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Liam Toner

Painter.

As humans, we can’t help but be drawn to images of the human face, and it’s all the more captivating when you happen upon an artist who is engaging with this most familiar of facets in a way that challenges your ideas about what it really means to be ‘human’. Sheffield-based painter Liam Toner is one such artist.

 

“I grew up in Sheffield and I’ve painted since school but what I was using my painting to do and explore has shifted since the first lockdown. A few disparate strands started to pull together into my current artistic practice.

I’m really interested in disability. I’m neurodiverse and have always worked alongside other disabled people. I think through the lived experiences and stories of disabled people, a lot of the problems with the world get drawn out and writ large. You start to see with a bit more clarity the kinds of people and ways of being that our current society values, and what the limits of normative assumptions might be – this is sometimes referred to as ableism. My art practice has – among other things – become my way of exploring that.” Liam Toner 2021