ActionSpace artist, Nnena Kalu has made a splash by being nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize as a learning-disabled artist. Mark Sheerin reflects on the significance and brilliance of her Turner Prize exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, as part…
“Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin
Sarah Biffin is an artist with a remarkable story. She was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’. Teaching herself to write and draw from…
UK Disability History Month 2017 Postscript
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…
Disability & Visual Arts – KS1 & KS2 Assemblies
We have made 2 powerpoints on this year’s theme, for use in assemblies.
Celebrating the artistic history of people with disabilities – Shakira Dyer
> Celebrating the artistic history of people with disabilities Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell speaking at a DHM event in Portcullis House, Westminster Shakira Dyer reports on Disability History Month 2017 and its focus on the arts UK Disability History Month (DHM) has existed…
Launch Event 2017
Video footage, and accompanying materials used at the Launch of UKDHM 2017, at Portcullis House, Parliament. 22 November 2017.
Disability and Art – Secondary Assembly presentation
Given by Richard Rieser. All info in the presentation is elaborated on in the 2017 broadsheet.
Disabled photographer, Kev Howard’s exhibition d-FORMED
Saltburn-based Kev Howard’s social documentary and observational photography has reached global audiences for more than a decade. He’s photographed hundreds of bands, poets, artists and demonstrations in that time – with a photo of Benjamin Zephaniah appearing in The Independent,…
2017 Teaching materials overview
We have produced resources examining
a) the representation of disabled people across time and culture.
b) artists who were themselves disabled.
c) with National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) the history of the Disability Arts Movement, which has sought since 1970s to promote the work of disabled artists and to challenge the oppression disabled people continue to face.
a) the representation of disabled people across time and culture.
b) artists who were themselves disabled.
c) with National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) the history of the Disability Arts Movement, which has sought since 1970s to promote the work of disabled artists and to challenge the oppression disabled people continue to face.
2017 Broadsheet
12 page illustrated analysis providing essential background for teachers. This examines our three themes with a largely European perspective from ancient cultures to the present day.