About the exhibition | SVA | 14-22 November 2025

Todd Carter, Guideposts’ resident philosopher-poet, who has autism and a learning disability, once asked the question, “what does it mean to be good or evil, and are those traits determined by nature or nurture?”

It’s a universal question that many of us grapple with.

Having a learning disability can often, but not always, compromise someone’s ability to read and write, to understand the concept of money, or verbally communicate in a coherent manner, but not necessarily their ability to comprehend the age-old questions of existence, and what it means to be human.

I like. I want. I need.

These are raised by our clients on a regular basis, and you’d no doubt expect them to, because they are universal human traits, and they are largely unconscious, and far from intellectual.

But what about I believe. I hope. I wonder?

Because Todd wonders. He wonders if Cybermen have hearts and he wonders why sheep are so misunderstood. He believes that trees have souls, and he hopes that one day he will be free from all his existential worries.

Todd, and everyone else who is taking part in this exhibition, believe and hope and wonder all the time.

We hope that this exhibition helps to promote the importance of social cohesion, and of allowing everyone in our wonderfully eclectic country, especially those on the fringes, to have a voice.

Because everyone matters, and no one should be left behind.

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