Disability Arts Online

Survivor arts

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  Dolly Sen's Blog

  Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She has published eight books since 2002; has taken on performance roles at The Young Vic, the Royal Festival Hall,

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  Joe Kelly's Blog

  Joe Kelly is former Director of Footsteps Arts, in Ealing, West London. He is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

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  Maria Kuipers
  Colin Hambrook reviews the work of an artist whose work embraces a therapeutic approach.
• Julie McNamara: Pig's Sister
  Colin Hambrook talked to Julie McNamara about Pig's Sister her latest piece of theatre, due to be performed at Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh as part of the Degenerate Festival 2005.
• Interview with Lou Birks
  Joe McConnell finds out more about Lou Birks' work as an independent filmmaker.
• Creative Routes
  Sarah Tonin talks to Joe McConnell about the Creative Routes Company
• 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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  Phil Lancaster
  Colin Hambrook talked to Phil Lancaster about his compelling, computer generated images
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  Profile: Rethink Parliament

  Parliamentary Outreach have launched an innovative new initiative designed with mental health group, Rethink. Colin Hambrook reports on how the project is engaging with communities of disabled people, within the mental health arena, who have traditionally been disengaged from the democratic process.

• Peter Campbell: Brown Linoleum Green Lawns

  Peter Campbell's first poetry collection, published by Hearing Eye, is reviewed by Joe Bidder

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  Liberty Festival 2007

  Colin Hambrook reviews this year's big disability celebration in Trafalgar Square

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  Julie McNamara: Pig Tales

  Julie McNamara tours the UK with her story of sex, religion and psychiatry

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  Review: Wings are Giving Out by Sean Burn

  Wings are Giving Out is Sean Burn’s third full length collection from Skrev Press. Colin Hambrook reviews the latest collection from one of the UKs foremost experimental writers.

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  Review: Billy Childish - Unknowable but Certain at the ICA, London

  The Institute of Contemporary Arts exhibits Billy Childish's first major retrospective of work in London, bringing together a cross-section of works from the artists career as a musician, artist, novelist, film maker and poet. Colin Hambrook reviews the show by this talented, infamous artist.

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  Phil Lancaster

  Phil Lancaster's compelling, computer generated images

• John Exell

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

• 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: David Feingold

  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.

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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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  Gallery: Dolly Sen

  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.'

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  Peter Street: Collection of poetry and short stories

  A collection of poetry and short stories by Peter Street

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  Poetry: Maureen Oliver

  Maureen Oliver has had several collections of her poetry and writing published by Chipmunka. Her poetry reflects her experience of the psychiatric system.

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  Poetry: Sarah Ismail

  DAO presents a selection of poems from Listen To The Silence - a collection about life with a physical disability by Sarah Ismail.