Project Art Works has been developing groundbreaking visual arts projects for individuals with profound neurological impairments since 1997. It is an artist led charitable company, based in Hastings, East Sussex. The young people and adults with whom we collaborate have multiple impairments and require support in all areas of their lives.
Our work sits within three programme strands: Art & Social Policy; Art & Collaboration and Research & Dissemination. We develop projects that support individuals with complex needs to explore media and their own creativity on their own terms. Our pioneering approach to art, to disability and to working in partnership with policy makers, organizations and individuals involved in the lives of people with complex needs is unrivalled in the UK.
Our fundamental premise is that good art can, through its process and/or its final form, reflect and articulate ideas that transcend difference and reach people. The common, uniting thread that runs through all of our projects is our commitment to achieving the highest artistic, conceptual and aesthetic standards, with individuals experiencing severe neurological impairments.
We establish the conditions for meaningful collaboration through non-hierarchical, deep and open connection between people using film, paint, construction, drawing, print, digital media and environments of light and sound as a means of shared, creative investigation.
Through considered and constantly evolving approaches to collaboration, a fine balance is maintained between the realities of people's lives and needs and the conditions in which art of exceptional rigour can be made and seen by others.
