Exhibition by artists with learning disabilities opens at Wentworth Woodhouse

ArtWorks Together is a new international arts competition which celebrates the work of artists with learning disabilities, autism or both.

The work of nine competition winners, including artwork from the USA, Canada, Portugal and the UK, will be exhibited at stately home Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, from May 29 to June 27.

ArtWorks is a small arts organisation which specialises in supporting artists with learning disabilities and autism in accessing the art world. An important part of this work is regular exhibitions which demonstrate the talent of these artists to the public equally to non-disabled artists.

In response to the initial lockdown, ArtWorks organised the first virtual exhibition of their artists’ work, to maintain this crucial connection to the public.

The competition received over a thousand entries in its first year running. The ArtWorks Together exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse displaying the work of the winners will be open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm and there will be eight public workshops running over the weekends.