Manchester-based RISE have just published a report on the impediments & discriminations suffered by working class artists & art workers.... which includes this brilliant summation from one interviewee:
'Its not a meritocracy, its a mirrortocracy'.
Commissioners & institutions hand out money to those who look (and speak/act) like themselves, reinforcing the class dimension of the UK arts scene!
Its more than this but this a big factor!
#arts #UK #class
h/t Art Monthly
https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf