Our lead artist for RAD 2.0 was Fae Kilburn. Fae is a Midlands based artist and arts facilitator, specialising in printmaking with a Masters in Fine Art. Creating disability awareness is an important part of her practice, as is incorporating the voices of other disabled people in her art.
The Power of Protest and Print
Fae created an accessible fabric-covered installation called The Power of Protest and Print. In Summer 2025, Fae ran workshops across the city, creating with participants and chatting about all things DDN. People made heat-transferred artworks onto fabric, and designed their own protest t-shirts, many of which you will have experienced if you joined us at the exhibition in Fae’s “The Hundred Years of Protest” room. From BSL-interpreted t-shirt printing, to Arts & Wellbeing sessions, to quiet sessions, Fae hosted a variety of workshops to meet different access requirements.
In addition to workshops, she did a digitally call-out for experiences, comments, and narrative. People sent emails and voice notes and videos, sharing whatever they wanted to about their experiences of being DDN. Unsurprisingly, a lot of peoples text contributions included moments of anger and frustration at the reality of being a DDN person in an inaccessible world. Fae incorporated the conversations she had and the text she received into her artworks.
In September 2025, in Unit 27 in Queensgate, we hosted an exhibition of all of Fae’s work. The exhibition was called The Power of Protest and Print
In the space were 11 large fabric panels, and a t-shirt protest room made up of 61 sewn t-shirts. All artworks were a mixture of fabric, text, and imagery, each giving an insight into people’s lives, the history of disability activism, fighting for change, and celebrating truth. An additional 40 protest t-shirts formed a trail across the city.
The Power of Protest and Print, combined textile and print for both their historical use and symbolism of protest. The artwork on display explored over a hundred years of disability protest slogans and lived experience, exploring different elements of DDN people’s lives. Some of the work Fae co-created in Peterborough then when on to be exhibited at Shape Arts “Rights, Cuts, Action” exhibition in High Wycombe.
If you want to deep dive and watch our BSL translations or listen to the audio descriptions of the work, click the buttons below.
Huge thanks to Leia Ankers for the photos from launch night too.
