Without Hands: The Art of Sarah Biffin
Language: English
Published by Paul Holberton Publishing, 2022
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Without Hands: The Art of Sarah Biffin
- Author
- Rutherford, E; Smith, E (eds)
- Publisher
- Paul Holberton Publishing
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1913645363
- ISBN 13
- 9781913645366
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Sarah Biffin (1784–1850) came from humble origins yet rose to fame in the 19thcentury as an exceptionally talented miniaturist. As a working-class, disabled female artist, her artworks – many proudly signed “without hands” – are a testament to her talent and life-long determination. Despite her prolific artistic output, Biffin’s life and work has been largely overlooked by art historians – until now.
Sarah Biffin was born with the condition ‘phocomelia’, described on her baptism record as ‘born without arms and legs’. She spent her childhood in her family home where she learnt to sew and write. Biffin was later contracted to Mr Dukes, who ran a travelling sideshow, where Biffin would write and paint in front of an audience. The crowds who turned up left with a sample of her writing included in the cost of their ticket.
In her mid-twenties she began formal tuition with a miniature painter, William Marshall Craig, and from 1816 she set herself up as an independent artist. Biffin travelled extensively, exhibiting her artwork and taking commissions all over the country, before finally settling in Liverpool. Throughout her long and successful career, she took commissions from nobility and royalty, and recorded her own likeness across the years through exquisitely detailed self-portraits.
Working closely with the project’s advisor – artist Alison Lapper MBE (born with the same condition as Sarah Biffin 180 years later) – and consultant and contributor – Professor Essaka Joshua (specialist in Disability Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana) – this publication and exhibition seek to celebrate Biffin as a disabled artist who challenged contemporary attitudes to disability. It is fully illustrated and includes original research.
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About the Author
Ellie Smith is a Researcher at Philip Mould & Company, London.
Professor Essaka Joshua is a specialist in Disability Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Alison Lapper is an artist, television presenter, speaker and Gig-Arts Charity patron, Brighton.
Elle Shushan is a specialist, author, lecturer and museum consultant in Philadelphia
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