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National Disability Art Collection And Archive
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) is a British collection focusing on Disability Arts which opened in 2019. It consists of an online collection and a facility at the High Wycombe campus of Buckinghamshire New University, and features over 3500 objects. The project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and is led by Shape Arts, with David Hevey as the project's creative director, and founded by Tony Heaton. NDACA is influenced by the social model of disability, looking at the role of disability art relating to the disability rights movement within the UK. It contains a range of artwork, including painting, sculpture, textiles and more, much of which is protest art campaigning about the treatment of disabled individuals at the time. It includes a timeline of the disability rights movement and its associated artwork, including the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. In 2020 Shape Arts received funding to create the National Disabil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disability Art
Disability art or disability arts is any art, theatre, fine arts, film, writing, music or club that takes disability as its theme or whose context relates to disability. Meaning and context Disability arts is an area of art where the context of the art takes on disability as its theme. Disability art is about exploring the conceptual ideas and physical realities of what it is like to be disabled or concepts relating to the word. Disability art is different from Disability in the arts which refers more to the active participation or representation of disabled people in the arts rather than the context of the work being about disability. Disability art does not require the maker of the art to be disabled (see Disability Arts in the Disability Arts Movement for the exception) nor does art made by a disabled person automatically become disability art just because it was a disabled person that made it. * An example of disability art by a non-disabled person: ''Alison Lapper Pregnant'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie McNamara
Julie McNamara (born 26 March 1960) is a theatre director, playwright, producer, actor and poet. She is artistic director of touring theatre company Vital Xposure. Patron of disability arts organisation DaDaFest and a political activist for human rights and gender politics. Early career McNamara first performed as a backing singer in 1977 with punk band The Plague. That same year she was voted Actress of the Year in Merseyside Drama Festival. She went on to work with Lowbrow Theatre, and the National Student Drama Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She wrote and directed a trilogy: Venus and the Fly Trap, Cock and Bull Stories and Kill the Fatted Calf all produced in Nottingham 1981- 2. By 1987 she was working for socio-political company Banner Theatre touring the UK's Trade Union clubs, factory floors and picket lines. Theatre and disability The majority of McNamara's work is created to ensure access for Deaf and disabled people is aesthetically integrated within the pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disability In The Arts
Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability. It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw. Disability in the arts is distinguished from disability art in that it refers to art that includes people with disabilities, whether in themes, performance, or the creation of the artwork, rather than works focusing on disability as the central theme. It can also refer to work that is made as a political act toward shaping a new community, fostering disability culture: People with disabilities sometimes participate in artistic activities as part of expressive therapy (also known as "expressive arts therapy" or "creative arts therapy"). Expressive therapy may take the form of writing therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, or another artistic method. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Finkelstein
Victor (Vic) Berel Finkelstein (25 January 1938 – 30 November 2011) was a disability rights activist and writer. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and later living in Britain, Finkelstein is known as a pioneer of the social model of disability and a key figure in developing the understanding the oppression of disabled people. Biography Early life Vic Finkelstein grew up in Durban, South Africa. He studied at The University of Natal, Durban and Pietermaritzburg, before taking a Masters in psychology at Witwaterstrand University in Johannesburg. During this time he became involved with anti-apartheid activism. In the 1960s, Finkelstein was imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities. Following a spell of hard labour, he was issued with a five-year banning order (1967–1972) under the Suppression of Communism Act. Finkelstein came to the UK in 1968 as a refugee and joined the emergent British disability movement. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cribb
Steve Cribb (Peter Stephen Cribb 1944-1994) was an English disability rights activist, artist, collector and numismatist. Disability activism Cribb was in public office as a London Borough of Hounslow councillor and later as a development officer for the disabled in the same borough. He is particularly well known for his artworks, working with the London Disablity Art Forum and Shape Arts. He was the grandson of the sculptor, letter cutter and carver Joseph Cribb and brother of the numismatist Joe Cribb. Exhibiitions * 1991 Hanging Up in Hounslow, at Louder than Words Festival (May 1991) * 1992 Wilder than Lourdes: The Alternative Cabaret Party, at Louder than Words Festival (March 1992) * 1993 Defiance: Art Confronting Disability (City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent) (April 1993) * 1993 How We Like It (LDAF exhibition, Diorama Arts Center) (November 1993) * 1994 Famous Now I'm Dead - Steve Cribb retrospective (Waterman Art Gallery) (August 1994) * 1995 Unleashed: Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Gadsden
Rachel Gadsden is a UK-based visual artist and performance artist who is exhibited internationally and who works across the mainstream and disability art sectors. Gadsden has led a range of national and international participative programmes exploring themes of fragility and resilience. She has had a lung condition all her life and is injected by a syringe driver at one-minute intervals with the medication she needs to keep her alive. Education Gadsden's artistic career began with the support of a Prince's Youth Business Trust Award (1988). Gadsden received a BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 1998, an Anatomy for Artists Diploma from UCH Medical School, London in 2000 and MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School in 2001. History Gadsden's artistic process explores the physical, historical and personal experience of aspects of the human condition. Experimenting with what the artist calls a psycho-geographical approach she explored the derelic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hunt (activist)
Paul Hunt (1937 – 1979) was an early disability rights activist and leader of disabled people's campaigns in the UK against residential institutions and for independent living. He was born on 9 March 1937 in Angmering, Sussex, with an impairment and he died aged 42 years in London, on 12 July 1979. His work and political influence is now cited in academic and political writings. Hunt disliked having his photograph taken and shunned publicity. It was only after his death that the impact of his writings, campaigning, leadership, and achievements began to be documented. Early life Paul Hunt had six sisters. His mother taught him to read, and he attended the local church primary school for girls, followed by a mixed junior school. When he was eleven years old he was moved to start living in institutions. The first of these was St Mary's residential School for Handicapped Children in Bexhill-on-Sea. In 1951, aged 14 years, he broke a leg outside the family church while at home from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Shaban
Nabil Shaban (born 12 February 1953) is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded Graeae—a theatre group which promotes disabled performers. He's best known as the recurring villain Sil in ''Doctor Who''. Early years and career Shaban was born in Amman, Jordan, with brittle bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta. He was sent to England for medical care, where he grew up in a series of hospitals and residential homes. He studied at the University of Surrey in the late 1970s and contributed to the Students' Union newspaper "Bare Facts". In 1997, Shaban was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university for services in the promotion of Disability Arts. One of his most memorable television roles was that of the reptilian alien Sil in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Shaban played Sil in two serials: '' Vengeance on Varos'' (1985) and '' Mindwarp'' (1986), and created Sil's laugh. He reprised the role in the Big Finish audio dramas ''Mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mik Scarlet
Mik Scarlet (born 1965) is a broadcaster, journalist, actor and musician, as well as an expert in the field of access and inclusion for disabled people. He has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, and was one of the first television presenters in the world with a physical disability. Early life Scarlet was born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He is a wheelchair user due to the consequences of cancer during infancy. Career As one of the first generation of disabled television presenters, Scarlet is best known for presenting the 1992 Emmy Award winning and BAFTA nominated children's television programme "Beat That" on Channel Four. He won a UNICEF award for work with disabled children. He has also played several cameo roles in shows such as Brookside and The Bill, and was a presenter for BBC2's "From the Edge". He has appeared in numerous television programmes including 2point4 Children. Scarlet is a regular correspondent for The Huffington Post. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mat Fraser (actor)
Mat Fraser (born 1962) is an English rock musician, actor, writer and performance artist. He has thalidomide-induced phocomelia. In 2017, he was cast to play Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' at the Hull Truck Theatre as part of Hull City of Culture 2017. Musical career Between 1980 and 1995 Fraser was a drummer with several rock bands including Fear of Sex, The Reasonable Strollers, Joyride, The Grateful Dub, and Living in Texas, who had a number one single in Italy. Fraser played the drums with Graeae Theatre Company's "Reasons to be Cheerful" at the 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony, where he also hosted the pre-televised section,Flippers and strippers – Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz ime Out London, 31 August 2012 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Oshodi
Maria Oshodi (born 1964) is a British writer and theatre director. A guide dog owner, she is Artistic director and CEO of Extant Theatre Company, Britain's only professional performing arts company of blind and partially sighted people. Life Maria Oshodi was born in South London in 1964. Oshodi's play ''The 'S' Bend'' was chosen for the Young Writers' Festival at the Royal Court Festival in 1984. Produced by the Cockpit Youth Theatre in 1985, it was chosen for the first International Festival of Young Playwrights, Interplay '85, held in Sydney. ''Blood, Sweat and Fears'', a play treating sickle cell anaemia, was written in response to a request from a worker at the Sickle Cell Centre in Lambeth. Ben is a fast-food worker who suffers from sickle cell anaemia, but resists pressure from his girlfriend Ashley to label himself as disabled. Once hospitalized, he has to attempt agency within a health-care system that is ill-informed and discriminatory. The play was first presented by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell Of Surbiton
Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, (born 19 April 1959)Living with Dignity - Not Dying with Dignity Baroness Campbell's official website, accessed 25 April 2016 is a British disability rights campaigner and . She was Commissioner of the (EHRC) from 2006 to 2008. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
