10 July 24

Further Afield: Exploring art and disability in rural spaces

This programme seeks to celebrate the work of disabled artists and question what we expect to find in rural art, striving to broaden the current understanding of what the rural embodies, who experiences it, and what kinds of art is made there.
Venue
https://levelcentre.com/further-afield-2024/
Starts
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Ends
Friday, July 11, 2025
Address
Online
Location
Across UK
Organiser
Produced in collaboration between Bella Milroy and Level Centre.
Black text on a white background in all capitals reads “Further Afield”. Underneath is a subheading which reads “Exploring art and disability in rural spaces”. Above the text is a computer generated image of what looks like a podcast microphone, that also looks like a tree. The shape is drawn with thick black lines and filled in with a green colour.

Further Afield is an ambitious, disabled-led project that explores the work of disabled artists who are rurally based or whose creative practices are rooted in rural settings.

 

The programme seeks to celebrate the work of disabled artists and question what we expect to find in rural art, striving to broaden the current understanding of what the rural embodies, who experiences it, and what kinds of art is made there.

 

In a series of six interviews available in audio and video format, Bella Milroy speaks with disabled artists from across the UK, exploring what living and making art in rural spaces means to them. The conversations explore topics such as barriers to access, isolation, rural infrastructure, creative community, imagination, and the desire for diverse, inclusive and accessible creative opportunities.

 

For each interview there is an accompanying text created by six different disabled writers. They were commissioned in response to the recordings as a way of furthering the conversation about art and disability in rural settings.

 

Produced in collaboration between Bella Milroy and Level Centre.

Curated by Bella Milroy

 

Featuring:

 

Letty McHugh

Harry Josephine Giles

Grace Currie

Sadé Mica

Joanne Coates

Natalie Sharp

 

Polly Atkin

Gabrielle de la Puente

Sue Jones

Jamila Prowse

Louisa Adjoa Parker

Khairani Barokka

 

All Further Afield interviews and written texts are available on the Level Centre website. There will be transcripts of all conversations. Go to https://levelcentre.com/further-afield-2024/ for more information about the project, access, and the contributing artists.

 

Further Afield is a project supported by Arts Council England, Level Centre, Shape Arts, Derbyshire Libraries, Haarlem Artspace, Arts Derbyshire and Wysing Arts Centre.