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Following his studies studies, Shonibare worked as an arts development officer for Shape Arts, an organisation which makes arts accessible to disabled people.
It would be like an architect choosing to build only what could be physically built by hand. Shonibare readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave. Because of his disability, he is physically incapable of carrying out the making of the work himself, and relies upon a team of assistants to realise his artistic vision for him.
I have a physical disability so, as a result, I don't focus too much on what I see in the mirror. I am not overly obsessed, because I know that I am not going to be taking Naomi Campbell's job any time soon. I focus more on the internal — cerebral attributes. When I was 18, I contracted transverse myelitis , which is inflammation of the spinal cord, and was left with complete paralysis.
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