Viva Brighton Issue #62 April 2018
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ART<br />
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Johnny Carroll-Pell<br />
Rocket Artist<br />
20-year-old Johnny Carroll-Pell is a prolific<br />
painter and member of the Rocket Artists<br />
collective, a group of artists with and without<br />
learning disabilities who develop their arts<br />
practice within Phoenix <strong>Brighton</strong>. This month<br />
Rocket Artists presents Art by Johnny, a solo<br />
show of more than 30 of his paintings. We talk<br />
to Johnny’s mum, Angela Pell, about his work.<br />
Johnny really was away in his own world<br />
for such a long time. Now he’s able to make<br />
his needs understood in one or two-word<br />
utterances but, when he was younger, he had<br />
no language at all. You hear stories where an autistic<br />
person finds an interest that makes them<br />
more interactive and more verbal. Painting<br />
hasn’t necessarily done that for Johnny, but he<br />
really enjoys it.<br />
He’s very quick – he’ll make a large painting<br />
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