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Towards New Worlds Digital

Dis_Place, Disability Arts Online | May-Dec 2025

“The largest exhibition of art by disabled people this century is about to go on a virtual tour”

— The Canary

Towards New Worlds Digital was a configuration of the exhibition Towards New Worlds, first presented at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern art (MIMA) from 19 July 2024 – 16 February 2025.

Forming the pilot project for Disability Arts Online’s new digital gallery space, dis_place, the work of thirteen artists from the original Towards New Worlds exhibition at MIMA was reformatted for a digital context, which ran from 21 May – 19 December 2025.

Exhibiting artists: Richard Butchins, Leah Clements, Joanne Coates, Małgorzata Dawidek, Jade de Montserrat, Colin Hambrook, Molly Martin, Louise McLachlan, Aaron McPeake, Sam Metz, Carrie Ravenscroft, Christopher Samuel, Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen.

(L-R) Louise Machlachlan, Mōtae (2019); Molly Martin, Misshapen States (2021-2); Jade de Montserrat, The movement became a slow awakening (2017–21), Her body, coded, coloured and contained (2021), Listening translated as empathy in the world that valued breath (2021), Everything that is said and not heard, said and unsaid (2021).

Leah Clements, Collapse 2021; Gwen John Portrait of a Young Woman (1900-1939), Malgorzata Dawidek, The Other Shore(2024).

(L-R) Carrie Ravenscroft, Sugarcoated Feminine Rage (2024); Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen Sleeves for Paralysed Hand (2015), Battle of Scarcity of Resources (2017); Colin Hambrook, Mount Caburn I (2006-8), Mount Caburn II (2006-8), Mount Caburn III (2022–3), Whitby (2022–3).

(L-R) Joanne Coates, Bedding up (Laborious)(2024); Christopher Samuel, Our Confession (Tanya) (2023); Richard Butchins Light of the world (2021); Christopher Samuel Our Confession (Tony) (2023); Not My Projection (2017), I Know I’ve Been Away (2019), Side Entrance (2022).

(L-R) Christopher Samuel, Our Confession (Ruth) (2023); I Have The Key (2023), The Blue Bus (2022); Our Confession (Georgia) (2023); Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, Reflector of Living Will (2018); Christopher Samuel, Our Confession (Robert) (2023).

(L – R) Aaron McPeake Same, Same but Different (2017); Iceland Landscape 13 (2012), Iceland Landscape (2019) and Iceland Landscape 10 2011; Sam Metz, Instability (2024

Filmed curator’s tour