Join the artist on a short walk through the streets of the city, pausing to read aloud extracts of the text which accompanies the exhibition.

Artist Harriet Bowman will lead a short walk through the city centre, pausing at several points to read aloud short extracts of text that include excerpts from Daisy Hildyard’s text, Vehicle Portrait (which accompanies Bowman’s current Phoenix Gallery exhibition), the artist’s own writing and passages by other writers who have influenced her practice.

The walk will involve moderate exercise at a gentle pace to suit all participants with frequent stops along the short route. However, please note that it will include some access by steps and stairways.

We estimate a total duration of between 1-2 hours.

Please dress for the weather conditions and consider bringing a water bottle and snacks.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Maybe they had an urgent call is an exhibition of new work in sculpture, photography and text by Bristol-based artist Harriet Bowman.

The exhibition unfolds through motifs of collision, slippage and rupture, a layering and juxtaposing a range of materials that include ceramic, metal, glass and rubber. Throughout the exhibition, Bowman pushes her materials to the edge of their capabilities, repurposing and transforming them to explore their cyclical, often hidden relationships to each other.

The exhibition’s title speculates on the motives of two men, encountered once while visiting a classic car show, who abruptly left their café table when the artist began breastfeeding her child. Bowman’s photographs, taken on the same day, act as a departure point for engagement with her interest in the fallibility of the body and its vulnerability to chance, accident and collision.

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VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX