Visual Artist

Larissa MacFarlane

Larissa MacFarlane is a visual artist and disability activist whose practice encompasses printmaking, street art and community art. MacFarlane identifies as a proud queer disabled artist who draws on her experience of a 22-year-old brain injury to investigate disabled culture, community, identity and pride.

Larissa MacFarlane is a visual artist and disability activist whose practice encompasses printmaking, street art and community art. MacFarlane identifies as a proud queer disabled artist who draws on her experience of a 22-year-old brain injury to investigate disabled culture, community, identity and pride.

MacFarlane’s street art investigates her daily ritual of performing handstands, a key part of her disability self-management.

For two decades, MacFarlane has been involved in the self-advocacy, disability justice and disability rights movements, leading and collaborating on many community and arts projects.