Further Afield

Available online via the Level Centre Website, 24/7

About Further Afield

In 2022, disabled artist and curator Bella Milroy, in partnership with Level Centre, hosted a number of interviews with disabled artists based in rural locations across the country. These interviews were hosted as live events, and are still available on the Further Afield Archive page.

In this new iteration of the project, Bella Milroy has collaborated again with Level Centre to curate a series of recorded interviews, written work and research into the experiences of disabled artists in rural settings.

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 opportunities.

For each interview there is an accompanying text created by one of 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.

This programme features some of the most exciting artists and writers around today, offering insight into how disabled artists make work and the places in which that work emerges.

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

Explore the project and learn more at Further Afield

Access at Further Afield

Closed Captions

There are closed captions accompanying the film and recorded events.

Open Captions

There are open captions accompanying the films and recorded events.

Online 24/7

The entire Further Afield project is published online to be accessed at a time and place to suit you.

About the artist

Bella Milroy

Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled).

Learn more about Bella Milroy and her work.

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