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Unsolicited Advice!


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Unsolicited Advice!
Amy Claire Mills

Gallery 3
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Unsolicited Advice! is a new body of work drawn from a lifetime of awkward, and often insensitive, unsolicited advice I am given after people discover I am disabled. This text-based textile installation deconstructs these interactions, amplifying all the cliché, ill-informed and thoughtless advice disabled people are accustomed to hearing – and highlighting the absurdity of our need to save, change or fix disabled people.

Extracts from these conversations have been sewn into vibrant quilts and cushions that the audience is invited to interact with. Although soft and delicate, quilts have the ability to hold within them our emotional weight. Tactile, bright and playful, the quilts contrast against the underlying meaning of the exhibition: that unsolicited advice is unwelcome. Unsolicited Advice! aspires to create a safe and soft place within which audiences can emotionally engage and break down their own preconceived biases.

– Amy Claire Mills

 

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