The New Front Door, 27A Access Artspace, Leicester
Made September 1993, during my residency at 27A Access Artspace, Leicester, when I shared my woodcarving skills with six people with varying disabilities. Achieved by woodcarving novices in four weeks, the relief panels were carved from lime and painted with watercolour. I contributed two panels myself. The pine door was made in the joinery workshop next door.
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27A Access Artspace, in Belvoir Street, Leicester, provided disabled people of Leicester and the surrounding area with an arts workshop run and managed on disabled people's terms. I did encourage the six people I worked with, all woodcarving beginners, to design their pieces based on a collective theme promoting positive images of disability. However, each person created very different, individual designs which nevertheless expressed a surprising unity when assembled into the new door.
