The Creative Case is a re-imagining of Arts Council England’s approach to diversity and equality, setting out how these areas can and should enrich the arts for artists, audiences and our wider society. It puts the creativity of artists first and looks at how they have inspired and directly created change and momentum around them.

Its no surprise that many of our artists feature within the articulation of the creative case for disability.In fact, so many are we’re going to feed you some links over the next week or so so you can find out more. So to start with:

Simon Mckeown is featured in essays on Digitising Disability  and We Are Astonishing:

Simon’s work perfectly balances his interest, knowledge and experience of disability and in particular our view of ‘normality’ and ‘difference’, and his creative use of the digital world. Motion Disabled takes the bodies – the biological pathologies – of people who are physically different and explores these digitality using motion capture technology, a technique more commonly associated with feature films and computer games, along with 3D animation to create a kinetic connection with the human form – beautiful everyday movements highlighting all the intricacies and uniqueness of each person’s physicality.

And Claire Cunningham is also in We Are Astonishing, along with Janice Parker.

[Janice Parker describes one focus of her creative and choreographic practice as being the examination of the creative languages and aesthetic potentials that come from different bodies dancing... Her most recent work, Private Dancer ... is astounding on many levels, including the freedom it offers to both performer and audience to both observe and perform, to both ‘be’ and to ‘behold’. It is this that forces the commonality, the humanity to surface and perhaps this is the central thread that runs through all this work, the thread that entices others to become part of the journey?

So plenty to read there.

Why not dive in to some of the links and find out more about how these artists are not only creating their own work, but transforming the sector in which they create and paving the way for the future?