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PROJECT ARCHIVE
Public Open Exhibition 2024
4 July – 4 September 2024
See the best Contemporary Visual Art produced both by and for learning disabled, neurodivergent, and disabled artists in our Public Open Exhibition 2024. Vote for your favourite in person or online!
No Sleep Just Clouds
4 July – 4 September 2024
Taking visual inspiration from anime, gaming and pop culture, No Sleep Just Clouds is an immersive storytelling experience following a neurodivergent artist, and their mission to create the ultimate, perfect piece of work.
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[Isolation] Art Mail
18 April – 27 June 2024
[Isolation] Art Mail is the celebratory conclusion to a project that began during lockdown. Artist Tracey Meek exhibits as the recipient of the ‘Corridors Commission’, a collaboration between LEVEL and QUAD.
Create My World: Nature
18 April – 27 June 2024
A family-friendly exhibition focused on nature, world-building and exploration. Get creative and bring your own digital creations to life!
Spring Open Day 2024
10 April 2024
LEVEL Centre Spring Open Day Wednesday 10 April 11am – 3pm! Come and join in the fun at our Spring Open Day event with lots of creative activities to take part in. FREE to attend and no need to book.
PlayLAND
11 Jan – 12 April 2024
A fun, interactive installation, PlayLAND brings the world of outdoor play inside the Level Centre building, inviting you to play, sense and immerse yourself in a playful relaxing world.
Daisyland
11 January – 12 April 2024
A period survival quilt created from pom poms depicting ‘Daisyland’ a queer utopia that artist Corinne and their only childhood and imaginary friend named Daisy created.
Metamorphic (Traces)
11 Jan – 12 April 2024
A trace memento of two artists’ time spent considering how dance manifests in non dancers’ bodies and how movement could be incorporated into their disabled body.
I Got On The Bus In One Life, And Off In Another
11 Jan – 12 April 2024
Grace Currie is our Spotlight Award artist for 2024. She’ll be displaying new work in development and/or work from their collection in our gallery space.
A Necklace of Stars
27 Sept 2023 – 5 Jan 2024
Created by older people during the pandemic, A Necklace of Stars celebrates childhood and the night sky in words, song and stitches and is a testimony to the power of human connection and creativity.
Be Happy With Who You Are
8 Sept 2023 – 5 Jan 2024
A joint project between our Level Makes visual art group and Little Canyon Collective exploring the concept of being happy and what happiness can look like.
Water Portals
8 Sept 2023 – 5 Jan 2024
An interactive digital journey exploring the microscopic world of water. Discover the beautiful microbes that live in our rivers, lakes and seas, and understand the crucial roles they play in creating a healthy world.
The Big Draw
28 October 2023
Find some inner calm by sketching zentangles, share your best qualities with a hand portrait or create an alien with all kinds of senses – get your imagination and your pens working!
Fun Palaces
Saturday 7 October
Fantastic free activities from 11am-3pm! Make a mini kite, build your own games controller, construct a giant cardboard city, fashion a tiny terrarium, create your own pom-poms and more!
GLISTEN Fest
19 – 23 September 2023
A sparkly, sensory festival filled with light and sound. Our first GLISTEN Fest has been designed to ignite the senses, inspire creativity and create memories that can be shared with family, friends and carers.
Nature Machine
20 April – 1 September 2023
Inspired by Brew Projects’ trips to Derbyshire including their visits to the nearby Nine Ladies Stone Circle, the Nature Machine is full of accessible sensory experiences that visitors can touch as well as see and hear…
Public Open Exhibition
6 July – 1 September 2023
The 2023 Public Open Exhibition attracted disabled and non-disabled contemporary visual artists from across the UK. Selected pieces were part of the public exhibition at LEVEL Centre over the summer…
The Art That ‘Difference’ Makes
18 May – 18 June 2023
A month-long exhibition at Peak Village to celebrate Level being their Charity of the Year for 2023. The exhibition includes five diverse visual art exhibitions by Level artists including Making Faces, After I Died, Sick Gaze and Level In Layers…
Sensing Nature
12 Jan – 14 April 23
Sensing Nature is a mixture of silkscreen, mono and embossed prints by midlands-based artist Fae Kilburn. The exhibition documents Fae’s transition from partial-sight to blindness that will challenge people’s understanding of sight-loss.
PlayLAB
12 Jan – 14 April 2023
Play LAB by John Whall looks at the different ways of playing and what creative play means to individuals and groups, exploring an artistic journey that brings community made artwork to gallery audiences…
Performance Online
2021 – 4 April 23
Delivered by Artist and Facilitator Melody Sproates, Level makes Performance online is a series of workshops that explore creativity and expression for adults with Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)…
ARPS Immersive
8 September 2022 – 6 January 2023
Explore the subtle, contemplative interactions between a physical and virtual world in ARPS Immersive – a mixed media play space. ARPS invites visitors to move the 3D printed shapes on the play platform and watch the corresponding virtual…
Making Faces
8 September 22 – 6 January 23
Our Visual Art group, working with visual arts facilitator Helen Jackson, created a series of self portraits using collage. The exhibition showed work in progress along with a quote from each artist…
Adult Sensory Workshops
October – December 2022
Delivered by Artist and Facilitator Alfie Heffer, our Adult Sensory workshops offered six weeks of multi-sensory and interactive sessions for people with Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities…
Visual Arts Exhibition 2022
3 May – 2 September 2022
The 2022 Public Visual Arts open call has attracted disabled and non disabled contemporary visual artists across the UK. Selected pieces have been shortlisted by a panel of industry professionals to be part of the public exhibition at LEVEL…
The World Awaits You
3 May – 2 September 2022
Immerse yourself in an imagined alternate world from digital artist Ashley James Brown. The World Awaits You… A mysterious portal invites you to transport yourself into a fantastical landscape of colour and sound…
In the Mix: Remix
June & July 2022
In the Mix: Remix In the Mix: Remix is a playful and interactive experience for audiences with PMLD. In the Mix: Remix is a memorable sensory performance that explores connection and meaning through the use of sound, texture and colour…
After I Died
25 April – 30 June 2022
In 2017, Katie was given a book by a well-meaning relative, in response to their diagnosis with a serious chronic illness. Gated behind a strict regimen of extreme lifestyle changes and a prescription of positive thinking,…
Sick Gaze
2 February – 22 April 2022
The sick-gaze is an exploration of image making; a manifestation of the views, observations and contemplations both of and from the perspective of the sick body amongst domesticity. Reflections in the…
In the Mix
In the Mix is a playful collaborative installation by Darius Powell where visitors can explore a 360 degree space and use glowing spheres to trigger colour, pattern and sound.
HouseFound Symposium
The HouseFound Symposium on 2 March 2022 is a new conference on disability arts and access produced in collaboration with Artistic Associate Katie Walters and Radical Body.
Further Afield
Further Afield is a programme of scheduled live events, storytelling, tool-sharing for disabled artists and creatives living rurally across Derbyshire and those facing similar challenges across the UK.
Between Homes
360 Degree Digital Artwork by Ryan Heath, Hannah Evans, Michael Goodall, Tom Morley and David Salisbury.
Flying Under the Radar
Solène Guichard | Jordan Whitefield | Darcy Burrows
A beautiful film that explores the experiences of 24 women who have been diagnosed with autism in adulthood.
Visual Arts Exhibition
Various Artists, curated by Bella Milroy
Our first Open Exhibition reached new artists and audiences as we celebrated the creative experiences with, by and for disabled artists.
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