Visual Artist Tanya Raabe makes work around the theme of body image. Her blog concentrates on 'Revealing Culture: HeadOn' - an artwork and piece of research exploring identity, disability culture, in contemporary portraiture and the nude.

Tanya Raabe blogs her first rehearsal with Raspberry - the new production from Fittings Multimedia Arts

27 March 2010

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As associate artist in residence I've just spent a fascinating four days watching and drawing the rehearsal of 'Raspberry' - a co-production between Fittings Multimedia Arts, Sounds of Progress and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. "'Oi Oi! In a small wee town where tin was shaped and forged, a blacksmith had a daughter not quite the trim. Rita was a bit different." "Now as far as the blacksmith was concerned this was a cosmic joke too far, so he set about changing things. Coz tin was...

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Vote for The Public's Choice sports portrait

1 March 2010

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  'The Public’s  Choice' is a chance for you to nominate either a disabled sports personality, or a disabled athlete or a disabled sports person, to have their portrait painted as part of the Revealing Culture: Head On collection. The criteria for your nominated person is that they identify themselves as a disabled person - you must state: Why you have nominated this person - What has this person done to develop disability sports within disability culture. Email me your nomination to...

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Tanya Raabe blogs more 'live sittings' at Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern

1 March 2010

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I’ve now portrayed another three disabled cultural figures in the last two weeks. Its been such a busy time I’ve not got around to telling you all about it, so here goes! Sir Bert Massie made an interesting sitter and he had a lot of disability triumph stories to tell... how he got the law changed so that wheelchair users can now use black cabs when you need to. It's still easier said than done, as now we have to work on getting the cab drivers to let us in the cabs! And...

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