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Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Hoiuedard exhibtion presented 26 plastic poems, 26 typewriter poems, and 13 one sided plastic laminated poems with titles. None of these Houedard poems were titled. Gu ardian Obituary for Audrey Barker: Audrey Barker, who has died aged 69, was an inspiration to the development of the young as artists, especially through her work and thoughts about people with disabilities. She was born in West Ham, in London's docklands, and during the second world war was evacuated to a farm where she contracted tuberculosis from untreated milk. This led to crippling bone damage and eight years in hospital. She missed much formal education, but she read avidly, gaining a scholarship to East Ham Grammar School for Girls in 1944, later attending Walthamstow School of Art (1950-55) and then Leicester College of Art for a teacher training year. She exhibited her paintings widely from 1953 in group shows such as Young Contemporaries, the Royal Academy summer shows, the New English Art club and...