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Artist Daisy Lafarge Highlights Disability in New Exhibition

2/4/2026

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Daisy Lafarge, an award-winning novelist and poet, created impressionistic paintings while coping with pain from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Her works use basic materials and will be shown at Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre in the exhibition "We Contain Multitudes."
Lafarge applauds Nnena Kalu's Turner Prize win but questions its meaning without addressing issues facing disabled artists, like access to care.
She hopes her art resonates with all audiences, underscoring disability as universal.

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Story summary

Daisy Lafarge, an award-winning novelist and poet, created impressionistic paintings while coping with pain from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Her works use basic materials and will be shown at Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre in the exhibition "We Contain Multitudes."
Lafarge applauds Nnena Kalu's Turner Prize win but questions its meaning without addressing issues facing disabled artists, like access to care.
She hopes her art resonates with all audiences, underscoring disability as universal.