Kath Duncan is a self-proclaimed SuperFreak, being born different, and this she sees as an enormous advantage to living differently.

Kath’s artforms are manifold; they do not quite fit any category and indeed, they smash categories, in a deliberate and strategic intent to defy obstacles to creative expression. She is a writer, a director, a provocateur, a visual artist, a comedienne, a producer, a journalist, a radio presenter – whatever she has to be in order to get the message out that disability is a glorious frame for living, and that the limitations of disability belong in the hearts and minds of others.

Kath is her own work of art. She mines her lived experiences ruthlessly and with exquisite generosity, to bring the experience of disability to audiences who may or may not share her views. Much of Kath’s artistic practice is steeped in her own lived experience, which is a key prism through which she observes the world. Her courage and tenacity in telling her own story has been the catalyst for many disabled artists to find their voice and tell their truth. Kath uses the arts to rail against the restrictions of an inaccessible and unwelcoming society, using and subverting the inherently problematic practices of theatre, written and spoken word, and comedy. 

Kath is a renaissance woman and a rebel. Her art is truthful, uncomfortable, raucously funny, discombobulating and piercingly blunt. Since 2010, Kath has co-founded, curated and produced Quippings, a diverse and inclusive independent cabaret ensemble and platform which has revolutionised pathways into the disability arts and independent arts scenes, nurturing hundreds of young and emerging intersectional disabled artists to develop skills across artistic domains from performance to production.

Kath is deeply engaged in the language of disability as expressed through the arts. This is Kath’s narrative form, honed through years of journalistic practice, and realised on a national scale through conversations with disabled artists across the country. 

One of the most important and tangible outcomes of Kath’s work as an artist and creative producer is Disability Pride. Kath has challenged limited and negative preconceptions of disability in all of her work, instead suggesting without compromise that the lived experience of disability is a source of deep and abiding pride.