The unsung Madchester artist

Matt Carroll, who created riotous art in the early 90s, is exhibiting with his sister Maria, who has Down’s. You may already know her work, discovers Paul FlynnTom and Mary Carroll raised nine children in their modest council house in Little Hulton, Salford. When daughter Maria was born with Down’s syndrome, her siblings would occasionally have to run down to the shops to have a word with local scallywags teasing her. So incensed was Tom by the treatment of kids with Down’s, he