DASH extends Future Curators network

Disabled-led visual arts charity DASH is extending its Future Curators programme.

Cornwall’s Newlyn Art Gallery & Exchange, Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery and Sheffield’s Arts Catalyst will join the network’s three existing members this year.

The three new organisations will each host a disabled curator for a fifteen-month residency, resulting in a new exhibition or body of work produced by each curator.

DASH says its Future Curators Network aims to address deep-rooted inequality against disabled people in the visual arts sector.

Artistic Director Mike Layward says the programme now covers most parts of England: “We have high hopes for the Future Curators programme and the influence it will bring in diversifying the visual arts sector.”