Qualeasha Wood's 2023 tapestry, POWER OFF, is currently on view in Design and Disability at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The exhbition runs through to 15 February 2026.
Both a celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.
The first part of the exhibition, Visibility, spotlights how disabled makers express their identities in different cultural mediums. Qualeasha's work is situated in this section. Next, Tools highlights the creativity of disabled people in adapting objects to suit a greater diversity of access needs, while the final section, Living, presents how disabled people have effected change in the environments around them.
