In this installation, Phil Root references history and memory, producing artworks through a process of intuitive layering and erasure of both physical and historical attributes.
Upon entering the galleries, the viewer is confronted with a number of large plywood boards that act as display structures on which the artist composes arrangements of images, drawings, and objects. Defaced coins, foggy landscapes, and other inclusions of absence and obscurity are layered and tied on with sail rope, offering an allusion to sea crossing and trade, and also to the use and exchange values of...
In this solo exhibition at Spacex, Scott King presents a body of recent work that deals almost exclusively with notions of public art and its role within urban regeneration.
Presented as a series of prints, Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan, 2014, employs humour to explore the astonishing power of public art that has long been recognised by both western governments and ‘big business’ alike. With increasingly large public sculptures being commissioned to ‘regenerate’ ailing post-industrial areas, King asks, ‘what if this strategy were employed in an attempt to turn around the...
A symposium, entitled 'Art of the Edgelands', will take place at the University of Exeter on Saturday 26th April.
Speakers will consider the significance of ‘edgelands’ and other marginal spaces, neither urban nor rural, as sites for artistic inquiry, and as cultural spaces.
A light lunch is also available if pre-booked via Eventbrite for £4.89.
The symposium, which will take place between the hours of 10am-4pm, is a free event, although booking is essential.
To book your place please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-art-of-the-edgelands-...
Visual artist and musician Mathew Sawyer will be performing and showcasing his work as part of 'White Male, 36 Years Old, Average Height, No Pets, Out of Shape and Anxious’ at the Spacex Gallery.
His work will be available to view from Saturday 17 May up until Saturday 12 July.
The exhibition will open at 4pm on Saturday 17 May and end at 6pm.
In ‘White Male, 36 Years Old, Average Height, No Pets, Out of Shape and Anxious’ artist and musician Mathew Sawyer presents new and existing documentary and conceptual artworks spanning the past fifteen years. Dry humour and...
The exhibition ‘Soft Estate’, the title of which derives from the Highways Agency term used to describe the natural habitats that have evolved along motorways and trunk roads, looks at how green borders offer a refuge for wildlife and a modern form of wilderness in the midst of intense urbanisation and agrochemical farming.
Artist and academic Edward Chell investigates these contemporary motorway landscapes, linking them to 18th century ideas of the picturesque to explore the interface between history, ecology, roads and travel through a series of new works.
This exhibition - Bettina Buck invites Marie Lund - marks the fourth and last in a series of exhibitions where artist Bettina Buck has invited a particular artist and practice into a close dialogue to explore common or shared interests. In different ways the exhibitions circle around notions of duration and change, the fragility and de-familiarisation of materials, and narrative structures.
Previous exhibitions include Bettina Buck invites Peggy Frank, 2012, All my mistakes I made for you: Bettina Buck invites Laure Prouvost, 2011, Solid Objects: Bettina Buck invites Sara Barker,...
All you need to plan for a fun-packed Bank Holiday weekend...
THEATRE
Vienna Festival Ballet: Sleeping Beauty Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange A classic fairy tale set to Tchaikovsky's magnificent score, stunning choreography, beautiful costumes, all combine to portray the struggle between good and evil. Tickets: £20 adult, £15 under 16s. Box office: 01392 665938. www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Theatre Open Day Saturday, 10am-4pm, Exeter Northcott Theatre If you've always wanted to go behind the scenes, now's your chance as the Exeter Northcott throws open...
For the past few weeks Saturday mornings at Spacex have been busy as Art Club children try out activities that link to their current exhibition. Children have made words with food, created wild, large-scale drawings and doodled imaginary creatures. Spacex was also helping to keep kids entertained this half term at their Big Draw event on 30th October.
If you think this sounds like fun, then there are still two Art Club sessions left on 10th and 17th November.
11am–1pm, ages 6–11, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
British artist Layla Curtis presents a solo exhibition of work at Spacex in central Exeter, including a new commission entitled Antipodes (working title), 2013 and Tong Tana, 2012. Curtis’s work has a focus on mapping and the ways we represent terrain and locate ourselves and our movements through space.
Layla Curtis received her BA Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art (1998) and her MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art (2000). Her work, featuring in collections including the Tate Collection, and the Government Art Collection, is exhibited widely.
Katy Dove: Thought Becomes Action Exhibition opening Saturday 9 March, 3–5pm. Katy Dove will be in conversation with artist and curator Andrew Bick from 4pm. British artist Katy Dove presents a selection of new and recent film and print based works at Spacex. Dove’s work can be interpreted as a kind of aesthetic essentialism, or the distillation of the everyday into fundamental shapes, sounds and colours.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a new film work titled Meaning in Action (2013). The starting point for the film is the idea that like in choreography, meaning exists in...
