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An Exhibition by Dr Victoria Claire D.A (Hon)

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The Art House, Wakefield — 18 October to 1 November 2025

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Experience art through touch, sound, memory, and emotion.

The Sense of Sculpture invites you to step into a world beyond sight — a world where sculpture becomes a language of sensation, memory, and embodied knowing. Developed from my original 2018 exhibition Blind: A Sixth Sense, this new and deeply personal body of work continues to challenge how we experience and understand art, accessibility, and perception.

Through complete darkness, visitors are guided to explore sculptural form through their hands, hearing, and intuition. The exhibition encourages you to rediscover your other senses and to notice how your body and memory engage with space, texture, and emotion when vision is removed.

As part of my PhD research, The Sense of Sculpture expands the dialogue around blindness, sensory cognition, and what I call blindness anthropology — a way of understanding the world through non-visual intelligence. This exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on how overreliance on sight can distract us from deeper embodied awareness and emotional connection.

Alongside the exhibition, visitors can participate in a workshop entitled Developing an Enhanced Embodied Cognition Using a Sensory Approach — a blindfolded, hands-on clay experience inviting you to sculpt from feeling rather than seeing. This immersive activity encourages you to “see” through your senses, memory, and internal imagination.

The Sense of Sculpture invites you to step beyond vision — to feel, remember, and imagine your own sense of being in the world.

Free admission | Tactile and accessible experience for all visitors

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Dr Victoria Claire D.A (Hon)