This years theme of Visual Art and Disability has been a great success. We produced and distributed 2,300 copies of the 12 page Broadsheet. http://ukdhm.org/2017-broadsheet/ We had a 2 page article in Septembers issue of the Teacher that goes to…
St Pauls’s Byatt Road, Stoke on Trent – Art Competition Winners
St Paul’s remove the barriers to disability through art The competition was idea of Nursery Teacher Mrs Turton who was finding out about the UK Disability History Month which started yesterday. She held a gallery to display the art work…
Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds 1960-
‘Having four fingers and 13 toes never stopped me doing what I love’: Thalidomide campaigner opens up on her inspirational battle against the odds Cardiff University’s first disabled student Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds chronicles her struggle for equality – and life as…
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…
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…
Yvonne Mabs Francis, 1945–
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.…