Vegas featured in a Channel 4 documentary earlier this year, which followed him creating a public sculpture in St Helens while navigating an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis.
He said: “In education, I was your classic ‘could do well, must try harder’. It was attention span, it was ADHD.”
Vegas said he worked on many different art projects at once.
“There’s your ADHD and evidence that everything catches your eye,” he said.
“I’m like a magpie, but I’m not bothered if it’s shiny or owt, I’ll just have it. I’ll draw it, I’ll sketch it.”
Vegas said he believed art was increasingly “vital” in a world with more and more diagnoses of neurodivergencies.
“In an era where we are increasingly aware of neurodiversity, the arts are being cut in education and everywhere,” he said.
“The arts are suffering and there are more children that will not discover their potential because they’re being told they are rubbish at science and maths.
“But they can excel within the arts, within creativity, and they need to be given that opportunity.”
