Artist and company profiles
This is a list of professional Deaf and disabled artists, or disabled-led companies, who are actively seeking international partners and opportunities. Each artist or company currently has work ready to tour or for exhibition. We are proud to list companies from all over the world.
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Aaron McPeake
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Aaron is a sculptor who works with a variety of media and materials including film. Much of Aaron's work involves casting bell-bronze, creating sculptures that can be interacted with, touched and ‘rung’. Read more
ActionSpace
Tags: Visual Arts
ActionSpace supports the development of artists with learning disabilities and creates innovative projects for people with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts. Read more
Aidan Moesby
Tags: Design, Live Art, Visual Arts
Aidan Moesby is a visual artist and curator whose work increasingly explores civic and personal wellbeing. His practice is based around research and response, much of which is underpinned through conversations. He works extensively within arts and health, especially where art, technology and wellbeing intersect. Read more
Anna Berndtson
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Theatre, Visual Arts
Performance is the foundation of my artistic practice, working foremost with Long Duration Live Performance Art. The public is essential in my work, as their presence becomes part of the live experience. Being present over several hours or even over several days is the main challenge in this art form. Read more
Artistas Diversos
Tags: Dance, Visual Arts
Artistas Diversos is an NGO that produces and exhibits the work of disabled artists covering all types of artistic expression, from all over the world - free of charge for the artist. Read more
BLIND WITH CAMERA
Tags: Visual Arts
Blind With Camera is a flagship initiative of the Beyond Sight Foundation. It is group of blind photographers and collection of their photographic work, it embraces blindness as a “dark, paradoxical gift” and their work expresses the philosophy that “in blindness, true art exists”. Read more
Caglar Kimyoncu
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Improvisation-led filmmaker, curator and consultant with a continued interest in alternative representations of excluded voices of all kinds including conscientious objection. Read more
Chelle Destefano
Tags: Visual Arts
Chelle is an established Visual Artist, having graduated with a bachelor in Visual Arts and Applied Design in 2007. Read more
Dançando com a Diferença
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
Institution whose main goal is to promote social inclusion and culture through inclusive dance. Read more
Dilan Aydemir
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Dilan Aydemir is a disabled visual artist from Turkey who works in multimedia. Read more
Dr Ju Gosling aka ju90
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Visual Arts
Artist working mainly with digital lens-based media, but also with performance, text and sound. Read more
Epic Arts
Tags: Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts
Epic Arts uses the arts as a powerful tool for transformation that explores and celebrates the richness of diversity through creative experiences. We work with people of all abilities and backgrounds through our Inclusive Education, Community and Social Enterprise Programmes to encourage a change in perceptions and attitudes at both a personal, and public level. Read more
Estela Lapponi
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Theatre, Visual Arts
Estela Lapponi is an actress, dancer, creator / performer, choreographer, artistic director, producer and Brazilian video artist. Read more
Fittings Multimedia Arts
Tags: Comedy, Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Disability-led national organisation that makes popular theatre characterised by directness, comedy, music, emotion and immediacy, working with material, performers and artists, reflecting the UK's diverse cultures. Read more
Heart & Sold
Tags: Visual Arts
Heart & Sold supports creative people who happen to have Down syndrome. Its aim is to educate, inspire, raise awareness and prove that these individuals can do or be whatever they want to be. Read more
Juan delGado
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Works across a range of media including installation and photography to producing work that explores themes of trauma, landscape, disability, dislocation and gender. Read more
Katherine Araniello
Tags: Film, Live Art, Music, Visual Arts
Katherine Araniello is a London-based performance and video artist, who uses subversive humour in response to the mundane, social awkwardness and the negative representation of disability. Read more
Lizzy Rose
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Lizzy Rose is a British visual artist whose work explores community, British identity and hidden culture. Read more
NWN Photography
Tags: Visual Arts
'NOS, WHY NOT?' works to facilitate inclusion through photography, creating an international network of photographers with disabilities. Read more
Olivier Jamin
Tags: Visual Arts
Olivier Jamin is a Contemporary Artist who has been Deaf since birth and has had a long life passion for the arts. Read more
Per.Art
Tags: Dance, Film, Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Per.Art is an independent organization active in the field of contemporary performing arts in Serbia. Since 1999, our Art and Inclusion program has brought together people with learning disabilities, artists (theatre, dance and visual arts), special educators, representatives of cultural institutions, architects and students. Read more
People Dancing
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Visual Arts
People Dancing is the UK's development organisation and membership body for those involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance. Read more
Rachel Gadsden
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Rachel is a British artist who is exhibited internationally and who works across the mainstream and disability art sectors, presenting cross-cultural visual dialogues that consider the most profound notions of what it is to be human. Read more
Shadowlight Artists
Tags: Film, Visual Arts
Multi-award-winning collective of Oxfordshire-based digital artists with learning disabilities Read more
Shape
Tags: Dance, Live Art, Visual Arts
Shape is a disability-led arts organisation founded on the principle that all disabled people should have the opportunity to participate fully in arts and culture, and works with the vision of an inspiring and inclusive arts sector that is accessible to all. Read more
ShareMusic & Performing Arts
Tags: Dance, Film, Live Art, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
Swedish artist development organisation that works internationally Read more
Simon Mckeown
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Simon McKeown is an award winning internationally exhibiting visual artist renowned for his work which touches on and considers disability. Read more
Sue Austin
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist. Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair. Read more
SZENE 2WEI
Tags: Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts
SZENE 2WEI implements bodily specificities as a medium in dance Read more
Tanya Raabe
Tags: Live Art, Visual Arts
Tanya Raabe-Webber is an acclaimed disabled artist challenging the notion of identity within contemporary portraiture, often creating portraits of high profile disabled people during live sittings in high profile public art galleries and venues. Read more
The Vacuum Cleaner
Tags: Film, Live Art, Visual Arts
the vacuum cleaner is an art and activism collective of one. Working across art-forms: including performance, installation and film, the artist addresses challenging and taboo issues such as consumerism and mental health. Read more
Together! 2012
Tags: Comedy, Dance, Fashion, Film, Literature, Live Art, Music, Spoken Word / Live Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts
Working to make the main host borough of Newham an international centre of excellence for Disability Arts as part of the Paralympic cultural legacy. Read more
Tony Heaton
Tags: Visual Arts
Tony Heaton is a Visual Artist/Sculptor and Curator who works in a variety of materials from direct carving to assemblage and film. Much of his work reflects and responds to a disabling world. Read more
