Painting is a language outside words

The Tower of Babel when the single language of the world was dispersed into many languages.

I’ve been thinking about decolonising the curriculum for a while. Our education system is still dominated and assessed by the written word. Back in the 1990s, art colleges were consumed by universities – their new academic boards demanded word-based research outcomes. This was at odds with practice-based, hands-on art degrees taught in studios. We’ve been […]