'I need to be more than a lesson you learned' is a free exhibition that brings together work by nine artists, including three new commissions by Babeworld, Abi Palmer and Jamila Prowse. This group exhibition explores embodied disabled experiences of access in relation to ableist approaches to diversity and inclusion.

The artists centre disability-led embodiment, exposing ableist cracks and planting seeds of intimacy, disabled joy and interdependence to take root within them. Unmasked and unselfconscious, the artworks in 'I need to be more than a lesson you learned' trouble and supplant imposed and ableist ideas of disability. Collectively, they present a disabled-led discourse on embodied experiences of diversity and inclusion, and assert a collective version of access that is restful, intimate, joyful, erotic and interdependent.

Exhibiting artists: Abi Palmer, Alt Text Selfie project, Babeworld, Becky Beasley, Bella Milroy, Ezra Benus, Christine Sun Kim, Jamila Prowse and Jo Longhurst.

The exhibition opening marks the official launch of dis_place, Disability Arts Online's new digital gallery. As part of this, a permanent foyer artwork is being unveiled in dis_place. The piece is a digital imagining of a fictional accessible gallery building by disabled architectural researcher and designer Jordan Whitewood-Neal.

About dis_place

dis_place is an innovative digital gallery space dedicated to removing access barriers to exhibitions while platforming the work of disabled, D/deaf, and/or neurodivergent artists with a focus on intersectionality.

The gallery has been built to offer audiences multiple ways of accessing artworks from anywhere. Visitors can experience exhibitions presented on digital gallery walls and move through different rooms.

Access Information

There are multiple accessible versions of the artworks and accompanying written information, including audio description, BSL, and Easy Read overviews.