Join Disability Arts Online for the official launch of digital gallery, dis_place, and the opening of 'I need to be more than a lesson you learned', the inaugural exhibition to be curated for the gallery.

This free exhibition brings together work by nine artists, including three new commissions by Babeworld, Abi Palmer and Jamila Prowse. 'I need to be more than a lesson you learned' is a group exhibition that 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. The gallery will also unveil a new permanent foyer artwork which is a digital imagining of a fictional accessible gallery building by disabled architectural researcher and designer Jordan Whitewood-Neal.

Come along to this special launch event at 4pm on 25 February to receive a guided tour of the digital exhibition and gallery; and discover the ideas, art works and experiences involved in 'I need to be more than a lesson you learned'. Guests include Jordan Whitewood-Neal, architectural researcher and producer of the new permanent foyer artwork, exhibiting artists, and dis_place's curator, Nathalie Boobis.

Access Information

This event will be BSL interpreted and live captioned.