in conversation:
Creative Practice in the Home
Saturday 9 May 2026
about
In partnership between Compton Verney and Disability Arts in Shropshire (DASH), a home-based artist has been supported and commissioned to produce a piece of work responding to Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists.
Join
- the home-based exhibiting artist, Grace Currie
- Creative Producer at DASH, Lucy Mounfield
- and the curator of Troublemakers and Prophets, Ila Colley
to discuss the exhibited artwork and Grace’s experiences of a creative practice within the home, and how this relates to Elizabeth Allen.
This event may include a discussion of a road traffic accident and include details of a brain injury and other related physical injuries.
It may touch on themes such as hospitalisation, pain and medication.
prices & information
This is a hybrid event, with the choice of attending in person or online.
In person Free with day admission or membership.
Online Free.
DASH are offering 10 bursaries to cover the cost of your travel and admission to Compton Verney, up to the value of £150. See below for instructions on how to apply.
If you choose to attend online, the link will be sent to you a few days before the event take place.
Please let us know any access needs when booking.
This event is part of DASH’s Home Based Situated Practice programme that provides opportunities and support for visual artists who encounter access barriers to bricks-and-mortar galleries.
About Grace Currie
Grace Currie is an emerging artist based in Shropshire in the West Midlands, originally from Manchester.
In 2020 Grace graduated from Chester University School of Art with a First-Class Honours degree in Fine art. Her powerful and huge figurative paintings in her Final Show, The Identity Series, invite you into her world to meet its strange inhabitants – more or less human – clearly on the way to the same anarchic party.
In 2010, aged 17, Grace’s life hung by a thread after a serious traffic accident resulted in severe brain injury leaving her with interrelating disabilities and a neurodivergent view of the world. Her work often uses these to challenge viewers; to reflect her resistance to the reductive label ‘disabled’ or the disorientating sense of the fractured self that 24/7 care engenders.
Grace has exhibited nationally at HOME Gallery, Manchester; The Hive, Shrewsbury; The Qube Gallery, Oswestry; Level Centre, Rowsley, where she was the 1st Prize Winner; a recent solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Space (CASC) Chester and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester’s partner gallery space in 2024. In 2025 Grace has had exhibitions at HOME Gallery, Level Centre, Shrewsbury Art Gallery and a solo exhibition ‘In and Out of Grace (oh, it’s what you do to me)’ at Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury.
Timings
2pm – Welcome and introductions
2.15pm – In conversation with Lucy Mounfield and Ila Colley
2.35pm – Break
2.40pm – Screening of Potions For My Animated Life
2.45pm – In conversation with Grace Currie, Grace will be attending virtually
3.10pm – Break
3.15pm – Audience Q&A
3.30pm – Event finishes
bursaries
DASH is a disabled-led organisation that works with and supports Disabled, Deaf and Neurodivergent artists and audiences.
DASH has 10 bursaries available, each to the value of up to £150.
These bursaries are to cover the cost of your admission to Compton Verney and travel to the venue, and are redeemable on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
To receive a bursary
- email info@dasharts.org
- type ‘HBSP Event Bursary’ in the subject line
- Include your name and a contact email address
Troublemakers
and
Prophets
Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists
Sat 28 Mar – Mon 31 Aug 26
