Artist insight: Yvonne Mabs Francis I was born in Oxford in 1945. I attended Brighton School of Art and The Slade School of Art, London, in the Sixties. After leaving college I created Mabs, a business designing and manufacturing clothes.…
Sierra Leone amputees turn to art
Casualties from Sierra Leone’s civil war find a new horizon through art.
By Tom McKinley, BBC, 2002
By Tom McKinley, BBC, 2002
Tracey Lazard on UN CRPD Committee calling UK Government’s Treatment of Disabled People a Catastrophe
IL in Geneva We gave evidence to the UN in August alongside our sister DDPOs Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations were hailed as “world leaders” by the UN for their efforts in bringing to light the injustices and human…
Disability in Medieval Art
A selection of medieval depictions of disability from Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts, Deirdre Jackson, 2007
Marc Quinn, 1964–
Marc Quinn, a contemporary artist and sculpture, works arises from a deep fascination with existence. The materials are both form and content in which he uses art history to investigate and expand and broaden our thinking about the essence of…
Liu Shuai, 1989–
Liu Shuai mainly employs black and colored ink and uses both the two main techniques in traditional Chinese painting-Shui Mo, freehand or watercolor or brush painting, and Gong Bi, meticulous or court-style painting. Shauai suffers from cerebral…
Yinka Shonibare, 1962–
Yinka Shonibare race class and cultural Identity, 1962 – Yinka Shonibare is a British – Nigerian artist living in the United kingdom. He has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and postcolonialism within the contemporary…
Sanchita Islam, 1973–
Islam was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England to a “non-Sylheti“Bangladeshi parents. Islam’s father died when she was eight months old, at the time her mother was in her mid 20s with three children under the age of four. Islam and her sisters…
Tony Heaton, 1954–
Tony Heaton , Sculptor, lecturer, NDACA founder, Shape Chair Tony Heaton was born in Preston, Lancashire. At the age of 16, a motor bike accident left him with a spinal injury, he switched from a comprehensive school to a…
Nancy Willis
Nancy Willis is a London based artist whose work includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and moving image. Nancy has exhibited in the Whitechapel Open, Diorama Art Gallery, London, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and BBC Television Centre. She was Artist…