Here’s an interesting review of an Art exhibition made by learning disabled artists and Wicked Fish.
The Museum of Liverpool’s latest exhibition, From There To Here: The Hidden History Of People With Learning Difficulties In Merseyside, aims to explore and celebrate the social and cultural history of people with learning difficulties over the past 100 years, which has often remained unseen.
Have a look and tell us what you think of the review. Do you think that it takes the work seriously? Please come back to this page and tell us what you think.
http://www.thedoublenegative.
I agree, Chloe. It’s a description of an exhibition, not a critique of the artistic work. I have read so many reviews like this. It seems a bit of a lost opportunity to me. It’s great that the work was reviewed, but a shame that the reviewer doesn’t appear to have taken the artists seriously. Dare I call it patronising?
I think what’s interesting about this review is that it talks mainly about the presentation of the work and the lack of context given about the process of creating the work – as opposed to talking about the quality of the work created by the learning disabled artists themselves. It seems to me that in this way the learning disabled artists are again being sidelined, in favour of considering the elements of the exhibition that perhaps haven’t been created by them. It’s back to the process versus outcome quality issue I think. What’s most important? Either? Neither? Both?