On Quality: Disability and Aesthetic Judgements

Abstract

August 2004: Poet and arts consultant Dennis Casling writes, in a disability strategy paper for the Arts Council England:

[T]he unavoidable fact [is] that the majority of disabled people who receive funding are people with learning difficulties or rather groups working with people with learning difficulties. Such people must, of course, be funded, but not at the expense of other artists and impairment groups who are most likely to represent quality art to the mainstream. (Casling 2004: 3)