Studios.

Art begins with artists.

We connect artists from supported studios with their international peers, arts professionals, and diverse audiences. Discover artists and international studios, starting with the selection below. To-date we have included Australia and the UK only, since the project team are based in these countries.

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Australian Studios.

ArtGusto is Geelong’s leading supported art studio working with local artists with intellectual disabilities. They support a range of emerging and mid-career artists who live with disabilities and the challenges this brings to their lives every day. Image: Christian Den Besten

Art from the Margins empowers artists living with mental health issues, physical and intellectual disabilities, experiencing homelessness and social isolation. Brisbane based, they create pathways to enrichment, personal and professional growth through creative practice. Image: Troy Cowley

Arts Project Australia is an established social enterprise based in Melbourne. They are a leading studio and gallery that supports artists with intellectual disabilities, promoting their work and advocating for their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Image: Michael Camakaris

Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists is the first studio in Australia to provide an intersection between supported studios and Aboriginal Art Centres. Bindi enables Aboriginal artists living with a disability to develop their art careers and gain recognition for their artistic practice. Image: Adrian Robertson

DADAA is the major art and health organisation based in Western Australia that creates access to arts and culture for people with a disability and mental illness. They support artists at three arts and community centres in Fremantle, Midland, and Lancelin. Image: Desmond Woodley

Footscray Community Arts is an arts precinct in Melbourne. Through their ArtLife program, artists with disability lead collaborative contemporary art projects by collaborating with professional artists in a year-long program including workshops, residencies and mentorship. Image: Phillip Parany

Studio A is a leading supported studio based in Sydney. They tackle barriers that artists living with intellectual disabilities face in accessing universal education, professional development pathways, and opportunities needed to be successful and renowned visual artists. Image: Emily Crockford

The Art Factory is a supportive and nurturing environment where each artist can be themselves and have autonomy. They provide artists with support, guidance, mentoring, networks and career paths to assist in further establishing and maintaining a contemporary art practice. Image: Lorraine O'Hara

Tutti Arts, in Adelaide, is a multi-arts hub for artists with a disability and an incubator for disability-led collectives. Tutti artists create inclusive, extraordinary art in visual arts, performing arts, music, film, and new media for a growing local and international audience. Image: Jessica Miller

UK Studios.

ActionSpace is London’s leading development agency for artists with learning disabilities. They support, advocate and promote diversity within the contemporary visual arts sector, enabling artists with learning disabilities to have professional careers in the arts. Image: Patrick Moses

Artbox London is a charity that, alongside art workshops, organises trips to galleries and exhibitions for people with learning disabilities and autism. They aim to improve the wellbeing and inclusion of individuals, whilst increasing their visibility and profile in the wider art world. Image detail: Hisba Brimah

Artists First is a group of learning disabled artists from Bristol, who believe that as a group, they can do powerful work together and make change. For over 30 years they have created art together, sharing it through exhibitions, workshops and talks both regionally and nationally. Image: Carol Chilcott

Barrington Farm is a centre for learning disabled adults on a farm in North Norfolk. An art barn specialises in enabling people of all abilities to express themselves through art, explore emotive responses to materials and find their individual voices. Image: Roy Collinson

Blue Room is the Bluecoat’s long-running inclusive arts project. Blue Room, based in Liverpool, supports learning disabled and neurodivergent artists to engage with contemporary arts and heritage whilst developing their own creative practice. Image: Tess Gilmartin

Garvald Edinburgh provides creative and craft workshops for adults with learning disabilities and autism across five sites in Edinburgh. The organisation wants to ensure that learning-disabled artists become an integral part of the creative landscape. Image: James Alison

Hart Club is a community arts organisation that champions neurodiversity within the Arts. Working as an alternative gallery and online platform, Hart Club commissions original artwork and content that focuses on collaboration and celebrating the intersection of ideas and differences in artistic approaches and ways of thinking. Image detail: Derek

Project Ability supports people with learning disabilities and people with lived experience of mental ill health, to develop their creativity, engage with contemporary visual art and pursue artistic excellence. They have an onsite Gallery in Glasgow, with an international reputation. Image: Cameron Morgan

Project Art Works is a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists. Their programmes evolve through creative practice and radiate out to awareness raising in the cultural and care sectors, promoting more diverse representation in programming and relevancy for audiences. Image detail: Siddharth Gudiyar

Submit to Love Studios, part of Headway East London, is home to a group of artists living with a brain injury who work collectively in an open studio environment, empowering one another. Their mission is “discovery through art” – be that discovering new culture, new connections or new identities. Image detail: Tirzah Mileham

Venture Arts is a charity in Manchester whose vision is a world where people with learning disabilities are empowered, included and valued in the arts, culture and society. They want to shape a new cultural landscape where people with learning disabilities reach their potential as artists, curators and advocates. Image detail: Terry Williams