Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Lindy Judge
• Kaye McDonald
• "Interview with Asphyxia"
  Asphyxia is an artist, author, activist and performer who has founded Amplio, a music app for Deaf and hard of hearing people. She also provides free online Auslan lessons and online art courses. Interview Summary Asphyxia is a Deaf artist whose journey into the arts started with a deep love for ballet, but after facing discrimination due to her Deafness, she pivoted to a successful career in circus performance and later puppetry, which embraced her Deafness and signing skills. Her work in performance art led her to write and illustrate the Awards-winning art-journal book, Future Girl, which explores Deaf identity and environmental issues. She has now moved into music, creating an app that makes music accessible and writing music designed with Deaf and hard of hearing audiences in mind. Although not sure about the major milestones in disability arts history in Australia, she considers her art to be both political and personal, often tackling issues related to her identity as a Deaf person and the aesthetics of disability equipment. While Asphyxia identifies as a Deaf artist, above all, she sees herself as an artist whose work appeals to the mainstream while celebrating Deafness and diversity.
• Josephine Edwards
• John Dally
• Helen Martineau
• Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC
• Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
• Bernice McPherson
• Barb Champion
• Barbara Champion
• "Tutti Arts - Website - Strategic Plan 2023-2026 captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Annual Reports 2023-2026, captured 2023 - reads, in part "Established in 1997, Tutti Arts is South Australia’s only multi-arts organisation where learning disabled, and neurodiverse artists create visual art, theatre, music, screen, dance and experiment with art and technology. Tutti Arts has grown, changed, rearranged, and developed over time. Tutti now works with more than 200 learning disabled and neurodiverse artists, with over 340 artist engagements every week across 3 Creative Hubs (Brighton, Port Adelaide, and the Barossa), and online. Tutti is the home for renowned disability-led collectives The Sisters of Invention, Company AT and Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film & Media Festival and has supported the career paths of many disabled artists. The Tutti Arts Centre was opened in Brighton 2020. In 2022 Tutti opened a new Regional Hub in Nuriootpa."
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter July 1992”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter July 1992 - Caloola Winter Solstice Festival, establishment of Arts Access Trust, Arts Access staff changes, Senior Citizens' exhibition “Hidden Treasures”, new program - Werribee Youth Arts, DADAA national body update, P-art-ICIPATE 1992, “Stormy Weather” touring art exhibition pieces purchased for international collection, Touch, hear, see - Blind, visually impaired and sighted people can touch, hear or view, six classical European paintings, integrated band Big Bag's new CD, “Dolly”, Community Arts Network new location, resource centre update, membership.
• "Arts Access Victoria - History, captured 2011"
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2011"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Report 2011 - Artistic Director/CEO Report, history, program, key statistics for the year
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Card 2014"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch' 2014 Promotional Card
• "Tutti Arts - Sit Down Shut Up & Watch - Promotional Poster 2022"
  Tutti Arts - 'Sit Down Shut Up & Watch 2022 Promotional Poster
• Andrew Downing
• Professor Andrew Downing
• "Interview with Jeremy Smith"
  Jeremy Smith is a Senior Producer in Western Australia at Performing Lines, has a long career across community, experimental and performing arts, is a disability advocate and previously worked in Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia) as Director – Community Arts and Experimental Arts. Interview Summary Jeremy Smith has vast experience in the arts including working as a director with Australia Council (Creative Australia). Jeremy is currently an arts worker in the performing arts sector. While Jeremy lives with Achondroplasia, he has not always identified as disabled however a transformative project for the 2016 Perth Festival led him to embrace his identity as a disabled person with pride recognising the complexities surrounding personal identification with disability. Jeremy talks about artists and organisations he finds inspirational who are leading change in the disability arts sector and his motivation to also advocate for inclusion and the evolution of public perception of disability arts work.
• Julianne Kuhlmann
• Chris Finnen
• "Access Arts Projects 2011-2013"
  Access Arts Projects, captured 2013, including Wataboshi Music Festival, Access Arts Professional Development Seminar, Brisbane Outsider Artists (BOA) Exhibitions, Polyphonic – Many Voices Many Styles, Community Showcase 2011, The Truth - Pete Vance Quintet, Access Arts Soundscape Project, Indigenous Projects, Creative Recovery- FNQ Friends of Access Arts Annual Event.
• Nerrida Weller
• "Mary Hutchison (2005) Making the Journey: Arts & Disability in Australia. Sydney: Arts Access Australia."
  Reads, in part "A collection of inspiring examples of how to include people with disabilities in the arts, as participants, creators and organisers"