Blogs

21 July 2010

DAO blogs

For a disabled artists' view of disability and deaf arts culture

photo of the feral 4 Aaron Williamson

Image: Aaron Williamson

This section of dao provides disabled and deaf artists with a space where they can give our readers an inside view of their art-making, their opinions and the day-to-day background to their working lives.

These blogs provide an informative and entertaining insight into how disability and impairment are experienced from the point of view of the disabled/Deaf artist.

Do you want to be a dao blogger? Are you a practising disabled/Deaf artist embarking on an interesting project or journey? Have you experience that you would like to share with our readers?

Why not email your ideas to editor@disabilityartsonline.org.uk?

Blogs

  • Thumbnail image for Colin Hambrook
    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

  • Thumbnail image for Sophie Partridge
    Sophie Partridge's Blog

    Sophie Partridge has performed in several productions with Graeae Theatre Company, 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?!

  • Thumbnail image for Vince Laws
    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.”

  • Thumbnail image for Alison Wilde
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Dolly Sen
    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,

  • Thumbnail image for Joe Kelly
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Joe McConnell
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Caroline Cardus
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Tanya Raabe
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Anne Teahan
    Anne Teahan's Blog

    Artist Anne Teahan has started a special arts research project, ‘Sharing Cultures: Disability and Visibility’. Central to her research is 'Revealing Culture' - an international disability arts exhibition of 55 artists, showing at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington from 8 June - 29 August 2010. Her blog is a reflection on each day of a week spent in Washington and is the starting point for the project.

  • Thumbnail image for Jon Adams
    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 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.

  • Thumbnail image for Melissa Mostyn
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Penny Pepper
    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.

  • Thumbnail image for Gary Thomas
    Gary Thomas' blog

    Artist and Filmmaker Gary Thomas looks at the relationship between art and film, why it's sometimes uncomfortable, and how he deals with his own 'strands', (including disability), both personally and professionally. He'll also be writing about his own work as well as developing other projects, including films about the Olympics.

  • Thumbnail image for Cirque-Nova Blog
    Cirque-Nova Blog

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

  • Thumbnail image for Rockinpaddy
    Rockinpaddy

    Rockinpaddy (John Kelly) introduces himself to DAO readers. A musician, facilitator and vocalist who will be singing in Graeae’s latest production Reasons To Be Cheerful.

  • Thumbnail image for Signdance Collective
    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.

  • In Touch with Art

    In Touch with Art is Europe’s leading conference about museums, heritage and people with vision impairment. This blog discusses the perspectives on equal access to museums for people with vision impairment.