Creative Lives

Welcome to Shape’s case studies of Creative Lives.

Here you will find inspiration and information. Have you ever wondered how deaf and disabled people working in the arts got to where they are now? How they managed to access training and support? Whether they prefer working with deaf or disabled people or non-disabled people.

You can look through the case studies in four ways :


pick a person and read what they had to say (to go to the list of people and the artforms they use, click the button above)

pick one of the questions we asked that interests you and read through all the responses to that question (to go to the questions, click the link above)

put in a key word and see if anyone mentioned it (to enter a keyword, use the search facility at the top of each page)

There are lots of other case studies of disabled people on the web – if you want links to some of the others we have found, or make a link to your own experiences, click the link above.