“Rights Cut Action” Shape Open 2025

“Rights Cut Action” Shape Open

I'm delighted to announce that I'm exhibiting five of my 'Power of Protest and Print' panels at this years Shape Open exhibition, below is a close up of a few...

Rights Cuts Action: the creativity of disabled resistance. The exhibition will be open from 6th October - 5th November 2025, at the Brunel Engine Shed, High Wycombe.

Rights Cuts Action places the work of contemporary artists in conversation with archival photography from Keith Armstrong, disabled activist, artist, and writer. The exhibition is set against a backdrop of ongoing cuts to benefits and vital support systems and the continual fight to protect disability rights.

Exhibiting artists: @emmabfox @weeannabee @elrkdr, @faekilburn, Vince Laws, @zoevisualart @the_guy_morris_project @dea.styx_and_stone.willow @kristinrawcliffe @ivan360.go @benedictrobinsonart and @kwainethomas

Jeff Rowlings, Head of Programme, Shape Arts, said: "It's 2025, and with each new cut disabled people face, their rights are further undermined and diminished, along with their standards of living. In the case of Access to Work, even the right to work and earn is being severed, shuttered down.

This was as true of the 1980s and 90s as it is today, when a new government is stripping away the dignity and welfare of the most marginalised of communities.

Yet across the country disabled people are refusing to stand down and yield these hard won rights, many of them achieved in the recent past, after years of protest and campaigning. In this exhibition, we capture what it is to take action and go to the streets in defence of basic human rights.

As these disabled artists show how through riotous sound and colour, while facing every pressure to shrink and diminish, the disabled community grows larger."