Sensory World

We are creating something exciting and ambitious for the learning disabled and neurodiverse community here in West Cumbria.

Sensory World is a playful experience exploring the senses. Through sniffing, seeing, listening and licking we’ll create an interconnected network of rooms to offer a dream-like space to immerse yourself into.

We’re working with disabled artist Natalie Sharp on this project. Natalie is originally from Wigton and her practice focuses on presenting live music in non-conventional settings, challenging existing frameworks and expectations. Natalie explores issues around gender and sexuality, pain and the body, pushing the parameters within a live setting. With her work covering lots of different areas – from film directing to makeup artist, sound designer to actor – she also calls herself an octopus artist or a janitor of art.

Sensory World looks to uncover and explore what cultural and creative experiences learning disabled and neurodiverse communities would like to take part in here in West Cumbria.

Learning disabled and neurodiverse communities are hugely underrepresented within the cultural provision of West Cumbria so our goal is to deliver a strand of work for this community that is regularly funded and grows with the interests of the local community. Sensory World is the first major project in this area of our work.