ACTOR Damian Lewis called for more funding for underprivileged artists as he gave out the inaugural Helen McCrory Award in honour of his late wife last night. Actor McCrory tragically died of cancer last year. HVH Arts charity, where she was a patron, gave arts training prizes to children in her name.
Discussing how UK art had been “middle-classed” due to being “critically underfunded” compared to neighbours, Lewis told The Londoner: “If we want working-class writers... we’ve got to find a way of giving them the confidence to pursue it, but also the financial backing to have failures.”
