FURTHER AFIELD 2024

Bella Milroy and LEVEL Centre are so excited to announce that Further Afield 2024 is now live!

Our thanks to Hannah Lister Of Level Centre) for providing us with the information

Further Afield 2024 is an ambitious, disabled-led online programme that explores art and disability in rural spaces. Artist and Curator Bella Milroy has collaborated with LEVEL Centre to curate a series of six recorded interviews, commissioned creative texts and research into the experiences of disabled artists in rural settings. Further Afield seeks to celebrate the work of disabled artists and question what we expect to find in rural art.

Bella Milroy

“I am very excited to share this project! I truly believe that the artists featured in the programme are some of the most interesting and important artists making art at the moment. I think it will resonate with so many people and especially other artists.

There is so much value found in how disabled artists make art, the philosophies of their making, and the ingenuity of their creative practices. The work featured in the programme is incredibly generous, providing crucial insight into how artists create amongst illness, disability and rurality. It has been a huge privilege to have worked with these artists and to share their work in this project. I’m incredibly grateful for the time and energy that they offered here.

Special thanks to the Level Centre team for supporting me to bring this project to life, and for being such a great example of how art organisations can work collaboratively with disabled artists in ways that centre trust, respect, joy and imagination.”

Visit our website to take a look:

https://bit.ly/FurtherAfield2024

It would be wonderful to see this exciting and relevant work given the space it deserves – we can’t wait to see how far it can be circulated and how many people it can reach. Please consider it for your editorials and social shares!

Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawings, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. Her work explores how we touch and make contact with the world around us, with the hand-held being of particular significance. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled).

She is interested in the duality of every-day existence, and how things can be both beautiful/painful, both interesting/dull. This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist, utilising and working with the significant limits and demands of living with a chronic illness, all mixed in with the detritus of domesticity. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work.