Disability Arts Online

Blogs

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  Colin Hambrook

  Colin Hambrook has been editing Disability Arts Online in one form or another since 2002. Increasingly he has been posting some of his own artistic output... as well as commenting on the work DAO is engaged with...

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  Crippen's Blog

  Crippen ... probably now the best Disabled cartoonist in the world ... and you'll find him here on dao

• Sophie Partridge's Blog

  Originally from Hertfordshire, Sophie Partridge aspirations to be a writer and actor were cultivated in a small bungalow in Bracklesham Bay for Creative Young Disabled People. In autumn ‘99 she did Graeae's Missing Pieces training course. She went on to perform in several productions with Graeae, including the award-winning Peeling and Flower Girls. She has worked with David Glass Ensemble, Theatre Resource and Theatre Workshop. She has a French Canadian Mum, an 82 year-old Dad, two sisters, one brother, various uncles, aunts and cousins, great friends, good PAs and several virtual dogs. What more does a Girl need?!

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  Vince Laws Blog

  Vince Laws is a poet, artist, performer, campaigner. He writes poetry, performs poetry and make visual poetry: paintings, collage, posters, film, installations and recordings: “As an artist, I define what art is. As a poet, I define what a poem is. If my art can be anything from a painting to a concept, so can my poetry. I am a poem.”

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  Alison Wilde's film and tv blog

  Alison Wilde has a PhD from the Centre for Disability Studies which focused on portrayals of disability in the media. Her dao blog contains discussion of contemporary films and the occasional bit of television. Alison spends much of her leisure time at the local cinema, providing her with plenty of material... good and bad and ugly.

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  Dolly Sen's Blog

  Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She has published eight books since 2002; has taken on performance roles at The Young Vic, the Royal Festival Hall,

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  Joe Kelly's Blog

  Joe Kelly is former Director of Footsteps Arts, in Ealing, West London. He is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

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  Joe McConnell's blog

  Joe McConnell finds that he can't stop trying to make art. Is this pathology or therapy? Joe feels the time has come to start doing something other than ranting and scribbling apoplectically about political issues close to his heart; something which mental health professionals have deemed to be obsessive and undesirable. Well they are the professionals and surely must be right? Read his blog and find out.

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  Caroline Cardus' blog

  Visual Artist Caroline Cardus believes the hoops disabled people have to jump through in life are often inexplicable, unintentionally comical, or possess a weird logic only the person themselves is privy to. Caroline blogs about experiences in life that make her want to make Disability Art, and discusses the collaborative projects she is currently involved in.

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  Tanya Raabe's Blog

  Visual Artist Tanya Raabe makes work around the theme of body image. Her blog concentrates on 'Revealing Culture: HeadOn' - an artwork and piece of research exploring identity, disability culture, in contemporary portraiture and the nude.

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  Jon Adams' blog

  Jon Adams fine art practice draws upon a wide range of materials and processes which include photography, video, sound recording and digital sound and visual manipulation, 3D installations, traditional sculpture and illustration. Jon is currently a Research Fellow in Disability Arts within the Faculty of CCi at the University of Portsmouth. His work includes themes of hidden disability and positive dyslexia and Aspergers awareness combined with a subversive or geological context.

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  Melissa Mostyn's blog

  Melissa Mostyn-Thomas is a writer, journalist, visual arts practitioner and first-time deaf mother. She is embarking on a journey as a film-maker and scriptwriter inspired by her baby daughter Isobel. She blogs about her new adventure.

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  Penny Pepper's Blog

  Penny Pepper has been a writer and activist within the disability arts movement for 20 years or more. Her blog covers her latest spoken word performance amongst a variety of issues around what it means to be a disabled writer.

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  Cirque-Nova Blog

  Jean-Marie Akkermann gives an account of Cirque Nova's circus skills training programme for disabled people

• Megan Clancy's blog

  Megan Clancy is a hearing impaired journalist from California. She in the process of making a documentary about deaf Koreans during her stay in South Korea through the summer of 2010. Her blog follows her adventure and discusses how American culture differs from Korean culture.

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  Signdance Collective's Blog

  The Signdance Collective (SDC) are an international dance, music, theatre company based at Bucks New University in South East England. David Bower and Isolte Avila blog the companies travels to festivals worldwide.

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  Oska Bright On The Road

  Oska Bright On The Road has been taking films by and for learning disabled people around the world since early 2008. The Oska Bright steering group have been sharing their travels with DAO

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  Pádraig Naughton's blog

  Pádraig Naughton, Director of Arts & Disability Ireland, is attending the VSA International Festival and Conference in Washington DC. Over the coming week or so, Pádraig will reflect on ADI's involvement in the Festival as well as share his impressions of a week that will see over 2,000 people from 54 countries gather to experience performances, exhibitions, screenings and debates across the city.