Outside IN is commissioning new work from three of the UK’s leading Disabled Artists for inclusion in three mainstream galleries in the West Midlands and Welsh Borders from 2010 to 2011.
The disability inclusive project Outside IN has been designed and is coordinated by DASH (the UK’s leading rural Disability Arts organisation in the UK) and is working in partnership with Oriel Davies Wales, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton Art Gallery to commission innovative and original Disability Art across the region for inclusion in their programmes in 2010 and 2011. Outside IN is designed also to develop the practice and profile of Disabled Artists of immense talent and creativity.
The primary objective of Outside IN is to increase the number of Disabled and Deaf artists working in partnership with mainstream galleries and to raise the profile of Disability Art and artists locally, regionally and nationally.
Beginnings:
Outside IN started in 2008 when DASH - as a Regularly Funded Organisation - had an increase in Arts Council funding and raised the question: ‘Why are there so few Disabled Artists exhibited in mainstream galleries?’ As a result, DASH began a dialogue with a number of galleries and DASH received very positive responses and identified a desire to challenge and change the under-representation of Disability Art and disabled artists exhibiting in mainstream Art Galleries. DASH held workshops with the three galleries selected to work in partnership with DASH on the Outside IN project exploring ‘What is Disability Art?’
The primary result of this was that DASH, in partnership with each gallery, will be commissioning a Disabled Artist to be part of their programme in 2010 or 2011. In addition to the three artist commissions there will be a series of ‘artists in conversation’ events in each partner gallery and at DASH’s space in Shrewsbury.
The project culminates in a Disability Art and Culture symposium in December 2011; an event that will be informed and led by the evaluation of Outside IN. The symposium will be specifically aimed at Gallery and Museum staff working in contemporary art practice. The symposium will also be the launch event for the ‘lead on’ project that is the next stage of Outside IN. Evaluation had to be a key strategic element of the project in order to create a solid foundation for the future and extension of the Project.
Now:
All three galleries will be shortlisting artists for the three commissions in October 2009 with interviews taking place in November as well as finalising the dates for the inclusion of the selected artist’s in each galleries programme. Soon after, DASH will be setting out the calendar for the ‘Artists in Conversation’ events. Plus, of course, the date and details of the Symposium, in the latter part of 2011, will be finalised.
Next:
The first artist will start at The New Art Gallery Walsall in early 2010 – working in the Gallery’s exciting space known as the ‘Artists Studio’. In the space a Disabled Artist will be creating new ideas and engaging audiences like never before: bringing Disability Art to the space and mainstream audiences. The aim is to also bring disabled people into the mainstream of arts exhibition as part of the development of new audiences for Disability Art and for the partner galleries. The New Art Gallery Walsall will be the first Outside IN commission to place: a disabled artist at the Artists' Studio for three two week periods during the 12 months of 2011. In addition, they will be the first to host an Artist in Conversation event in the autumn of 2010.
Soon:
The second Artist in Conversation event will take place at DASH, in Shrewsbury, and will take place in March of 2011; the third Artist in Conversation event will be at Oriel Davies Wales in the summer of 2011. The artist commissioned to create a new work at Oriel Davies will be exhibited in September 2011.
In relation to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, the Disability Art commission will be showcased in the autumn and winter of 2011 Wolverhampton Art Gallery; a period during which the final Artist in Conversation event will take place.
All event dates to be confirmed ...
The Director of DASH, Mike Layward, states that:
‘Outside IN does what it says on the tin’. DASH welcomes the spirit of co-operation and generosity of the three galleries who have approached Outside IN with open minds to the possibilities of this project and invited DASH into their gallery. This is only the beginning, the possibilities are infinite’.
Paul Darke, DASH’s Visual Arts Manager (lead officer for Outside IN), states that:
Outside IN is at the forefront of Disability Arts promotion and delivery and, I believe, Outside IN to be an exciting, original and bold innovation in the inclusion of different voices within the mainstream of art exhibition and commissioning. Outside IN not only challenges mainstream practice in the arts but changes the very nature of commissioning and ensures a degree of inclusion of disabled people that has not happened before in relation to Disability Arts.
DASH Contacts:
DASH
Paul Darke – Visual Arts Manager – darke@dasharts.org
Mike Layward – Artistic Director - mike@dasharts.org
Paula Dower – General Manager – paula@dasharts.org
Tel: 01743 272939 / 271676 - www.dasharts.org
The disability inclusive project Outside IN has been designed and is coordinated by DASH (the UK’s leading rural Disability Arts organisation in the UK) and is working in partnership with Oriel Davies Wales, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton Art Gallery to commission innovative and original Disability Art across the region for inclusion in their programmes in 2010 and 2011. Outside IN is designed also to develop the practice and profile of Disabled Artists of immense talent and creativity.
The primary objective of Outside IN is to increase the number of Disabled and Deaf artists working in partnership with mainstream galleries and to raise the profile of Disability Art and artists locally, regionally and nationally.
Beginnings:
Outside IN started in 2008 when DASH - as a Regularly Funded Organisation - had an increase in Arts Council funding and raised the question: ‘Why are there so few Disabled Artists exhibited in mainstream galleries?’ As a result, DASH began a dialogue with a number of galleries and DASH received very positive responses and identified a desire to challenge and change the under-representation of Disability Art and disabled artists exhibiting in mainstream Art Galleries. DASH held workshops with the three galleries selected to work in partnership with DASH on the Outside IN project exploring ‘What is Disability Art?’
The primary result of this was that DASH, in partnership with each gallery, will be commissioning a Disabled Artist to be part of their programme in 2010 or 2011. In addition to the three artist commissions there will be a series of ‘artists in conversation’ events in each partner gallery and at DASH’s space in Shrewsbury.
The project culminates in a Disability Art and Culture symposium in December 2011; an event that will be informed and led by the evaluation of Outside IN. The symposium will be specifically aimed at Gallery and Museum staff working in contemporary art practice. The symposium will also be the launch event for the ‘lead on’ project that is the next stage of Outside IN. Evaluation had to be a key strategic element of the project in order to create a solid foundation for the future and extension of the Project.
Now:
All three galleries will be shortlisting artists for the three commissions in October 2009 with interviews taking place in November as well as finalising the dates for the inclusion of the selected artist’s in each galleries programme. Soon after, DASH will be setting out the calendar for the ‘Artists in Conversation’ events. Plus, of course, the date and details of the Symposium, in the latter part of 2011, will be finalised.
Next:
The first artist will start at The New Art Gallery Walsall in early 2010 – working in the Gallery’s exciting space known as the ‘Artists Studio’. In the space a Disabled Artist will be creating new ideas and engaging audiences like never before: bringing Disability Art to the space and mainstream audiences. The aim is to also bring disabled people into the mainstream of arts exhibition as part of the development of new audiences for Disability Art and for the partner galleries. The New Art Gallery Walsall will be the first Outside IN commission to place: a disabled artist at the Artists' Studio for three two week periods during the 12 months of 2011. In addition, they will be the first to host an Artist in Conversation event in the autumn of 2010.
Soon:
The second Artist in Conversation event will take place at DASH, in Shrewsbury, and will take place in March of 2011; the third Artist in Conversation event will be at Oriel Davies Wales in the summer of 2011. The artist commissioned to create a new work at Oriel Davies will be exhibited in September 2011.
In relation to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, the Disability Art commission will be showcased in the autumn and winter of 2011 Wolverhampton Art Gallery; a period during which the final Artist in Conversation event will take place.
All event dates to be confirmed ...
The Director of DASH, Mike Layward, states that:
‘Outside IN does what it says on the tin’. DASH welcomes the spirit of co-operation and generosity of the three galleries who have approached Outside IN with open minds to the possibilities of this project and invited DASH into their gallery. This is only the beginning, the possibilities are infinite’.
Paul Darke, DASH’s Visual Arts Manager (lead officer for Outside IN), states that:
Outside IN is at the forefront of Disability Arts promotion and delivery and, I believe, Outside IN to be an exciting, original and bold innovation in the inclusion of different voices within the mainstream of art exhibition and commissioning. Outside IN not only challenges mainstream practice in the arts but changes the very nature of commissioning and ensures a degree of inclusion of disabled people that has not happened before in relation to Disability Arts.
DASH Contacts:
DASH
Paul Darke – Visual Arts Manager – darke@dasharts.org
Mike Layward – Artistic Director - mike@dasharts.org
Paula Dower – General Manager – paula@dasharts.org
Tel: 01743 272939 / 271676 - www.dasharts.org
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