Disability Portraiture
Portraits of influential figures of the Disability Arts Movement is part of NDACA. The worlds first National Disability Arts Collection and Archive Situated at Buckinghamshire University as a learning resource for the public and students to learn from. There are over 30 of my portraits in this archive along with may other disabled artists works.
Revealing Culture: HeadOn
I delved into the public art collections on display in Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern, seeking representations of the untold culture of disability. Initiating discussion with members of the public proved to be enlightening and exciting as they considered the visibility of Disability Culture within our civic art collections. Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Wolverhampton Art Gallery supported this pioneering project hosting the live portrait sittings – creating a platform for a dynamic way in to disability history and cultural identity.
Who’S WhO – Defining Faces of an Arts Movement
Who’S WhO – Defining Faces of an Arts Movement is a collection of portraits that challenge the notion of portraiture using disability aesthetics as a visual language. These portraits are of established and new emerging disabled artists who have and continue to pioneer disability arts and culture in todays society.
Each artist has been chosen because of their influence in shaping disability art as an arts movement in its own right and have in some way shaped my own journey as a leading disabled artist.
