Tanya Raabe
Visual Artist
Close up detail of the eyes from an oil painting of Zoe Partington – Solinger by Tanya Raabe.
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Who'S WhO – Defining Faces of an Arts Movement
 
The Artists:
 
About Who'S WhO

Who'S WhO is a collection of portraits created by Tanya Raabe Visual Artist. The portraits challenge the notion of portraiture using disability aesthetics and visual language. The portraits are of established and new emerging disabled artists who have and continue to pioneer disability arts and culture in a society that uses perfection, beauty, and normality as a ‘must have'.

Each artist has been chosen because of their influence in shaping disability art as an arts movement in its own right and have in some way shaped the art work of leading disabled artist Tanya Raabe.

Faces - Oil Paintings

Each oil painting is a close up of the artists face exploring their identity and my personal and emotional response to the relationship that I have with these artists as pioneers of the Disability Arts Movement. I have used colour, shape and form to portray their personality, their character and human features in an expressive way.

Studio Talks - Multimedia Portraits

Each Multi Media Portrait combines the production and working processes of the paintings and drawings in transition with sound, vision and text, hearing each artist talking about their history of art and their working processes. Studio Talks contextualises the subjects juxtaposing their position in a challenging society exploring disability art and culture.

 

Dr Paul Darke

Artist/Writer/Cultural Critic. Paul is recognised for his frankness about the state of disability arts and for his historical exploration of disability representation in film. Paul has been developing his own artwork using the internet since 2000. www.outside-centre.com "Its guerrilla art from a disability art perspective."

Photograph of Dr Paul Darke and two details from the oil portrait of him.
Mat Fraser

Actor/Performance Artist/Singer/Songwriter/Playwright. Mat is recognised as an actor in the mainstream and for being an ambassador of the representation of disabled people in the media while causing controversial disability arts debate within disability culture, and for being born disabled but not ‘coming out' as a disabled person until he was in his 30's. www.matfraser.co.uk

Photograph of Mat fraser and two details from the oil portrait of him.

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Colin Hambrook

Painter/Disability Arts Writer . Colin is recognised for his paintings about his experience as a disabled man and mental health system survivor. His paintings are part of the NDACA National Disability Arts Collection and Archive, at Holton Lee. Colin is presently the artistic director of www.disabilityarts.org a contemporary cyber space keeping alive and developing disability arts into the 21st century.

Photograph of colin Hambrook and two details from the oil portrait of him.
Tony Heaton
Sculptor/pioneer of NDACA, National Disability Arts Collection and Archive at Holton Lee.Tony is recognised for being a Sculptor in his own right and for his work at Holton Lee, setting up Faith House art gallery, accessible studio spaces, NDACA and campaigning for disability art to be recognized as an arts movement in its own right.
Photograph of Tony Heaton and two details from the oil portrait of him.
Nikki Hewish
Deaf Artist – Installation Artist. Nikki is an emerging deaf artist in the early stages of her career exploring her ideas about the world around her using sculptural material to create installations.
Photograph of Nikki Hewish and two details from the oil portrait of her.

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David King
3D Fantasy Digital Artist. David has a background in science and delves into the realm of 3D computer graphics utilizing the useful metamorphosis of mathematics to produce imagery. "My work intends to deliver the potency of using digital techniques to produce art by using structure and shape to employ techniques of object and anatomical construction"
Photograph of David King and two details from the oil portrait of him.

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Julie McNamara

Singer/Songwriter/Playwright/Raconteur/Activist. Julie is recognized for her amazing stories about her experiences as a disabled woman/mental health system survivor that she has interpreted into performance/plays/songs that have given others the will to live, and for being ‘cured' of her disabilities by the ‘medical profession'. www.juliemc.com

Photograph of Julie McNamara and two details from the oil portrait of her.

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Zoe Partington – Sollinger
Installation Artist/Disability Arts Consultant Zoe is recognized for her work in equality training and is emerging as a disabled artist in her own right creating conceptual installations based on her experiences as a disabled woman in a disabling world.
Photograph of Zoe Partington – Solinger and two details from the oil portrait of her.
Allan Sutherland
Writer/Playwright/Performance poet. Allan is recognized for his "love of words", his radio play 'Inmates', and as the author of ‘Disabled We Stand' a book exploring disability culture and identity that has been a 'light bulb' for people to identify them selves as disabled people and for The Edward Lear Foundation an established Disability Arts think-tank on the internet. www.learfoundation.org.uk
Photograph of Allan Sutherland and two details from the oil portrait of him.
Joy Tudor
Textile/Digital Artist: Joy brings her "love of textiles" in to the world of digital art combining textures and colour to create digital designs influenced by the world around her.
Photograph of Joy Tudor and two details from the oil portrait of her.
 
Who'S WhO has been funded by Arts Council England.
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