Audio description tour for the exhibition Rights Cuts Action by Shape Arts

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Deaf Community Against Mainstream Political by Zoe Milner

DWP Deaths Make Me Sick by Vince Laws

Keith Armstrong Photography

Exhibition Introduction - Rights Cuts Action

Taking The PIP by Emma Bentley Fox

Disable the disabled by Ivan Riches

Security Jumper by Déa Neile-Hopton

Audio description of Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy exhibition wall text

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy 
4 October 2025 – 18 January 2026

Throughout her career, Betty Parsons (b. 1900, New York City, d. 1982, Long Island, New York, USA) created an extensive body of paintings and sculptures characterised by their bold, playful and expressive style. Sheer Energy is the first institutional survey exhibition of her work in Europe and traces the trajectory of her practice across five decades, from the 1930s to the 1980s. 

Parsons is primarily known as the visionary New York gallerist who significantly shaped twentieth-century art in the US through the Betty Parsons Gallery. Alongside her gallery career, Parsons maintained a rigorous artistic practice, working at weekends at her studio in Southold, Long Island. As she once observed in an interview: ‘When I’m painting in my studio…I forget the gallery entirely.’ This exhibition focuses on Parsons’ parallel practice of making and her ongoing pursuit to capture the fleeting qualities of her surroundings, which she described as the ‘sheer energy’ or ‘invisible presence’ of a situation.

Arranged through a loose chronology across both the Pavilion’s galleries, this exhibition highlights the cycles, returns and layers that are a fundamental part of the encounter with Parsons’ body of work. It is the ‘sheer energy’, the quality of life, that unfolds across her dynamic and capacious oeuvre, as she captured not what a place or event looked like, but what it made her feel. Parsons’ is a practice that resists periodisation; rather, it privileges the role of spontaneity and intuition in channelling momentary glimmers within the present. 

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy is curated by Joseph Constable, Head of Exhibitions, De La Warr Pavilion, and is realised in collaboration with The Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation, represented by Alison Jacques, London, and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. 


Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy (Wall Text) - Audio Description

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