Artists

AIM consists of a group of artists who define themselves as learning disabled and as neurodiverse. We work in the public realm and provide opportunities for our artists to develop skills, knowledge and creativity through engaging in a range of artist-led projects.

Antonia is a photographer and film maker whose work focuses on mental health.

"I do stuff with words: disabled writer, activist, poet, spoken-word artist, actor, theatre-maker and creative practitioner."

As someone diagnosed as Autistic late in life, I have recently understood my deep connection with art as a way to make sense of the world, a way to question it and to try to find a place within it where I feel comfortable.

Reaching roots across Celtic countries, an invitation to listen inside the environmental sound artist and hear beneath the bark of the trees that heal her.

Anna Berry is known for creating socially and politically-conscious work in non-gallery environments.

"Making space for ‘Othered identities to exist and thrive. I love that moment when people can see themselves in the work sometimes for the first time. Reiterating the need for vulnerability."

Sonia Boué has a performative and responsive visual arts practice. Situated between her studio and online spaces her practice encompasses many forms, articulating a concern with home and the domestic as metaphors for exile.

Visual artist Caroline Cardus’s art practice focuses on creative activism.

Steph is a writer and illustrator specialising in mental illness, mental health and being a chronic pain survivor (or spoonie). 

Luke 'Luca' Cockayne (They/He)

Jenette Coldrick Morrell has been been a Interdisciplinary Artist over 50 years. Born in Cornwall in 1952, she was inspired by the artists she met as a child, who encouraged her ...

Dora Colquhoun is a neurodivergent artist and theatre maker based in the North West. She is a versatile performer who is interested in making bold, humorous work.

Grace's work often challenges viewers to reflect her resistance to a reductive label ‘disabled’ or the disorientating sense of fractured self 24/7 care engenders.

Lynn Cox: A mixed & multi-media artist whose work goes beyond the visual to involve other senses and perceptions

April Star Davis is a jewellery designer and artist

"I’m a disabled theatre maker with a background in dance, circus and cabaret. "

Drawing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember but it has been the centre of my professional world since I graduated from the North Wales School of Art & Design in 2008 (at the tender age of 42.)

"I like to give communities a voice, especially voices that don’t usually get heard. I am a multi-media artist and disability rights activist at an international level."

Ludovic is an artist and academic who explores relationships between science, visual art, sound and movement in drawing and mixed media, from a neurodivergent perspective.

Alistair Gentry is an artist and writer. He makes live art, performance lectures, interventions, participatory experiences and live role-playing games...

gobscure. lengthy track-record successfully delivering commissions, research, residencies and solo exhibitions

Hamblett produces experimental works through a variety of mediums, including painting, performance, sculpture, mixed media and video.

Coming from enormous lived experience within the intersections of under-class, immigrant and disability David’s work is about justice and aesthetics, changing the world by changing the representation and visibility of marginalised people.

‘Out of Order’ is devised, directed and produced by Tony Heaton and Terry Smith with a specially commissioned original musical score by the British composer John Woolrich.

Ray Jacobs is a movement and digital artist. He works as a solo artist, creating film, installation image and performance, and as a facilitator of creativity, fostering safe and supportive environments where people can express themselves through movement.

Kruse makes objects, drawings and site-responsive works. She is interested in the interstices between self and other, the difficulty of connection. Edges, boundaries, borders, seams and scars are constant themes.

April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an artist-filmmaker investigating image-making  as a site for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths.

"My practice is concerned with the body as a site of contention: from our somatic locations we experience the world uniquely."

"I strongly believe that every work of art made by a disabled person is already disabled art, regardless of its thematic content. Same goes for any other defining element of one's identity."

Sam seeks to answer how making art can offer space for new moralities that incorporate non-normative thinking and celebrate non-conformity with a particular focus on neurodivergent non-verbal modes of communication.

Kate McKennan is a life drawing teacher who is currently based in Nantwich and has exhibited widely.

Thomas Oscar Miles looks to inspire self empowerment, through embracing our vulnerabilities. This is celebrated through fragile and detailed imagery, centered around the narratives.

Chisato Minamimura is Deaf performance artist, choreographer and BSL art guide, born in Japan, now based in London.

"I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in the UK. My practice addresses themes of social injustice, grief and mourning within the context of climate crisis, illness and genocide."

"Every Artwork I have created has started with some form of writing – usually a poem"

Moesby is an artist and curator whose practice considers art, health and technology, investigates the dual crises of climate change and mental health and explores the relationships between the outer physical weather and internal psycho-emotional weather.

Jo Munton is a puppeteer and storyteller, sculptor and animator.

Mark attempts to express the mystical, dream-like and the sublime to convey the emotional and cognitive realities of the inner life as suggested by the beauty and transience of nature.

Zoe Partington has been commissioned by The Public and DASH to create a permanent piece of art for The Public in West Bromwich. This is one of five commissions, and is part of DASH's IN project.

Through their creative practices, Emma explores their relationship to the spaces and landscapes they call home.

My work explores personal issues in a secretive, abstract or indirect way. I use combinations and layers of colour, pattern, letters, and language to create prints.

Ceridwen Powell is an abstract and mixed media artist based in Wales. She is inspired by her local landscape and is interested in how shape and colour can express ideas and emotions.

Bel Pye is interested in the everyday art-making that is crucial to surviving hostile times.

Alice Quarterman's practice has been described as doing whatever she ****ing fancies, which she tries to continue living up to.

Tanya Raabe was Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has been a practising Visual Artist, devising artworks exploring and challenging identity, a disabled self and the nude in contemporary Art since 1987.

Carrie Ravenscroft is an artist and mental health advocate from London, using her personal experiences to inform her art.

Gaia’s practice is centered around process and the documentation of space, place and time. She is the founder of Rewilding the Artist which facilitates reimagining access and equity in the arts.

Daniel is a photographic artist specialising in complex and difficult emotional experiences

Christine Sun Kim is an American sound artist.

Featured DASH Artist of the Month. Find out more about Booker T's arts practice.

Diagnosed with the neurological condition called Dystonia in 2005, Caroles experience of art changed dramatically; creating became a much greater challenge, physically and mentally.

Ysabelle Vautour is a visually impaired artist and the founder of the NB Disability Art Collective and a graduate of Artslink’s Catapult Arts Accelerator Program.

Kristina Veasey is a visual artist who likes to flip negatives into positives, and find beauty in the mundane.

Hannah Wallis is an artist-curator, researcher and co-founder of Dyad Creative; an artistic partnership exploring performance, administration, curation and collaboration.

Williamson’s work is informed by his experience of becoming deaf and by a progressive sensibility towards disability. In the last thirty years he has created over 300 performances, videos, installations and publications around the world.

"I develop multi-sensory and interactive pieces that are often research based or have elements of data visualisation in them, and that challenge a conventional world view of human cognitive experience."

I make experimental music performances with vocals, sound poetry, improvisation, noise and movement.