BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10442@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250308T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250331T000000 DTSTAMP:20250227T164025Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/various-venues-ddfi40-painting-i n-light/ SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Various Venues: DDFI40: Painting in Light DESCRIPTION:Zoe Partington is an artist in her own right and created light sculptures featuring slogans which have relevance to disability activism a nd issues disabled people experience. The work conveys stories\, messages and insights into disabled people’s struggles in a world in where societ y still excludes us from the mainstream. Disabled people still exist ‘o n the edges’ and have to fight for equity. These neon signs convey a sn apshot of disability history in a simple format with a powerful message.   \nLook out for these signs\, which will be appearing in venues across t he city region\, including: \n\n\n \;\n\n Williamson Art Gallery\n The Bluecoat Gallery\n Citizens Advice HQ Wavertree\n Sefton Park\, The Palm House\n Eccleston Library\, St Helens\n Shakespeare North\n\nCredi t: Disabled People’s movement\, Barbara Lisicki\, Johnny Crescendo and T ony Heaton \n\nAccess: This exhibition can be viewed in person at the v enues taking part and will be available to view online (with ALT Text descriptions and supporting audio information).  Further access and venu e info will be linked here soon.  \n\nCost: FREE \n\nBooking info: This exhibition will be free to access. Pop to each of the venues listed durin g opening hours to experience them all or visit our online gallery which will be available during the festival.\n\n\nAbout Painting in Light\n\nZoe ’s work is rooted in the transformative time of the British disability m ovement in the late 1980s and early 1990s\, when tens of thousands of disa bled people and allies campaigned for civil rights. The neon slogans are d irect references to the campaign\, and their vivid illumination reflects b oth the shock and joy of a people breaking out of charitable victimhood an d passivity. Bright and defiant\, they are a reminder of the importance of remembering the slogans and phrases that have cohered disabled people.\n\ nZoe is a Disabled Artists who has spent 30 years campaigning for disabili ty rights after meeting Barbara Lisicki and working alongside her from the late 90’s. This exhibition is a joint dialogue between 2 disabled artis ts and professionals who have a lifetime of experience of living in a non- disabled world. Zoe has a chronic condition and is partially blind. She ha s a wicked sense of humour and is quite diverse in her approach to disabil ty arts. She mentors and trains cultural organisations and mentors disable d artists.\n\nThis exhibition celebrates the achievements and diversity of disability arts while acknowledging the hard-won battles that have starte d changes in the inclusive arts sector of today.\n\nDisability Arts crea tes work that counteracts misunderstandings\, misconceptions\, stereotypes and negative narratives surrounding the lives of disabled people. Its str ength is that it is created by disabled and Deaf people\, artists and crea tives.\n\n“Disabled people have forged a group identity. We share a comm on history of oppression and a common bond of resilience. We generate art\ , music\, literature\, and other expressions of our lives and our culture\ , infused from our experience of disability. Most importantly\, we are p roud of ourselves as people with disabilities. We claim our disabilities w ith pride as part of our identity. We are who we are: we are people with d isabilities.”\n\n-Steve Brown.\n\nAbout Zoe Partington\n\nCurating a lif e less ordinary\,using creative &\; contemporary techniques to challen ge the distressed edge of life. Zoe shares a passion for equality\,  particularly in the creative industries and understands the importance of establishing a clear framework\, with a twist of creativity.  A very experienced leader and consultant in her specialist field of c ultural inclusion and accessible approaches.  \n\nA contemporary v isual artist who uses her experience of being partially blind and living with a chronic condition for over 50 years to create a unique perspecti ve\, with a historical and contemporary research led practice in her ar t. She develops installations\, and viscerally powerfulaudio visual and tactile representations of Disabled people’s journeys and experience s through life\, landscapes and built environments.Zoe has won several  awards and scholarships. She showed ‘Domestic Landscapes’ 2022 i n Madrid and across the UK funded by ONCE in Spain and Arts Council Englan d. ‘Decoding Difference’ was shown at the London Festival of Design  Biennial in June 2023 at Somerset House with international artists supp orted by Kings College. Recently she has been awarded the Henry Moore re search fellowship 2023.  \n\nAn International conceptual artist speciali sing in Disability Art practice through 3-D dimensional and installation artworks.  She is experienced at working with Curators and gallery tea ms.  \n\n‘Painting with Light’is a series of neon lights using disa bility rights slogans and Zoe’s own insights to her own language around dispelling stereotypes. @tightcontrol was a reaction to a meeting in an NH S setting between Zoe and medical professionals who were frustrating her w ith their oppressive us of medical terms. In relation\, the term @tightco ntrol is used to reiterate the complexity of Zoe’s glucose levels and h ow disabled people are controlled by others. It is twofold in its irony and jest with how disabled people are controlled by others.  \n\nA Fello w of the RSA  \n\n@tightcontrol | zoe.partington@gmail.com | zoepart ington.co.uk \nAbout DDFI40:\nDaDaFest International returns 8th-31st Mar ch 2025 to celebrate DaDa's 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming w ith ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.\nDDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artis ts that captures all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet fru strations and righteous rage\, to overt injustice and activism\, DDFI40 wi ll explore disability rights\, disability arts\, access\, ableism and ‘R age’ in an explosion of creativity. 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