Blindness, Art and Disability Gain: exploring ways of seeing and not seeing in the art gallery Tuesday 28 November at 6pm in Chakrabarti Room (JHB 208), Headington Campus Oxford Brookes celebrates Disability History Month with a talk by Dr Hannah…
Chuck Close 1940- Dyslexic Artist
Chuck Close Image source: F News Magazine The famous photorealist painter had to overcome many hardships in his life, but not without learning the value of perseverance. Chuck Close, most famous for his large-scale portraits that are divided into grids and…
Jackson Pollock 1912-1956
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. It is thought Pollock was Dyslexic.…
Auguste Rodin 1840 to 1917, Dyslexic Sculptor
Auguste Rodin Sculptor 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 🔊 ListenFrançois Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor known for his sculptures such as The Thinker and The Kiss. As a child he experienced severe difficulties in school. He was extremely nearsighted as well as…
Friday 24th November London Metropolitan Archives
Friday 24th November London Metropolitan Archives 40 Northampton Road London EC1R 0HB Tel: 020 7332 3851 An exciting programme of presentations and workshops will open up our understanding and perceptions of impairment, disability and the lived experience of people…
Disability History, Bleeding Hearts and Parasite People’ a Distinguished Visitor Lecture with Mike Oliver, Thursday 29 November 2017
The lecture will be taking place on Wednesday 29 November 2017 in the Darwin Conference Suite at the University of Kent, Canterbury at 18.00. There will also be a drinks reception in the Conference Suite at 17.30 with a buffet to…
Rachael Gadsden
“It took me a while to realise I was meant to be an artist” – Rachel Gadsden discusses her route into art, talking openly about disability and sharing human stories Rachel Gadsden is an acclaimed artist whose work explores universal…
August Walla, 1936–
Born on June 22, 1936 in Klosterneuberg in Lower Austria, August Walla remained an only son and had a very tight bond with his mother, who raised him as if her were a girl, hoping thus to spare him being…
Sigrid Hjerten, 1885–
Sigrid Hjertén was born 1885 in Sundsvall, Sweden. She was a pioneer of Swedish expressionism and the only female member of the artist group De Åtta. Together with her husband Isaak Grünewald, she traveled to Paris in 1909, in order to study…
Disabled Century BBC Produced and Directed by David Hevey
Can be viewed on line at www.davidhevey.com/viewing Episode 1 The Disabled CenturyEpisode 1 of 3 A look at the experiences of those disabled while fighting for their country in the two world wars, and the harsh, often brutal realities that confronted the vast…