Visit the 2025 Shape Open exhibition: Rights Cuts Action!
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.
Where and when?
Rights Cuts Action will be open to the public at the Engine Shed, Station Approach, Crendon Street, High Wycombe, HP13 6NE, from 6 October – 5 November 2025.
Accessibility
The venue is step-free and there are accessible toilets on site. The nearest transport link is High Wycombe train station, less than a minute away.
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.
If you have any questions about accessibility at the exhibition, please get in touch.
For more info see Rights Cuts Action
The Emergent project
Emergent is a project aimed at addressing and tackling the entrenched marginalisation and under-representation of disabled people in the arts sector and wider society. The main focus is creatives at an early stage in their career (including re-emerging artists) who need support in order to continue.
For more info see Emergent 2025
The Engine Shed links to somewhere in Bristol – I can’t find one in High Wycombe.