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BBC News
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Direct social care payments 'helped me to become an artist'
An award-winning autistic artist said she was able to follow her dreams after being given the freedom to manage her own social care Hirst, who also has learning disabilities, is currently an artist in residence at the Everyday Art School at the Whitworth Gallery in withdrawing from college due to health problems, the 24-year-old from Old Trafford decided to use her funding to sign up for a placement for artists with learning disabilities."It just feels really amazing to be able to do something that I love and enjoy and I'm passionate about all the time," she said. Ms Hirst, who also has hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome, was able to hone her skills during her time at Venture Arts in placement was funded through direct payments provided by Trafford direct payments is an alternative to accepting care organised by the local is designed to give service users more autonomy about the services they need and receive. 'Confidence and purpose' "Everybody is different," said Jenny Gibson, who works forTrafford Council."Everybody has different needs and wants and we just want people to be able to get the care that they want in the way that they want it to suit their own lifestyle."Ms Hirst's work has been exhibited at Manchester's Jewish Museum, the People's History Museum and Portico has also co-curated an art exhibition in was named Young Creative of the Year at the 2024 Manchester Culture mother Emma Hirst said it was amazing to see what her daughter had achieved."It's allowed her to follow her dreams," she said."She is an artist working at a studio and that's what's so amazing. "It gives her such confidence and purpose." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
BBC News
09-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Turner prints on show in Manchester for first time in 100 years
Some of JMW Turner's lesser-known work has gone on display to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his Whitworth Gallery in Manchester said it created the exhibition, which contains 71 prints from Turner's celebrated Liber Studiorum collection, to encourage people to rethink his legacy as a master of oils and gallery said it was the first time the entire set of the prints had been shown in more than 100 years. Exhibition curator Imogen Holmes-Roe said it was "probably one of Turner's most ambitious print projects", produced at the height of his career. Ms Holmes-Roe said the works were being displayed together, as Turner exhibition was "exploring his genius as both painter and a master of printmaking", a medium he pursued at a time when printmaking was regarded as secondary to painting, she said. "Turner's prints are not just technical feats, they are emotional experiences," Ms Holmes-Roe said."With each engraving, Turner reimagined landscape - not just as a subject but as a language, using the print medium to evoke mood, atmosphere and scale."This exhibition is a celebration of that vision, offering a fresh, immersive look at a body of work that has too often been overshadowed by Turner's oils and watercolours." The prints have also been paired with some of Turner's famous watercolours and rarely seen oil work has been in the Whitworth's collection since 1922, but was only authenticated as a Turner in 2016, Ms Holmes-Roe said."It is very special to the Whitworth," she added."Very few people will have had access to it before now."Turner: In Light and Shade is on view at the Whitworth until 2 November. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
