DYSPLA: Neurodivergent Aesthetics

With the exhibition Neurodivergent Aesthetics , DYSPLA aims to showcase the intersectionality of contemporary art and disability aesthetics. DYSPLA CIC is a London based award-winning neurodivergent-led arts organisation and the winner of the Saatchi Gallery Digital Artist of the Future Prize 2025, is known for their pioneering digital art narratives, and for expanding the conversation around disability aesthetics through their explorations of what might constitute a ‘Neurodivergent Aesthetic.’ DYSPLA advocates that this new term is culturally significant, intellectually rigorous and central to contemporary art discourse and claim there are links between neurodivergence and aesthetics. As part of the exhibition, DYSPLA will digitally reproduce historical and newly created artefacts alongside works developed during DYSPLA_Inclination workshops with students from Kings Park Newhaven School, Greenwich, funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The exhibition positions neurodivergence as culturally significant, intellectually rigorous and central to contemporary art practice. It asks whether difference itself—divergent cognition—can be seen, identified and understood through aesthetics. While recognising that identity is shaped by multiple factors including environment, education and privilege, DYSPLA argues that cognition plays a fundamental role in artistic identity, methodology and creative output.