Disability Arts Online

Florrie is Dolly Sen’s new dog. While Scamp was a performance artist, Florrie is a sculptor. She is a year old rescue dog from Bosnia who was rescued from a cruelty case.

Florrie works primarily in the medium of presence, destruction and unapologetic canine intervention.

Rejecting the conventional tyranny of clay, bronze and stone, she instead employ...

Living in Edinburgh during the ‘world’s largest arts festival’ is very much ‘a game of two halves’. On the one hand the city is a giant theme park, rammed with tourists who don’t understand why walking in front of trams is a bad idea.

Alternatively, play your cards right and you can find yourself on the guest list for a month of glittering social events.

Here is another brilliant example of a story submitted to our Community Contributions call out. In it Ariel Fung describes the House of Krip event vividly as well as the impact of taking part in it on her personally and the wider disability arts movement. The images and link she has provided also really help to bring the memory to life.

I’...

Breathless

I see past, dark nights
Of sweats, shakes and lack of breath
A panic-ed mother

Calling out doctors
Emergency 999
In next to no time

Sloshing through the rain
They arrive cold and wetter
Their iced hands laid on

Wrapped me in blankets
Carry me in chair down the stairs

Trigger Warning: Racism, Violence

I have had a great urge to do some physical art. And of course it is not of pretty flowers. It is political because my existence is political, these are my tears against a tsunami, but I created these works to ease the burden from me, these are my psychic barricades. I feel the bite of the worldly winds, because of my colour, m...