Welcome to University of Atypical for Arts and Disability
- We support and promote work by d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists in Northern Ireland and beyond.
- We are led by disabled people.
- Our Atypical Gallery delivers a year-round programme of exhibitions.
- Our annual Bounce Arts Festival showcases innovative and powerful work by d/Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent artists across multiple art forms.
- Our accessible Ledger Studio is available for you to hire.
- We run the Arts and Disability Access Awards, a support and accreditation scheme in accessibility best practice for arts organisations.
- You can get involved in our volunteer programmes, artist support programmes, training programmes, and employment opportunities.
Foclóir Faoi Mhíchumas
Disability Dictionary
Fócloir Faoi Mhíchumas (Disability Dictionary) is a digital resource and reflection created through our workshops in Belfast and Dublin exploring the Irish language and disability.
Is acmhainn dhigiteach agus machnamh é Fóclóir Faoi Mhíchumas (Disability Dictionary) a cruthaíodh trí ár gceardlanna i mBéal Feirste agus i mBaile Átha Cliath, ag fiosrú na Gaeilge agus an mhíchumais.
Events at University of Atypical
Anna Vidamour – ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter)
ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter) is an exhibition combining installation, painting and photography in search for the feminine parts of our psyche which we all hold buried amongst our consciousness.
Intangible Bodies – Paul Moore
Intangible Bodies presents a projection mapped audio-visual installation, that treats the gallery as an interface, where perception, attention, and internal sensation are made spatial and shareable. The work is encountered through movement and proximity, part screen, part stage, part signal field.
Fócloir Faoi Mhíchumas (A Dictionary of Disability) Workshop
Is ceardlann ealaíon chruthaitheach é Fócloir Faoi Mhíchumas (Disability Dictionary) a dhéanann iniúchadh ar an nGaeilge agus ar mhíchumas. Do scríbhneoirí, do lucht déanta amharclannaíochta, d’fheachtasaithe agus do fhoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, is deis spreagúil í seo gné den Ghaeilge a fhiosrú ar bhealach nuálach. Tugann na healaíontóirí faoi mhíchumas Soso Ní Cheallaigh agus Billí Mills cuireadh duit spraoi a bhaint as téarmaí míchumais sa Ghaeilge trí chomhrá, fuaim, gluaiseacht agus scíth. Cuireann an cheardlann seo an cheist: cad a tharlaíonn nuair
twixt – group exhibition
‘twixt takes its name from the notion of being in between, at an interval and interweaving. Recipients of our d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund grant programme have used the funding to deliver new pathways towards their own goals, some artists pursuing experimental directions or new ambitions – each at their own stage of development and discovery between concept and realisation.
‘twixt showcases the work of some of our twenty d/Deaf and Disabled Artists Support Fund 2025 (DDASF) awardees, including
