Vital Xposure

Artist

Vital Xposure is a disabled-led touring theatre company that promotes hidden voices with extraordinary stories to tell. The company was founded by disabled artist and activist Julie McNamara, who led the company’s creative work and artistic vision for its first decade. From January 2021, the torch has been passed on to

The Vacuum Cleaner

Artist

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. From one-man shows to large-scale participatory actions, his approach is both subtle and extreme, but always candid, provocative

Sue Austin

Artist

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. This is being used as a metaphor to raise questions about the value of diversity to

Robert Softley

Artist

Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over 10 years of experience in diverse and varied roles – including disability rights activist, actor and performer, writer, artistic director and supporter and advocate of equality of access to the arts for disabled people whether as artists or

Ramesh Meyyappan

Artist

Ramesh continually seeks to develop and extend his theatrical visual vocabulary incorporating circus techniques and bouffon within his work. He enjoys the challenge of creating strong narrative work. Over the years, his solo performances and collaborations have toured nationally and internationally to much critical acclaim. Ramesh is interested in creating new

Rachel Gadsden

Artist

Rachel Gadsden is a unique and exciting visual artist who creates dynamic work and leads a range of national and international participative programmes. Gadsden’s work explores themes of fragility and resilience, and the universal and deeply positive desire to survive and she is motivated to empower others to find a

Mind The Gap

Artist

Mind the Gap is England’s largest learning disability theatre company that creates work for UK and international audiences. Our vision is to work in an arts sector where there is equal opportunity for performers with learning disabilities: a world where performers are trained, respected and employed equally, and feature every day

Laurence Clark

Artist

Laurence Clark is an internationally-acclaimed comedian, presenter, writer and actor who has cerebral palsy. His observational, political stand-up and hidden camera footage demonstrate the endearing naivety and ridiculousness of human behaviour by seeing the world through his eyes with humour and warmth. He’s performed everywhere from the House of Commons

Krazy Kat Theatre Company

Artist

Creating visual theatre with creative and original use of sign language for young audiences, Deaf and mixed ability, their families and friends, Krazy Kat tours the UK and beyond with work that bristles with ingenuity and good humour. Established in 1982 Krazy Kat Theatre Company has a reputation for witty and

Juan delGado

Artist

Juan delGado works across a range of media including installation and photography and has produced an extensive body of work that explores themes of trauma, landscape, disability, dislocation and gender. delGado has exhibited widely including at ARCO’05 in Madrid; Freud Museum, London; Budapest Biennale; Salisbury Arts Centre; Istanbul Biennal, Lighthouse, Poole