{"id":10,"date":"2025-01-12T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:40:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-text-color has-background has-huge-font-size\" style=\"color:#010101;background-color:#ffdd44;min-height:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NS-hands.png&apos;);background-size:cover;\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:0px;width:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer has-20vmax-min-height\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide-wrap\" data-block=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-left is-style-uppercase has-normal-font-size\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">ABOUT<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide-wrap\" data-block=\"columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-palette-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-493a259f93eadb7feab4704695517b05\">Nature: Sensory<strong> <\/strong>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-9680ed6c71535b1ac111c4dc5de0e0e5\">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\u2019 work, and to inspire new ways for them to interact with and respond to the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-0072d04c0a9706390b51712bb3c9f1b1\">Nature: Sensory is funded with a Culture Grant from Wakefield Council, as part of Our Year &#8211; Wakefield District 2024. The exhibition is also supported by The Art House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide-wrap\" data-block=\"pullquote\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-default\"><blockquote><p>[Nature: Sensory] has enabled me to explore new green spaces in the Wakefield area and to experience new habitats and environments. It has been good to be given \u2018permission to explore\u2019 the area. This has reminded me how important to my creative practice are working outdoors and site visits. This has encouraged me to build regular site-visits back into my schedule. This has been very valuable to my practice.<\/p><cite>NATURE: SENSORY ARTIST<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill-element has-palette-3-color has-palette-2-background-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-bottom:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-3-color has-text-color\">Join us for an exhibition at the University of Leeds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer has-40vmin-min-height\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">8th to 13th April  2025<br>Project Space, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Leeds LS2 9JT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">You are invited to celebrate the exhibition and join the artists &#8216;In Conversation with Yorkshire Sculpture Interntional&#8217; on Wednesday 9 April 2025 from 5pm to 8pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image credit: Jessie Davies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/exhibition-info\/\">More Info<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84 size-full\" style=\"object-position:31% 54%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-regrowth-from-fire_03-2048x1460.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nABOUT 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.&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"link-more\" aria-label=\"Continue reading About\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro-header-overlaid-dark.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","entry-type-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturesensory.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}