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The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary (ARMB), now in its fourth year, "has firmly established itself as one of the most significant commissioning opportunities for disabled artists in the UK" (Able Magazine, 2011). The bursary remembers the life and work of Adam Reynolds - a sculptor, curator, teacher and arts advisor, active in the Disability Arts sector, who showed his work throughout the 1980s and 90s whilst developing the Adam Gallery in an old cobbler's shop in south London. The Bursary supports a disabled artist or group of artists working in the visual arts. Sculptor Antony Gormley, patron of the bursary, opened last year's Shortlist Exhibition at Shape: "I think this bursary is about celebrating. Art is a broad field, and in it there are intelligences that have particular points of view. In a post ideological time, when ... notions of moral order or political hierarchy are crumbling, the necessity of celebrating subjective and particular points of view becomes so critical. I think we are at an extraordinary moment in terms of how human beings value 'value' itself and where we go to look for value, meaning, truth - and I celebrate all the artists in this exhibition." The...
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