Becky Beasley
Becky Beasley is an award-winning visual artist, educator and advocate based in Hastings. She has exhibited widely both at a national and international level.
Her practice spans sculpture, installation and photography to explore the ambiguities of human experience focusing on everyday moments of intensity and private revelation. Often working at the limit of language, her work attempts to describe the deeply private experiences of life and otherness.
Sonia Boué
Sonia Boué is an Oxford based Anglo-Spanish neurodivergent artist. Her practice includes eclectic and also hyper-focused research, collage and photomontage, writing, advocacy, activism, guest lecturing, project work and mentoring. Recent publications include Neurophotoherapy: Playfully Unmasking with Photography and Collage (2023).
Pierce Starre
Pierce Starre is an artist based in Liverpool whose multidisciplinary practice draws from the multifaceted intersections of their cultural experience as a queer, working-class, neurodivergent individual raised by Deaf parents who communicate using British Sign Language. Their practice seeks to initiate opportunities to examine and subvert the prevailing heteronormative and neuronormative societal narratives. Through live performance, objects, text, still and moving images, their work creates immersive experiences that foster connection, reflection, discussion, and transformative possibilities.
Claire Penketh
Claire Penketh is Professor of Disability Studies & Art Education and Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education and author of A History of Disability and Art Education. She has published widely on the topic of disability studies and art education. She is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design Education (NSEAD) and chair of their special interest group on Anti-ableist Pedagogy.
