Artist and academic shining light on disability artwork
A Teesside University academic and artist has been working with German researchers to ensure light is shone on a previously lost collection of disability artwork.Professor of Art, Simon McKeown, from Teesside University’s School of Arts & Creative Industries, has helped to lead a project to unlock a previously lost archive, which shows how disability was interpreted in the past. Coinciding with Disability History Month (14 November to 20 December), the international collaboration, involving researchers in Germany, focuses on the disability-related artworks collected by German