Finding collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people

One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.

Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.

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A FEELING LIKE WEARING A GLOVE (Artwork)

2023

This clothwork representation of a human hand with polyester stuffing was created by co-producer Juliet Eccles for display in the co-curated gallery trail "Nothing Without Us: Experiences of Disability" at the Pitt Rivers Museum, curated by Kyle Lewis Jordan, running from 16th November 2023 - 6th October 2024.This artpiece - alongside "The Kintsugi Heart" and...

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Rights information: Copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

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This clothwork representation of a human hand with polyester stuffing was created by co-producer Juliet Eccles for display in the co-curated gallery trail "Nothing Without Us: Experiences of Disability" at the Pitt Rivers Museum, curated by Kyle Lewis Jordan, running from 16th November 2023 - 6th October 2024.

This artpiece - alongside "The Kintsugi Heart" and "Bent Big Toes" - depicts the embodied experience of Juliet and her brothers Patrick and Christopher, each of whom experienced disablement in their childhoods that was shaped by the medical care they had received.

Community curation: Aged thirteen, Juliet broke her neck during a riding accident that paralyzed her from the neck down. One doctor believed she would need an Iron Lung, but an RAF doctor believed she could make a recovery. After nine months in hospital and a further six at an RAF rehabilitation centre, Juliet made a partial recovery. While left with imbalanced movement and impaired feeling in her hands, Juliet returned to riding and went on to win dressage while representing Riding for the Disabled. - Juliet E, an artist who also happens to be disabled

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The Curating for Change project is running eight Fellowships over 18 months and eight Traineeships over 40 days based across 20 partner museums. Learn more about our Fellows and Trainees here.

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