For a period of time in art history, the biographical approach was contested as being too personal, unreliable and biased. To a certain extent this also led to autobiographical art being seen as egocentric and trivial against greater cultural and political subjects.
Australian Filipina artist Marikit Santiago tells ArtsHub: ’A piece of advice that I got in my third year of art school was that you can’t sustain a professional art practice on the autobiographical.’
