Tangled’s Tenth: A Juried Exhibition

Tangled’s Tenth marks the tenth anniversary of Tangled Art Gallery, bringing together fourteen artists working across painting, sculpture, textile, performance, video, glass, and self-publishing practices. This exhibition offers a snapshot of a field that has grown in depth, complexity, and confidence over the past decade.

For much of its history, Tangled has focused on solo exhibitions and carefully curated projects. This was an intentional response to a longstanding tendency within the art sector to group disability artists together without meaningful curatorial consideration, reducing artistic practices to shared identity. Yet as Disability Arts continues to mature, new questions emerge.

Curated from Tangled’s recent open calls, the artists in this exhibition represent a wide range of approaches, aesthetics, experiences, and relationships to disability culture. Some works engage disability directly; others approach it obliquely, through material experimentation, storytelling, abstraction, performance, humour, memory, or acts of world-building. Together, they challenge the tendency to flatten disability into a one-dimensional experience, revealing instead the complexity, multiplicity, and contradiction that make room for many stories of disability.