# Event Details - **Event Name**: In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join artist Leah Clements and writer Jenn Ashworth, who will be discussing Clements’ new film Apophenia.About this EventThe film, inspired by Ashworth’s publication Notes Made While Falling, centres the voice of Ashworth in exploring her experience of apophenia, a psychological state that is characterised by seeing patterns and connections where there may be none in unrelated subjects and objects.Leah and Jenn will use Apophenia as a starting point to talk about the complex, uncertain, physical, and psychological process of finding meaning in the experience of illness and disability that they and other crips have ('crip' is a political reclaiming by some disability activists of the derogatory label ‘cripple’).Showing at Exchange Place from 18 June – 1 Aug, Apophenia is a new co-commission and the first major solo exhibition in the UK by London-based artist Leah Clements, produced by Arts Catalyst, Sheffield and Peer Gallery, London.Please note, we will be making an audio recording of this conversation.Content warning: the conversation may include challenging or sensitive topics including mental health, psychosis, disability, and birth trauma. works primarily in moving image, photography and sculpture, to embody moments of transcendence. Her work is concerned with the relationship between psychological, emotional, and physical states, often through personal accounts of unusual or hard-to-articulate experiences. Her practice also focuses on sickness/cripness/disability in art, and how real and imaginary realms can operate as radical spaces to address collective experiences. is an English writer whose novels include A Kind of Intimacy, The Friday Gospels, and Fell. Notes Made While Falling, an experimental memoir and a critical exploration of traumatised and sickened selves in fiction and film, is a series of essays that inspired the new film Apophenia by visual Artist Leah Clements. In 2018 Ashworth was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its 40 Under 40 initiative and is currently a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.Access InformationDoors open at 5.45pm. The event will start at 6pm and finish by 7pm. Please enter through the doors on Arundel Gate, opposite Sheffield Hallam University. The entrance from the Winter Gardens is closed after hours.There is unreserved seating. Please get in touch via events@sheffieldmuseums.org.uk if you require a specific space reserved, such as a wheelchair space.There are toilets, including an accessible toilet, on the lower ground floor.The Millennium Gallery has a fully accessible lift and is step free throughout.You’re welcome to step out of the room at any time if you need to. Please speak to a member of staff for access to a separate quiet space.Audience members will be invited to ask questions at the end of Leah and Jenn’s conversation, but participation is not mandatory.This event will be interpreted in British Sign Language.You can see more information about accessibility at the Millennium Gallery here: sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/millennium-gallery/accessibilityImage credit: Leah Clements, Apophenia, (2026), HD Video, 23 minutes. Commissioned and produced by Peer, London and Arts Catalyst, Sheffield. Courtesy of the artist. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sheffield/in-conversation-leah-clements-and-jenn-ashworth/100001989371001217 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, exhibitions, health-wellness, mental-health - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Millennium Gallery - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Sheffield - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Millennium Gallery - **lat**: 53.379502 - **long**: -1.466765 - **full address**: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/1bc8f61a6d8ca9016e4a2c924acd07f0d301bac44a9bae6378ad21da286815b5-rimg-w1200-h600-dc14191d-gmir.jpg?v=1778961723 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth being held? - **A:** In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth takes place on Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth? - **A:** In Conversation: Leah Clements & Jenn Ashworth is organized by Museums Sheffield. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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