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      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
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      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
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      • Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art
      • Thresholds
      • The Incluseum
      • Who Gets To Curate Exhibitions?
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown Blog
    • 2019
      • Book Chapter in Museum Activism
    • 2018
      • Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem
      • PhD Thesis
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      • LMJU Degree Show 2017
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      • 11 Million Reasons to Dance
      • Bad Scouse
      • Fetishism or Empowerment? Outside In Reviewed
      • Art, Disability & Collaboration: A Discussion
      • From Studio to Biennale
      • Unfold: Ryoichi Kurokawa Reviewed
    • 2015
      • Introducing About Time, Leeds
      • Resource at Bluecoat
      • Group Therapy at FACT
      • At the Edinburgh Fringe
      • What's it Worth? The Value of the CDA
      • It's Art For The People, By The People
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      • Zines: Independent Newspaper Article
      • Hidden Histories: There to Here Reviewed
      • DaDaFest: Working Lives
      • The Transformation of DaDaFest
      • Art of the Lived Experiment Reviewed
      • Unsung Hero. Liverpool's Most Radica Son
      • Disobedient Objects at the V&A
      • Al Noor Fragile Vision
      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
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      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
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    • Six Speak (2020)
    • Recipe for a Good Life (2019)
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Art Brut World Forum
​Disabled People's Art and Culture Festival
Tokyo 2020 & Japan Cultural Expo [2020]
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​In February 2020 I was invited to participate in Japan's Art Brut World Forum during the Disabled People's Art and Culture Festival which took place as part of the Tokyo 2020 celebrations. Practitioners and experts working on the promotion of art and culture led by disabled people from around the world were invited to speak on each theme. Along with three other panellists, I was invited to speak on the theme of public policy related to the arts and culture of disabled people. Here, I discussed my research on inclusive curating as a route to ensure disabled people are represented as cultural leaders. The panellists also included Martine Lusardy (Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Saint-Pierre, Paris), Yoshiyuki Oshita (Researcher of Cultural Policy, Director of Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art) and Jean-Marc Ayrault (Former Prime Minister of France, Honorary Mayor of Nantes).

​In addition to presenting at the world forum conference, I also had the opportunity to visit some of the key disability art sites in the region of Shiga. This included a visit to Shigaraki Seinenryo, a supported ceramics studio where artists live in a residential care setting.  Here, I had the pleasure to meet some fantastic artists and see a different way learning disabled artists are supported. I also was able to visit the brilliant art brut artist Shinichi Sawada. His studio is set in picturesque landscape of Kusatsu in the mountains; an unforgettable experience.

View a report of a visit to Shigaraki here.
​© Jade French 2022
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Research
    • Profile
    • Irregular Art Schools
  • Publications
    • Easy Read
    • 2020
      • Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art
      • Thresholds
      • The Incluseum
      • Who Gets To Curate Exhibitions?
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown Blog
    • 2019
      • Book Chapter in Museum Activism
    • 2018
      • Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem
      • PhD Thesis
    • 2017
      • LMJU Degree Show 2017
    • 2016
      • 11 Million Reasons to Dance
      • Bad Scouse
      • Fetishism or Empowerment? Outside In Reviewed
      • Art, Disability & Collaboration: A Discussion
      • From Studio to Biennale
      • Unfold: Ryoichi Kurokawa Reviewed
    • 2015
      • Introducing About Time, Leeds
      • Resource at Bluecoat
      • Group Therapy at FACT
      • At the Edinburgh Fringe
      • What's it Worth? The Value of the CDA
      • It's Art For The People, By The People
    • 2014
      • Zines: Independent Newspaper Article
      • Hidden Histories: There to Here Reviewed
      • DaDaFest: Working Lives
      • The Transformation of DaDaFest
      • Art of the Lived Experiment Reviewed
      • Unsung Hero. Liverpool's Most Radica Son
      • Disobedient Objects at the V&A
      • Al Noor Fragile Vision
      • Introducing Greenhorn Short Film Festival
    • 2010
      • Riot Grrrl & I
    • Zines
      • #Quarazine. Self-advocates in Lockdown (2020)
      • How One Should Live (2019)
      • Engaging Disabled Audiences (2017): A (Remix) Zine
      • Art Gym: How It Feels When I'm Included (2016)
      • Diagrammatic Thinking: A Practice-Led Research Zine (2015)
  • Projects
    • Space Sapling (2020)
    • Positive You (2013-)
    • Facts, Not Fear (2018)
    • Hull City of Culture (2018)
    • The Hideout (2018)
    • My York Central (2018)
  • Residencies
    • Metal (2020)
    • Japan Art Brut World Forum (2020)
    • International Curator's Residency (2018)
    • São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
    • Slowly10 (2017)
  • Exhibitions
    • Six Speak (2020)
    • Recipe for a Good Life (2019)
    • 21 Stories, 21 Chromosomes (2019)
    • Potted History (2018)
    • Auto Agents (2016)
    • Ways of Knowing (2015)
    • The Dugout Festival (2013)
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