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…
Lisa Fittipaldi, 1948–
Lisa not only learned to paint after losing her sight, she wrote a book about it. Her inspiring use of color and her ability to tell which color she is using just by feeling the texture of the paint are…
Alison Lapper, 1961–
Alison Lapper has phocomelia and was born without arms and with shortened legs. Since her childhood, she has lived in homes and has had little contact with her kinship. The mother saw her child for the last time at the age of four months; later…
Peter Longstaff, 1961–
Peter is a foot painter. He creates all of his artwork using just his feet, having no arms. Peter’s disability stemmed from the drug thalidomide, which was prescribed for morning sickness until it was discovered that it caused deformities fetuses.…
Joseph Cartin, 1953–
JOSEPH CARTIN Cartin is from Brooklyn and actively lives with bipolar disorder. He has been active in the Mental Health Consumer Movement since 1990 and considers himself a “psychiatric survivor”. He has won numerous art competitions and does corporate design…