Artist's Resource Pack

Disabled artists often complain that critics ignore or misunderstand their work. The solution? We need more disabled people working as critics and journalists to ensure the work is properly understood and discussed. A number of disabled people in the arts write for magazines, websites and other media. It can help you have your say, get your name known and (in some cases) get you paid!

In the past, Shape ran a course called Critic's Choice – an introduction to arts journalism for disabled and deaf people. Although this course is not running at the moment, Shape are always keen to hear from disabled people who want to write an article for the e-newsletter. To find out more, email info@shapearts.org.uk

You can also try contacting some of the disability or the mainstream media (press, television, radio, web) to see what they need and how you could get involved. The BBC, for example, runs traineeships for disabled people wanting to get into media, and Ouch, the BBC’s website for disabled people, is always looking for new writing talent.

To find out more about the BBC traineeships, and other courses run by the BBC follow this link. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and to the BBC’s site on training and development (www.bbctraining.com).

To find out more about Ouch, follow this link. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and to the Ouch site (www.bbc.co.uk/ouch).