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ARTS - ARTISTS
INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS
| Howard’s Total Vise designs and manufactures holding and positioning devices, some of which can be utilized by people with a disability to stabilize and position craft and hobby projects.
The Total Vise system is user-friendly and quick to operate — work can be installed and removed in seconds. You can easily and almost instantly adapt this vise for use with your own tools and jigs. The vise will articulate and lock at any point with speed and ease. Attachments simply drop into the main locking tube where you can adjust and lock your work. Capable of holding hundreds of pounds, the vise has a simple built-in safety mechanism.
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| Ben Ward is a senior cultural custodian of the Miriwoong people. Until his car accident several years ago, which left him in a wheelchair, he had worked for many local organisations as a health worker, a field officer, a station hand and also worked in community education. He has held the position of Director for many local community organisations and between 2011–2014 he was Chairperson of Waringarri Aboriginal Arts. |
| Brom Wikstrom is an artist who paints with his mouth as the result of paralysis. He sustained an injury to his spinal cord in 1975 while swimming when he was 21 years old. His work is reproduced on cards and calendars and is marketed world-wide through the International Association of Mouth & Foot Painting Artists. He has exhibited his paintings around the world and teaches in local schools. He has many paintings in prominent collections in America. Your comments are appreciated and encouraged...? |
| There's absolutely nothing funny about a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. Unless, of course, that person is John Callahan. For nearly a decade, this irreverent cartoonist has been shocking America with his own special brand of wicked humor. In the world of Callahan, nothing is sacred, nothing is taboo and nothing is funnier!
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| Cobie Ann Moore is an Artist and Designer living and working in Sydney. She studied Design and Art Education at UNSW Art & Design graduating in 2015 with Honours in Design.
As an artist two prominent themes Cobie often explores are beauty and suffering. Much of her work seeks to explore the delicate balance between these two concepts. Often, bright colours are used in the depiction of darker subject matter, using the contrast between colour and content to challenge traditional representations. |
| ONAIR Contemporary Art Studio documents the exhibition and event history of Daniel Kojta's arts practice. As a new media artist working with all mediums from interactive technology to sculpture and Performance art.
As a paraplegic Daniel has climbed Uluru (with local permission), the 3 Sisters, Dogface & many routes through Mt Victoria and Katoomba. He has travelled extensively through Australia from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Broome and down to the Nullabor. These journeys have created many great tales and sourced many of his contemporary art works. Having just exhibited through several Sydney galleries including 'Stills' @ Paddington, Daniel will be showing at the Power House Museum 'Beta Space' and working his latest performance action with a Sydney Dance company.
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| Online gallery of author, artist/sculptor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, Donna Williams. Diagnosed with autism, many of the works illuminate the experience of autism and interactions between autistic and non-autistic community.
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| Seattle artist, Ginny Ruffner, can’t be summed up in one word, but the most commonly used term is “inspiring”. Adding to Ruffner’s extraordinary story is her astounding recovery from a near-fatal car accident in 1991 which left her in a coma for five weeks and confined to a hospital for five months. Doctors were convinced that she would never walk or talk again, but true to her indomitable spirit, Ginny Ruffner transformed a potentially tragic accident into a career of even more imaginative artistic creations. |
| In 1977 during my fifth form year, at the age of 15, I broke my neck as the result of a rugby injury. Not the smartest thing I've ever done, made worse as we didn't even win the game! Despite over 40 years in a wheelchair, I've lead a very full life and have been privileged to do a number of things, traveled to many destinations around the world and generally ticked off quite a few things on my bucket list and I'm not finished yet!
There's no real secret to success – ‘work hard, seize every opportunity and never give up’. Follow that formula and success will follow, especially when you keep things in perspective, embrace a sense of humour and try and maintain balance in your life! |
| Hamish Graham used to be a renowned handyman until a game of backyard cricket with his son turned him into a quadriplegic. Hamish credits digital art therapy, with the help of a mouth-controlled mouse, giving him a renewed appreciation for life. |
| In addition to her "day-job," Jaehn freelances as a performing artist, touring nationally to perform her orginal one-woman shows, Belle's on Wheels and Tail Tell Tale. She also freelances as a residency teaching artist, offering classes and workshops in community settings. Jaehn also danced professionally for three years, with Atlanta's only integrated professional modern dance company, Full Radius Dance.
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| Ju Gosling, aka ju90, is a 40-something disabled webmaster and multimedia storyteller who works mainly with digital lens-based media, but also with performance, text and sound. |
| My tractor accident caused injury to my spinal cord at level c4 to c6 and leaving me a quadriplegic with no ability to move my body from my shoulders down. In time with rehab and hard work I can now use my arms with limited movement but no use of my fingers. I'm now able to paint using splints strapped to my hand and arm, and by using my mouth to change and position brushes. |
| "Sesow didn't have any formal art training, but his work is gaining recognition in the small but growing world of so-called visionary art. The genre -- sometimes called outsider art, art brut or contemporary folk art -- groups works by self-trained artists who deal with very personal issues, often their own disabilities... Through his art, Sesow worked through the emotional knots created by his childhood accident" (Cate Hescox, Reuters News, October 2004) |
| I have been doing art work and Photography since 1989 when I was diagnosed with a brain injury which prevented me from working. This was in a way a blessing, as I discovered that photography and art are enjoyable way for me to pass time.
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| It was fall of 1979 that I became a quadriplegic due to a terrible car accident. That night, I thought I would never be able to use my arms or legs again - I was right. Some people with spinal cord injuries tend to give up.
It was during my painful rehabilitation that I learn to sign my name with a pen. A few years later, I put a paint brush in my mouth and started painting. |
| When a 1975 diving accident left Michael a quadriplegic, an artist friend taught him the basics of paintings. After experimenting with different techniques, he went on to receive instruction at Penn State University to refine his art. Michael's enthusiasm for painting has superceded any obstacles he has encountered, and a heartfelt affection for his subjects is evident in all his paintings. |
| Mike always had an interest in art, however it was not until after his accident that he was able to fully explore all of the possibilities. His desire and passion for art was surprisingly rekindled with the purchase of a personal computer and a basic drawing program in 1993. |
| Pete Conroy had a quadriplegic spinal cord injury but continued full steam ahead on the path to becoming a full-time painter and illustrator. His website not only showcases his work but also features great video footage of Pete in the creative process. Definitely worth checking out. |
| For me, art has always been a means of travel a way to go places and see things. I have the soul of a wanderer, an artistic vagabond and hopeless romantic. ...through my art, I regularly sailed the seven seas, slew fire-breathing dragons, flew rocket ships to other galaxies and had shoot-outs with lawless desperados…all on a wrinkled sheet of brown paper.
At age 17, a paralyzing injury and life-long disability made real life travels extremely difficult if not impossible. Even so, I soon found I could still go anywhere and do anything by jumping into one of my "magic windows." The places I visit are sometimes real… other times imaginary. Regardless, I invite you to join me on my artistic journeys. Like me, I'm sure you'll feel you've been there before!"
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| My name is Todd Maness. I am a handicapped artist. I use my mouth to create my artwork. Creating art this way is more challenging, but much more rewarding. My artwork rivals the art of artist that use their hands to create art. I work mostly with nature art, country scenes, and animals of all kinds. The mediums I use include pens, watercolor, and acrylics. I also do some computer graphics. |
| Eighteen years ago Richard Maurovic was a stockman in Adelaide. A near fatal accident that meant he would never walk again also became the catalyst for a major career change. Today he is a highly successful painter and has has his first solo show in Sydney. "It is different. For me to paint and the way I do it - not being able to hold the brush, I have to strap the brush to my hand. It's a slow process," Maurovic said.
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| Artist, Portraitist, Writer, Arts Psychotherapist, Model, TV presenter! In 2003 Sophie was paralysed in a car accident aged 18. Initially she planned to study Law but following a dramatic change in perspective she decided to follow her heart and completed a Foundation Course in Fine Art whilst adapting to life in a wheelchair.She now works as a Portraitist and Artist from her studio in Brighton, exhibiting her award winning work regularly.
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| One of my favorite stories regarding my short stature is about a man I encountered while Christmas shopping with some friends in Marshall Field's. He looked like an African dignitary (nice suit with medals, flanked by secret service types) and stared at me in wonder. Later I found out he asked one of my friends, "What tribe is she from?" Apart from the occasional rude stares, though, people are generally very nice to me. I especially like meeting kids and explaining my short stature to them. I figure if they are taught early, they will be more accepting of others as adults.
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| Elisa settled in Arizona and in 1983, she studied art after a car accident left her permanently paralyzed.
In 1993 she earned her Master's Of Fine Arts Degree in painting at Arizona State University where she received the prestigious Phelps-Dodge award as well as other awards and scholarships for outstanding achievement.
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| Judy Sharp is a struggling single mother to teenagers, Tim and Sam, and they've come a long way from when she was told by doctors to put three-year-old Tim away in an institution and to forget about him. Tim's autistic, and today he communicates largely through his quirky drawings of 'Laser Beak Man", a down-to-earth superhero character of his own creation. Tim's Laser Beak Man was one of 200 works from around the world selected by jury for exhibition in the International VSA arts Festival in Washington DC. Jean Kennedy Smith, founder of the VSA arts Festival and sister of President John F. Kennedy, says Tim's work is a funny and that his good sense of humour comes through in the adventures of Laser Beak Man.
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| Tommy Hollenstein's artwork is colorful and chaotic yet infused with the optimism and transformative drama that define the Southern California experience. Tommy is a native Angelino ex-surfer boy who sports a mini-Mohawk bleach job and a tanned and mellow Valley boy manner. He's been getting lots of traction, so to speak, with his work. He paints by joystick — that is, with the tires of his power wheelchair — rolling through paint spilled on the floor, or with a dab of color coated on the tires to layer colors toward a unique, complex whole. He calls it a sort of "action painting."
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| Valerie Jankowski Skrabut is a self taught, award-winning artist. Her paintings express conceptual abstracts and realism in nature. Trained as a musician, Valerie turned to computer art to express herself when, in 1990, multiple sclerosis (MS) erased her ability to perform. |
| Accessible Arts is the peak arts and disability organisation across New South Wales.
Our vision is a society in which people with disabilities fully experience and participate in the arts and cultural life.
Our mission is to promote full inclusion, access and cultural opportunities in the arts for people with disabilities through advocacy, education and information. |
| For artistically active people who, as a result of illness, accident or a congenital disability, are unable on their own to make their works known to a broader public, the Association has become an extended international family which ensures their artistic development and a large degree of financial independence. |
| World's Largest Network of Independent Self-Employed Disabled Artists.
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| Do you want to be able to ride a motorcycle but a disability prevents you from doing it comfortably and safely? Perhaps you just want to get out of your wheelchair for a bit and have some awesome, exhilarating fun? 'Dreamfit' has assisted people with a disability to turn dreams into reality with innovative ideas for a wide range of activities including motorcycling, abseiling, boating, painting, hovercraft, fishing, land sailing...you name it!
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