The blog section of the DAO website provides disabled artists and writers with a space to give our readers an inside view of their art practice, share thoughts and receive comments and feedback.
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The first two lines here are as how I remember Yoko Ono’s Earth Piece V. Her instruction must have been positive but I’m inclined some times to the negative. Today is 31st July 2019. Boris Johnson has been PM for a week. Elected by the Tories not the people. His schtick is to finish Brexit. ...
Satirical collage featuring Boris Johnson eating an ice cream under the headlines a new form of crim and the hot vax summer
Ask anyone. I photograph trees. Less well known I photograph walls and fences. They fascinate me. Make me question. I built my own walls. I lived inside fences. I stepped outside both into new worlds by mending bridges. Walls. Fences, BridgesWalls. What are they there forTo keep in or keep outTo make a record Of what is mine, ...
The three companies used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to carry out benefit assessments have been faced with repeated criticisms over their links to deaths and serious harm caused to disabled benefit claimants. Disability Arts Online · Companies used by DWP make no attempt regarding safeguarding The companies, Atos, Capita and Maximus, have made ...
With everything that's been going on over the last month I've been thinking about the shit women are just expected to deal with. I've been thinking a lot about the low levels of sexual harassment that are normalised in our society and how corrosive it is for the women. I'm not even talking about the ...
This is the first of my new blog ‘The Liz Bentley Delivery Woman’. I’d been wracking my brains with what to do after ‘Liz Bentley waiting for the Tesco Delivery Man’ and then it became obvious. I write about my own experience anyway, so why not just admit that the blog is about me. Me, ...
DAO's Digital Influencer Deen Hallissey chats with his old buddy and fellow digital influencer for Access All Areas, Cian Binchy about art and acting. https://youtu.be/YsfQdUZLZxg A transcript of this conversation is available here.
For many visually impaired people who recently tried to access National Rail websites it was as if someone had decided to make the sites as inaccessible as they could. Disability Arts Online · UK rail network goes grey scale Network Rail and National Rail websites had turned from colour to grey scale overnight rendering them completely ...
increasingly the put-down line from the cons is 'yr being political' ... if yu dont like the state of things. so for the upcoming elections were attempting to be neutral as the beeb (!) - satire 4 all, have we got the hang ov it? what dya think?? (couldnt find evidence of dem-libs saying / ...
I am thrilled to be one of the recipients of the latest Unlimited awards, partnering with the Wellcome Trust. I saw the shortlist of the amazing projects of other artists and feel lucky I was chosen. I must thank my lovely producer Caroline Cardus for her hard work putting the application together. I have more ideas ...
