Through materials ranging from clay, words, film, fabrics, and live elements, a whole landscape or environment emerges. Within this physically temporary ecosystem, you are invited to forage and explore how systems and processes existing within our bodies and minds are akin to those that occur in nature.more
Illuminated by Katherine Lockett-Clark
Following on from her award winning work, A Bird in the Hand, Katherine is developing a series of photographic work which continues to examine the tender and symbiotic relationship between nature and humans. Illuminated explores the countryside at night; a hidden complex world full of magic, wonder and mystery. Shadows and light come together to create new ways of looking and connecting to ourselves and the world around us.
Katherine Lockett-Clark MFA is a photographic and visual artist, creative arts practitioner, writer... more
A collection of black and white film photographic prints by local North Devon artist George Rayner. This collection showcases Rayner's formative years as an artist, with a focus on themes of melancholy dreams. Often exploring his relationship with the environment through materialistic allegory in quiet landscapes with a gentle humour, while finding solace and serenity amidst the chaos of existence, through composition, light, and negative space. Rayner creates a sense of stillness that encourages contemplation, inviting viewers to delve into their own introspective landscapes. This... more
Erika Cann, Millie Laing-Tate and Laura Robertson bring their art practices together through a shared language which investigates our human relationship with the environment. Their trio exhibition, the foot sinks into it, has emerged from conversations about the fluidity of geology and the space in-between.
Both within their studios and outside in changing landscapes, the three artists explore movement, structural rigidity and the porosity of boundaries. Interactions within the ecosystem correspond to bodies and modes of making as materials intersect, squish, fold and touch... more
The GTS Summer Exhibition showcases the amazing creativity and artistic skills of GTS pupils across all years. Vibrant, diverse original ideas covering a variety of themes, including links between mental health and art, climate change and the environment, African culture and much more. GTS pupils have explored a range of different ideas experimenting with a variety of materials resulting in some inventive and original outcomes. Come and see for yourselves! Be a part of it as we invite you to vote on your favourite piece of artwork-with winning artists awarded from the public vote... more
Lost Landscapes
Hardwick paints large scale richly texture paintings. He uses a
combination of unconventional materials including plaster and soils
He paints edgeland enviroments around Royal Portbury and
Avonmouth Docks, where his studio is located
He paints this ever changing landscape, as well as the one he
remembers herding sheep by the estuary. Watching now long
scrapped ships escape to open sea
His paintings explore the sensibilities of these powerful elemental
places, exploring land use, feelings and memorymore
ART ON FRIDAY are a well established group of local artists based at The Plough in the
Gallery and meeting every second and fourth Friday in the month from 10.30am
to 2.00pm
The Exhibition will cover a diverse range of subjects and our themed section this
year is entitled ‘Exotic Animals’ with each member contributing a painting.
All exhibits for sale, at affordable prices.
Please contact Hazel Montgomerie – 01805 623757 /
hazel.montgomerie60@gmail.com for further info.more
ThePlough@StAnne's are proud to be programmed as 'The Centre of Excellence for Workshops' as part of The Barnstaple Arts Festival, Saturday 27 - Monday 29 May.
Selling Exhibition of our local workshop providers and makers, 10am - 4pm over the 3 days. (Cash payments only please).
Half-day workshops available to book. Details of which may be found in the 'Workshop Diary'.
Stone Carving demonstrations, throughout the festival (weather permitting!)
The title, ‘In-tuition’, describes the artists’ desire to learn, using sensitivity to nature and openness to the way that it might speak through us. Embracing magic as a space of intuition, connection and possibility. England is a land that has been subject to ‘capitalist sorcery’ for over 500 years; a psychic and bodily rift between people and the land resulting from the history of the Enclosures, the destruction of the Commons and the persecution of the Witches.
Great Torrington’s own history of the Commons dramatically inverts this story. An ‘area of waste called the Common’,... more
