Disability Arts Online

Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She posts some of her artwork, challenging the nature of 'madness.'

Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010

Maureen Oliver's paintings echo another dimension of reality. The narratives within her artwork engage the viewer with a need to find out more about the human drama described in her paintings - on show at at Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair, BAC, London - from 14-16 May 2010.

Aidan Moesby is a text artist who utilises a variety of media, technologies and approaches in order to realise the artwork.

Visual artist and writer Harry Matthews shares some of his images, with a description of the vision behind his paintings and drawings.

By exploring our urban wastelands and desolate places in his paintings, Kit Wells points up human frailty and helplessness in a landscape created for man’s ease of living, but resulting in an inner-city hell.

David Feingold is a visual designer turned social worker, turned doctoral student in disability studies at National-Louis University, Chicago. He has found a way to turn pain into pictures and anguish into art - Disability Art, that is - in the form of digital visual assemblages.

Jon Adams presents a gallery of images of artworks on exhibition at Pallant House Gallery from 13 October – 22 November 2009

Dao is delighted to present a gallery selection of paintings from Unleashed an exhibition of Russell Jones work presented by Creative Future at Brighton Media Centre Gallery from 20 - 31 July 2009.

A gallery of details from the Breaking Barriers painting, commissioned by Parliamentary outreach developed in partnership with Essex County Council, The Women's Library, Rethink, Epping Forest Museum, and Southend Discovery Museum.

Vicky-Hope Walker from Creative Bucks introduces a gallery of Caroline Cardus' work

Landscape painter Mike Fryer introduces a selection of his acrylic works.

In collaboration with disabled sound and media artists Jon Adams and Caglar Kimyoncu, Pauline Alexander produced The Art of Discrimination. Here are some stills from that video installation.

The Disability Action Network carried out many protests against the lack of accessible transport (amongst other things) during the latter half of the 1990’s. Peter Street recalls some of the action and shares some of his dramatic photographs.

Chris Hammond is a gifted graphic artist and designer as evidenced by her work for Full Circle Arts - look at its leaflets and website for examples. Her inspirations are eclectic, ranging from the late Ian Stanton, to Rothko's work at Tate Modern.

A series of works from the installations created for 'Tales from the Boarders' by artists Anne Teahan and Damien Robinson.

A selection of work by a leading artist within the Disability Arts movement.

Gallery of work from a Liverpool artist whose creativity came to the fore after having a stroke.

Phil Lancaster's compelling, computer generated images

DAO presents a small gallery of some of painter, Andrew Roberts' work.

Gallery of work from printmaker, Illustrator and Book Artist Lara Varga.

Benedict Phillips' UK and US residencies

A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Nancy Willis is an exceptional artist who has been exhibiting at mainstream and Disability Arts events since the mid 1970's.

James Aldridge explores his relationship to disability and impairment

Sculptural and visual arts pieces from John Exell in conjunction with Centrepieces - a Mental health system user-led art group in Crayford, Kent

Gallery of work from Art + Power, a learning disability group based in Bristol.

Paintings by Sue Williams

An introduction to the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive at Holton Lee

Beyond the Asylum: A collection of paintings by Rachel Gadsden which formed the basis for the accompanying narrative.

Making paintings and prints about his experience of visions, hallucinations and dreams, brought Colin Hambrook into contact with emerging Disability Arts.

Mark Ware has created a play, a film and an exhibition that's influenced by his life after a stroke at the age of 39.

Disabled cartoonist Dave Lupton has a unique cutting edge 'disability vision', and is currently looking for support to bring his cartoons to a wider audience.