Nature: Sensory is a project co-ordinated by artists Michelle Duxbury and Sam Metz. It centres alternative readings and understanding of landscape that are wider than the visual and incorporate other senses. The project responds creatively to disabled artists who have different bodyminds and who find joy in exploring green spaces with touch, sound, movement, taste and smell. It will profile disabled artists and support those that cannot access both green spaces and cultural spaces easily. In inviting disabled artists to create artwork responding to their sensory interpretation Nature: Sensory will create artwork that is beyond expected understanding of landscape. 

Disabled people often face many barriers to accessing nature, including lack of infrastructure, funding and adequate support. This project hopes to highlight this disparity and widen access to local green spaces by actively encouraging and supporting other disabled people to consider their own access through the sharing of the artists’ work, and to inspire new ways for them to interact with and respond to the landscape.

Nature: Sensory is funded with a Culture Grant from Wakefield Council, as part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024. The exhibition is also supported by The Art House.