Gallery: Create: Me, Myself, I: portraits by young people with autism
This collection of portrait photographs was taken by young people with autism in a project led by arts charity Create following the theme of 'Me, Myself, I'. The young people took portraits of each other to explore their identity and the identity of their peers, and in the process developed these fantastically dynamic shots full of movement and life. To create these portraits, the young people worked with Create’s professional photographer Alicia Clarke.
Gallery: Sanchita Islam: Schizophrenics Can Be Good Mothers Too
Gallery: Shape Creative Steps: David Hevey documentaries
As part of London-based disability arts development agency, Shape's Creative Steps programme, seven disabled creative practitioners participated in a series of fascinating film documentaries. Made by award-winning director, screenwriter and photographer, David Hevey, the purpose of this documentary-series is to act as a calling card highlighting the talents of the disabled artists that Shape supports - and who in turn, support Shape.
Gallery: David Beaumont
Gallery: Extant present ZombieyeZ in Zagreb
Extant Theatre's blind Zombie movie was filmed in Zagreb. Below you can follow the video diary of the heroine Helen as she joins blind and partially sighted people from across the world to take part in a Zagreb clinic’s medical trial claiming to restore sight in 24 hours. How far did they go to get their sight back? Experience the shocking outcome of Extant’s interactive online film narrative!
Gallery: Aidan Moesby: Hang on it'll be okay - an artistic response to The West Yorkshire Playhouse
As part of DAO’s Diverse Perspectives programme, funded by Arts Council England, artist Aidan Moesby was commissioned to make work for exhibition at The West Yorkshire Playhouse in response to a series of dialogues and conversations with the theatre staff. ‘Hang on, it’ll be okay’ responds to a period of organisational change within the organisation. His lighthouses, exhibited in June 2013 are a metaphor for the purpose of the arts as a beacon, there to guide and to create safe passage.
Gallery: Dolly Sen: Portugal Prints working with the Royal Academy of Arts
As part of DAO’s Diverse Perspectives programme, funded by Arts Council England, film-maker Dolly Sen was commissioned to produce a short documentary exploring the relationship Portugal Prints has with the Royal Academy of Arts access programme. 'Greenhouse of Hearts' highlights the inspired, dynamic work that this small project is delivering.
Gallery: Sarah Hirst
Gallery: Liz Crow: Bedding In, Bedding Out - a live durational performance
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'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: Ivan Riches: Outside In video portraits
Crippen and John O'Donoghue present The O’Crypes
Gallery: Vince Laws - HM The Queen Never... plaques
Gallery: Charles Devus
Gallery 1: 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 a gallery of a selection of works from by the artists she engaged with.
Gallery 2: 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 a gallery of a selection of works from by the artists she engaged with.
Gallery: Re-framing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians
Bridget Telfer, Project Curator, introduces a sample gallery of images of disabled people from the 17th - 19th centuries, held in the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) archive. The exhibition, with responses from disabled people today, is on show at Shape, London until 29 September 2011.
Gallery: BlindArt
Gallery: Dolly Sen
Gallery: Altered Images
Gallery: Maureen Oliver
Gallery: Aidan Moesby
Gallery: Nancy Willis presents Transformation
Gallery: Harry Matthews' visionary artworks
Gallery: urban wastelands, desolate places by Kit Wells
Gallery: David Feingold
Gallery: Jon Adams presents The Goose on the Hill
Gallery: Russell Jones presents Unleashed
Gallery: Rachel Gadsden: Breaking Barriers
Gallery: Caroline Cardus' artwork from the Driving Inspiration project
Gallery: selection of Mike Fryer's acrylics
Pauline Alexander: The Many Faces of Discrimination
Chris Hammond Gallery
Gallery: Tales From The Boarders
Gallery: Tony Heaton
Tommy McHugh
Phil Lancaster
Andrew Roberts
Lara Varga
Benedict Phillips: Invisible Apartheid of Words
Nancy Willis: Early Days Gallery
James Aldridge: Inside-Out
James Aldridge explores his relationship to disability and impairment
John Exell
Art + Power
Gallery of work from Art + Power, a learning disability group based in Bristol.
Sue Williams: Urban Regeneration
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive
Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum
Colin Hambrook: Dreams of the Absurd
Making paintings and prints about his experience of visions, hallucinations and dreams, brought Colin Hambrook into contact with emerging Disability Arts.