Williamson Art Gallery is proud to be a participating venue in DaDaFest 2025.
Zoe Partington has created light sculptures featuring slogans which have relevance to disability activism and issues disabled people experience. The work conveys stories, messages and insights into disabled people’s struggles in a world in where society still excludes us from the mainstream. Disabled people still exist ‘on the edges’ and have to fight for equity. These neon signs convey a snapshot of disability history in a simple format with a powerful message.
Her piece ‘Love Not Pity’ will be exhibited in Gallery 4, alongside our current exhibition Philip Wilson Steer: In Conversation. Zoe’s work is based upon the slogans of the British disability movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sitting within an exhibition of nude figures which adhere to conventional beauty standards, the piece makes us question attitudes towards and depictions of disabled people, and charges the slogan with contemporary meaning.
Further pieces from the Painting In Light series will be based in other venues around the Liverpool City Region including The Bluecoat, The Palm House in Sefton Park, Liverpool Lime Street Station, Shakespeare North, Citizens Advice Wavertree and more.
More information about DaDaFest 2025 and Zoe Partington’s work can be found on DaDaFest’s website.
Access: This exhibition can be viewed in person at the venues taking part and will be available to view online (with ALT Text descriptions and supporting audio information). Further access and venue info will be linked here soon.
About DDFI40:
DaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to celebrate DaDa’s 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.
DDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captures all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage, to overt injustice and activism, DDFI40 will explore disability rights, disability arts, access, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an explosion of creativity.
Wednesday 5th – Saturday 29th March 2025
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