Telling the hidden histories of disability and mental health through museum objects. (Not affiliated with any museum) For copyright issues please contact me!
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ALT Learning Programme of the Year WINNER Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester SENsory Atelier programme
ALT A cartoon of disabled cartoonist Crippen shows him holding up a banner saying" probably the best disabled cartoonist in the world
ALT Production shot of Unruly. Shows two female performers either side of a stage. Both are dressed in punk outfits. The set includes mirrors with disability rights slogans written on them
ALT A stylised head with colourful shapes grinning, with a giant primary coloured banner behind them.
ALT A close up of a giant, colourful banner says 'The Disability Arts Movement'.
ALT The front of a golden car with the number plate saying 'LAME'.
ALT Wooden shapes holding up a plaster cast of a body.
ALT UK Disability History and Heritage Hub poster, call for presenters for event wednesday 25th June 2025 on zoom. Information available https://ukdishisthub.mystrikingly.com/blog/2025-call-for-presenters
ALT A poster for an event. White handwriting and white text are shown on a red background. The writing on the poster says ‘Do Your Own Thing National Gallery Takeover! Friday 4 April, 6pm – 8.30pm. National Gallery, Trafalgar Square. Free and open to everyone!’ There is also a drawing of a horse and a drawing of a colourful mask, as well as two yellow wavy lines on the poster.
ALT District nurses’ medical bag from the 1920s. Workhouse nurses would have used similar tools and medicines
ALT White sheets with labels showing the types of cases and patients the workhouse nurses tended to
ALT Kidney dish similar to the ones used by workhouse nurses made from felt
ALT A screenshot of the virtual tour of Nothing Without Us: Experiences of Disability, showing one of the display cases from the trail. Floating around it in the digital space are a collection of icons representing text, video and photographs.
ALT Poster for the Call for Presenters for UKDHHH's 2025 Connecting + Sharing event, which is taking place on Wednesday 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Text reads: Our goal is to build networks amongst academic and independent researchers, museum and archive professionals and volunteers, creative practitioners, and activists and community groups. We are open to a range of presentation styles, topics, focuses and lengths - as long as your idea relates to the histories and lives of Disabled, Neurodivergent and Deaf people, we are interested! This event will be focussed around the theme of ‘Disability history through space and time.’ Topics may include: Disability histories (any time period) Physical space / access Crip time / spaces Disability representation in media The future of disability histories Disability histories in museum, university or community spaces We welcome diverse presentation formats. Please note your preferred type: 15-minute paper 5-minute presentation Workshops or convos
ALT Lime green poster with pink text reading: The Raging Sew & Sew! Continuing Lorina Bulwer's Legacy. Beside an image of a sampler on multicoloured fabric, white text on a brown background reads: Lorina Bulwer created long needlework samplers to record her rage at being incarcerated in a victorian great yarmouth workhouse lunatic ward. We want to re-create Lorina's famous tapestry with modern womens voices, especially disabled women and women with mental health difficulties in 6 workshops with yarmakers at Primeyarc in Yarmouth. Starting 12th March every weds 1-2pm for 6 weeks. Every Contributions will be turned into long scrolls to be exhibited at Primeyarc on May 10th. Interested? Email Dolly at [email protected] for more info or to book your place.
ALT A wheelchair is dressed with thorns
ALT A neon sign with the phrase "Piss on Pity" written in cursive script, glowing in bright pink. The sign is mounted on a wall painted in a matching pink hue. It is suspended by two metal chains, and the power supply is visible below the sign with wires running along the wall. The overall aesthetic gives off a bold, rebellious, and edgy vibe.