Jennifer Lauren Gallery
Jennifer Gilbert of the Jennifer Lauren Gallery has been working alongside and supporting deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists for over 16 years. Through the gallery, Jennifer directly supports around twenty artists internationally on the journey’s they want to take, and many more artists alongside this through mentoring, professional development, producer roles, and funding application writing and support.
Alongside this, Jennifer provides consultancy and a solutions-focussed approach to visual arts galleries, museums and organisations around the UK, to support working with this group of artists, as well as looking to produce Easy Read guides, commission BSL videos and tours, and so on.
For the past three years she has been working with the Plus Tate network and artists with different lived experiences of disability to produce a toolkit on how museums and galleries can better work with and support deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists. It covers everything from language and terminology, to creating accessible exhibitions, to simple contacts, to the role of supported studios, to callout info etc. An initial long PDF has been released, and it is hopefully being made into a website so that it is constantly up-to-date.
Through her work Jennifer hopes to: demystify what is regarded as art and who can be an artist; stimulate audiences; re-look at how work is displayed and written about within contemporary art, and by art critics; and to continue to challenge the stigma surrounding this field of art thereby ensuring that the art is the main focus, and not the biographies.
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