The Butterfly
The Visibility for Disability logo is the symbol of transformation. This design was created by a group of young students and their teacher, Indi Kaur, during a group discussion about the invisibility of disability. The butterfly represents beauty, diversity, endurance and life.
Paragon of Imperfection
By Karol O Loughlin
I saw a clip in ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’, which is a biographical drama directed by Julian Schabel and written by Ronald Harwood. The idea of being trapped in your body, unable to navigate the world in the way you want to. I believe many people can relate to the experience of not being able to do things in the way they imagine. This idea is what this artwork is inspired by. I wanted to have sacred geometry to remind us that nothing is an accident in nature and that all human beings have a purpose and a right to progress.
Karol O Loughlin
Website
karololoughlin.com
Stillness
By Anna MacDonald
My work is a mark of reverence of nature, where the superfluous is removed leaving the essence of something, a landscape, a memory. I aim to create works of unobtrusive beauty that encourage to viewer to find a moment of calm and contemplation.
Making work in this way helps me find a way of managing anxiety and depression that has previously affected and prevented me from living a full life.
Make Art is my meditation, my way of healing.
Website
annafmacdonald.com
Prosthetics in Time
Juliette Woolf recalls her son, Rio’s journey
“It's also taken a while to get the chronological order correct for lining up all Rio's old prosthetics/sockets. It’s been a really enjoyable "task" to remember which milestones he passed/which events he attended when he was wearing each one of them over the last 11 years! I want to recreate the attached photo which I took on 23rd December 2012, showing Rio with his leg collection/prosthetics that he wore from the age of 17 months to 4 and a half - now he has a total of 25 legs/old sockets, and we think we may be missing a couple more which might have been left behind at the prosthetics clinics when they were replaced with newer/larger sockets (they need to be changed every 6-9 months) - I usually remember to ask for the old ones back when they switch them over to the new sockets.”
Landing on Mars
Rio Woolf stars as an amputee astronaut landing on Planet Mars in ‘Mission Zukunft’, a film promoting diversity and inclusion.
Series of drawings
By Armando Alemdar Ara
Remembering
2018 oil pastel on watercolour paper
This artwork is about a Parkinsons sufferer. I wanted to examine his condition by depicting him in his sleep, possibly the only way he could remember his loved ones, his thoughts, himself. I wanted to show that even in the most debilitating stages of this illness, somehow, we can reconnect with our memory, with our being.
Focus II
2017 pencil on watercolour paper
As with the other Focus drawings in this series, the subject is in a state of despair, or self – examination, and unable to focus their attention to where they need to.
Focus III
2018 oil pastel and wash on watercolour paper
This is a version in the Focus series where the person has actually found their focus, their memory or their thought. They are probably asleep, but the position of the hands suggests that they are trying to touch, to remember, to acknowledge their body, their being.
Focus IV
2017 ink on paper
As with the other Focus drawings in this series, the subject is in a state of despair, or self – examination, and unable to focus their attention to where they need to.
Beach House
By Leora Wilson
I think Minecraft is one of the best programmes because it gives everyone a blank canvas where they can express themselves in any way. It is a virtual world where I can control all the settings. I don’t have to be bothered by the noisy soundscapes that that can be overwhelming in the real world, especially if you have autism.
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