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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GEORGE GRAHAM, MORNING OF CREATION (Painting: Morning of Creation by Georg Graham)

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Rights information: Copyright: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Description

At age eight, George Graham's hearing was damaged when he was hit by an object thrown at him by another child. Although his partial hearing would impact his life in many ways, including his social confidence, it seems to have been a catalyst that would draw him into the world of art and play a significant role in his later works. George Graham would spend months and sometimes years before he'd even made the smallest pencil design on his paintings, and he wanted to capture the image exactly how he had dreamt it.

Meet our Fellows and Trainees

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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