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Access to Arts: Breaking the Class Ceiling
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: January 2022
Artist: Hannah Karpel
Medium: Digtial film
Object number: FA.2023.341.CC
DescriptionVideo documentary by Hannah Karpel.
Description from the artist: Why does a career in the arts feel so unattainable if you are from a lower socio-economic
background? Unpaid internships and constant cuts to art and design courses are preventing
working class students from successfully pursuing roles in the creative sector.
This documentary - directed, presented and written by recent Central Saint Martins graduate
Hannah Karpel - looks at the disparities across the industry and holds the government to account
for its active neglect of the arts over the last decade. Those featured include freelancers fresh out of
university who are struggling to pay their bills despite working seven days a week, a CEO who
favours employing staff with an arts education and Sharon Hodgson MP of the UK Labour party -
Chair of the All Party Political Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education. Timely and
unapologetic, Access to Arts: Breaking the Class Ceiling is a call to recognise the importance of the
arts for all before it is too late.
Description from the artist: Why does a career in the arts feel so unattainable if you are from a lower socio-economic
background? Unpaid internships and constant cuts to art and design courses are preventing
working class students from successfully pursuing roles in the creative sector.
This documentary - directed, presented and written by recent Central Saint Martins graduate
Hannah Karpel - looks at the disparities across the industry and holds the government to account
for its active neglect of the arts over the last decade. Those featured include freelancers fresh out of
university who are struggling to pay their bills despite working seven days a week, a CEO who
favours employing staff with an arts education and Sharon Hodgson MP of the UK Labour party -
Chair of the All Party Political Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education. Timely and
unapologetic, Access to Arts: Breaking the Class Ceiling is a call to recognise the importance of the
arts for all before it is too late.