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Review: I Swear
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I Swear is the true-life story of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson following his adolescence and early adulthood in 1980s Britain. Alison Wi...
Review: Beyond the Visual
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the Visual at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds claims to be the ‘UK’s first major sculpture exhibition in which blind and partially blind...
News: Disability Arts Online announces Cripping Culture heritage project
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disability Arts Online (DAO) has received a £249,607 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support a major project which will save the sto...
News: Nabil Shaban Obituary
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DAO was saddened to hear of the death of Nabil Shaban, disabled activist, actor and writer who was co-founder of pioneering disability-led arts organi...
Review: Shape Open 2025, Rights Cuts Action
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year's Shape Open exhibition takes up the expansive space of High Wycombe's Brunel Engine Shed featuring work by 12 disabled artists alongside ar...
Review: Molly Joyce's album State Change - musical notes meet medical notes
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Joyce is an American performer and composer whose work explores disability as creative material. Her latest album, State Change uses surgical re...
Review: Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize exhibition
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ActionSpace artist, Nnena Kalu has made a splash by being nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize as a learning-disabled artist. Mark Sheerin reflects on ...
Opinion: 30 years of Benedict Phillips' Agresiv Dislecksick
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DAO editor Colin Hambrook gives an appraisal of the power of Benedict Phillip’s artwork ‘the agender of the agresiv dislecksick’ on the 30th ann...
Opinion: A Love Letter for Disabled Writers
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disabled writer and journalist Haneul Lee delivers an impassioned call, inspired by conversations with Julie Farrell and Ever Dundas, fellow writers a...
Review: gobscure's Edgecity monologues from the street feat. Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Edgecity: Monologues from the street is a series of texts reflecting life from the margins and on the streets, written by gobscure and performed along...
Review: Lisette Auton’s The Starlight Rebel - a manifesto for our times
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Starlight Rebel is a spellbinding space-age adventure which hums with a quiet manifesto for our times. Kate Lovell reviews Lisette Auton’s lates...
Interview: Liberty Festival 2025 sends a CRIPtic message - disabled artistry is exceptional
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberty Festival 2025 brings a celebration of disabled artistry to Wandsworth from 24–29 September. This year, disabled-led company CRIPtic Arts is ...
Opinion: BFI We Crip Film Festival - a mainstreaming of crip sensibilities?
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BFI Southbank's We Crip Film Festival during this year's Disability Pride Month promised to be 'a reclamation by the disabled film community to champi...
Review: Design and Disability at the V&A Museum
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and filmmaker Richard Butchins visits the Design and Disability exhibition at London’s V&A Museum. Promising to put disability on the map...
Review: Christopher Samuel, Watch Us Lead - an ecclesiastical antidote to erasure
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Us Lead is a new permanent exhibition by Christopher Samuel at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, combining interviews with disabled people of c...
Review: Finding Shelter and hope at the Outside In national exhibition
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Outside In provides a platform for artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance, or isol...
Review: Fiona Moon A Brief History of Neurodivergence - a birthday party for your neurodivergent brain
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Moon’s one-woman Fringe show explores the shame, pain and grief of a neurodivergent life alongside a tapestry of furious stimming, facts, audi...
Review: Cathy Mager’s Finger Talk - deaf heritage takes centre stage
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Finger Talk is a new installation by Cathy Mager which foregrounds BSL as a living, evolving language with a rich cultural history, bringing together ...
Review: The Dan Daw Show - disabled people getting screwed, just not as you know it
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dan Daw Show uses kink and theatricality to reclaim power and explore disabled sexuality in a way that is rarely seen on screen or stage. Elspeth ...
Review: Las Gemelas Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking)
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D Mistry interpret Southampton’s archive of the story of 4000 Basque children seeking refuge in Las Gemelas: ‘Arrival (...
Review: Claire Cunningham Songs of the Wayfarer
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Hambrook reflects on Claire Cunningham’s latest show Songs of the Wayfarer, bringing a world of hillwalking and Mahler together under one roof...