Textiles, text and a leather living room armchair, distressed and decorated, with endless reams of pa-perwork, that the Mother Carer previously completed while on a journey with her son.
By Kerry Fox, Mother Carer (2024).
‘Every education health and care plan, every social care plan, every letter and report from countless health professionals, endless requests for a carer assessment that never comes.
Tribunal documents from the legal cases you fight to ensure your child has an education, the 12 years of clinical negligence litigation, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment.
Assessments, reviews, on a repeat cycle, the annual review for education, for social care, for continuing health care, for learning disabilities, for neurology.
Each twisted form and document, each turn of bureaucracy, each rupture, tied, tension bound and wrapped, taut and fraught, heavy, teetering, repeat…….. How many forms did you fill out today?’
Location – The central space of the main library at York Explore.
Description – The artwork is made up of a large leather living room arm chair. The arm chair is slightly distressed and decorated, with endless reams of paperwork, pieces of material and textiles emerging from it. Around the chair are scatted shredded paperwork. Within the paperwork are printed words and phrases, like ‘overwhelming paperwork’ and ‘they attach many words and phrases’. The paper-work used in the piece come from the many health, social care and education reports, assessments, correspondence that the Mother Carer previously completed while on a journey with her son.