Projects Page
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In my practice, participation is not an add-on: it is the foundation. The Projects included here reflect a vision of art-making where participants are not passive observers, but co-creators — driving the ideas, shaping the process, and sharing ownership of the outcome. By working closely and inclusively with people from neurodivergent communities, I aim to create spaces where different sensory perspectives, modes of thinking and lived experiences are honoured as valid and generative.
These projects draw on the principle that art can be a shared language — a collective conversation in which everyone brings something essential. When neurodivergent artists take the lead, they guide not only what is made, but how it is made: the pace, the materiality, the sensory logic. This approach aligns with what participatory and co-creative art theorists describe as a shift away from hierarchical, artist-as-expert models, toward collaborative, inclusive and socially engaged practices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_art
Through this page I invite you to explore how making together — with respect for difference, sensory variation, and autonomy — allows for new forms of expression and community. It’s not just about producing artworks, it’s about opening space for voices often marginalised by “standard” art practices, and building forms of belonging, agency and visual language rooted in neurodivergent ways of being and thinking.
Additionally you will find links to the British Art Networks’s Disability in British Art Research Group (DIBA) that opens up more considerations on inclusivity within the Arts Sector. DIBA was co-founded by Ashokkumar D Mistry and Trish Wheatley. Another link leads to Araam, a documentary project commissioned by Disability Arts Online (DAO), that represents ND and Disabled Artists and their considerations on rest.
Ashokkumar D Mistry 
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