September 3, 2013 Current Events 0 Comments

Art created by a Norfolk poet will be highlighted alongside celebrities’ work in a national exhibition exploring life and disability one year after the Paralympics, reporst the Great Yarmouth Mercury.

Vince Laws, from Hall Road, Oulton, near Aylsham, who is HIV positive and has anxiety and depression, created his text-based Invisible Disabilities piece for the Postcards from the Edges exhibition put on by national disability charity United Response.

More than 500 postcards by artists and non-artists containing different interpretations of disability will be on show in London, Gateshead, Bristol and Liverpool but Mr Laws postcard will be one of 40 blown up in size to mark the charity’s 40th anniversary.

The Postcards from the Edges exhibitions will be at the Bankside Gallery on London’s Southbank, between September 10-15; Sage in Gateshead between October 1-4; Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol between October 10-25; and at Camp and Furnace in Liverpool between November 5-10. To find out more about Mr Laws work visit www.iamapoem.com, email [email protected]

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