residency

Preston Street Union: 13 October - 7 November

As part of his residency at Spacex artist and independent curator Trevor Pitt is setting up Preston Street Union - PSU an affiliation of artists from in and around Exeter that will come together over a five week period to explore collaboration as a strategy for artists making things and making things happen.

PSU will draw on and extend elements from Pitt’s previous project Cannon Hill Art School, and reference the work of influential artist and educator Josef Albers.

PSU is for visual artists: At any stage of their development, regardless of age or experience (although must...

En necromasse: an optimistic, fungal perspective on death and production

Event Date: 
08/05/2015 - 9:00am to 19/06/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Dartington Gallery, next to the Visitor Centre, Devon TQ9 6EL

Soil is a material on which the whole of civilzation depends. Along with clean air and fresh water, it is one of the fundamental components that support life on this planet. In today’s world soils are endangered due to increased neglect, leading them to become more contaminated and eroded - with surveys showing that 38% of soils in the South West England are substantially degraded. Looking deeper into the issue of value creation by recycling materials from the Dartington estate, artist-in-residence Debra Solomon examines the value of nature’s work in the rhizosphere - a narrow region of...