the right-hand menu to navigate to features of interest to you.
If you have any comments, or if there is anything specific you cannot find, please email editor@disabilityartsonline.org.uk
New features...
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Editor's Blog
Colin Hambrook recently went to an event hosted by Shape called Artists' Debating Identity - read more in his blog...
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Cirque-Nova Blog
Jean-Marie Akkermann gives an account of Cirque Nova's circus skills training programme for disabled people
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Rachel Feldberg
Rachel Feldberg, Artistic Director of the Ilkley Literature Festival, discusses life, love and disability with Jo Verrent, director of ada inc.
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Katherine Araniello: Terminal Services
Vauxhall’s art laboratory, Beaconsfield, recently curated Late at Tate, an artist intervention in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries. The concept behind the evening was the idea of creating a terminal space, with an array of arrival and departure poin -
Arts Versus Sports: from a disability perspective
A Yorkshire project, coordinated by ADA inc, focusing on the creative responses of disabled artists to the complex overlaps between art, sport and disability.
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Mind the Gap Theatre Company present Boo
Adapted from Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', Mind the Gap bring their latest production to Oval House Theatre, London
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Bobby Baker’s Diary Drawings: Mental illness and me, 1997-2008
David Watson reviews an exhibition on show at The Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London until 2 August 2009
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Back to Back Theatre: Small Metal Objects
Kate Cotton reviews a performance by Australia’s Back to Back theatre company
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Mike Fryer's gallery
Landscape painter Mike Fryer introduces a selection of his acrylic works.
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Pallant House: Outside In
Outside In is a programme initiated by Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, dedicated to creating opportunities for marginalised and disabled artists. Colin Hambrook gives a personal take on the issues which underlie the project.
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Tim Jeeves: Disability and Fashion
Tim Jeeves explores why many fashion photographers only see one sort of reality when it comes to the human body