There is No Value Hierarchy in Human Creativity

In the wake of Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize win at the end of last year, it really is time to acknowledge creative achievements among learning disabled people in the everyday as well as the extraordinary, says Saba Salman

“Idol, legend, winner, whatever” were the words on the rosette worn by multimedia artist Nnena Kalu as she accepted the Turner Prize at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery inBradford.

As Kalu’s name and abstract pieces featured across the UK news media in December, Charlotte Hollinshead, Kalu’s facilitator and head of artist development at charity ActionSpace, described her win as “seismic” and a “major, major moment for a lot of people”.

This was no hyperbole.