Dr Janet Price is a disabled queer feminist, based in Liverpool, UK with links to Taranaki, New Zealand. Janet is an activist and writer, who has a commitment to using art as a way of building intersectional connections and communities across disability, gender, sexuality, race & class.
Janet’s love of art and commitment to activism led her to become a member of the board of DaDaFest until 2023 where she built a strong commitment to and understanding of access in Disability Arts. Whilst there, Janet also worked with previous Chief Exec Ruth Gould to organise a visit of UK Disability artists with a coalition of disability artists/activists in India/South Asia.
Over many years, Janet has been interested in and worked with textiles, creating fibre art pieces that relate to the depths of our natural world. Increasingly Janet draws upon the history and reworking of old textiles, looking to their origins in the wild and to colonial impacts upon fibre production, drawn to fibre art that challenges the injustice of power and its intersectional unwrapping.
Janet sees art as a primary route towards community, to new ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Disability, race, gender/sexuality, class and nature are at the centre of the disruption our perspectives need, and social justice is where we will find our answers.