A seminar exploring rural gallery spaces from a disabled, chronically ill &neurodiverse perspective; and how to to activate positive change
About this Event

Image: Anna Farley: Your Space. Photo © Tate (Lucy Dawkins)

Rurality and Inclusion is a seminar hosted by Melanie Stidolph and Amanda Lynch. In conversation with Tate St Ives and Exeter Phoenix exploring rural gallery spaces from a disabled, chronically ill and neurodiverse perspective; and how to activate positive change.

Rurality and Inclusion is part of VASW's How Can I Stay (I don't want to not want to stay)? programme.

When: October 24th 2024

Where: Online via Zoom, facilitated by Visual Arts South West. The seminar will be recorded and a video will be produced after the event with BSL and Otter AI captions.
Outline of event:

Georgina (George) Kennedy (Tate St Ives curator) in conversation with Anna Farley (artist) discussing Anna’s practice, the opening and reception of Anna’s alternative space within the gallery of Tate St Ives and artist and curator relationships (how this formed and what this now looks like now).

Matt Burrows (Exeter Phoenix, curator) in conversation with artist Natasha MacVoy, who will discuss how their working relationship has developed over several years, culminating in making a solo exhibition together earlier this year. Framed around the development of three key works from the show, they will discuss how they each aim to fold ideas of empathy and care into their creative processes in the particular context of the South West region.