It consists of an online collection and a facility at the High Wycombe campus of Buckinghamshire New University, and features over 3500 objects.
[1] The project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and is led by Shape Arts, with David Hevey as the project's creative director, and founded by Tony Heaton.
[2] It contains a range of artwork, including painting, sculpture, textiles and more,[3] much of which is protest art campaigning about the treatment of disabled individuals at the time.
[5] In 2020 Shape Arts received funding to create the National Disability Movement Archive and Collection (NDMAC) [6] along similar lines, focusing on the British Disability Rights Movement.
Artists and activists of the Disability Arts Movement[7] include: