Kimberley Burrows: Accessible making and making accessible

In this episode, we chat to Kimberly Burrows. Kimberly graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Painting in 2023, and continued her RCA journey as the President of the RCA Student Union. She is an interdisciplinary artist, disability advocate and model living and working in London.

Kimberley is a recipient of the Tony Snowdon Scholarship, awarded by The Snowdon Trust to exceptional disabled scholars, and was named on The Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 List of the UK’s top 100 influential disabled people and organisations.

Listen as Kimberley chats to fellow RCA graduate, Benji Jerffrey, about:

• The definition of ‘accessibility’

• Accessibility in the arts and the digital world

• Her artistic practice, and her journey as a disabled artist through creative education

Learn more about Kimberley

• Explore her artwork exhibited at RCA2023 Exhibitions & Events

• Instagram

• Website

Mentioned in the episode

• RCASU website

• RCASU on Instagram

• The RCA Disabled Student Network

• The Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 List.

Funding and studying at the RCA

• Scholarships and funding at the RCA

• Tony Snowden Scholarship

• Studying at the RCA 

Support for students with disabilities at the RCA

• Article: 5 things you didn’t know about disability support at the RCA

• Webpage: Disability Support.

Additional reading/resources

• Interview with Kimberley Burrows in her role as President of the RCA Student Union.

• Arts and creative therapies, from Mind, a mental health charity.

• Check out disability arts organisations -

  • Unlimited

  • Outside In

  • Disability Arts

• Notes on blindness by John M Hall -

  • Book

  • Audio book

• Check out artist Emilie Louise Gossiaux -

  • Instagram

  • Website