Rights Cuts Action: The creativity of disabled resistance - Private View
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Rights Cuts Action: The creativity of disabled resistance - Private View

By Shape Arts

Join us for the opening of the 2025 Shape Open exhibition, Rights Cuts Action: the creativity of disabled resistance.

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Location

HP13 6NE

The Engine Shed Station Approach, Crendon Street High Wycombe HP13 6NE United Kingdom

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Highlights

  • 3 hours
  • UNDER 18 WITH PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN
  • In person
  • Paid venue parking
  • Doors at 6:00 PM

About this event

Arts • Fine Art

We invite you to join us for the private view of Rights Cuts Action at the Engine Shed in High Wycombe on Friday 3 October, 6 - 9pm BST!

Save the date and book your place by booking a free ticket.


Accessibility and what to expect at the Engine Shed:

The exhibition will be audio described and all information about the artworks will be available in audio and BSL. A Braille guide will be available on-site, as well as an Easy Read guide to the show.

The venue is step-free and there are accessible toilets on site. There is also a quiet area available.

There will be a bar and light refreshments during the event. Please include any dietary requirements we should be aware of in your booking.

The nearest transport link is High Wycombe train station, less than a minute away. The venue is across the road from High Wycombe station entrance and there are accessible facilities within the station if you arrive early.

The station is on main trainlines running from Birmingham, Oxford and London Marylebone.


If you have any questions about accessibility at the exhibition, please get in touch.


About the exhibition:

The Shape Open is back for its twelfth consecutive year with Rights Cuts Action: the creativity of disabled resistance, placing the work of contemporary artists in conversation with archival photography from Keith Armstrong, disabled activist, artist, and writer. The exhibition is set against a backdrop of ongoing cuts to benefits and vital support systems and the continual fight to protect disability rights.

Exhibiting artists: Emma Bentley Fox, Anna Berry, Elora Kadir, Fae Kilburn, Vince Laws, Zoe Milner, Guy Morris, Déa Neile-Hopton, Kristin Rawcliffe, Ivan Riches, Benedict Robinson, and Kim Waine-Thomas.

Rights Cuts Action will be open to the public at the Engine Shed, High Wycombe from 6 October - 5 November 2025.

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Shape Arts

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Oct 3 · 6:00 PM GMT+1