Art

This art and poetry exhibition is a collaboration between the Devon Mental Health Alliance and the Devon Partnership Trust’s Eastern Rehabilitation and Recovery Community Mental Health Team.

Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

Working with discarded clothing – a material that carries with it cyclical histories of land, worker, consumer and waste – Laura breaks down the garments to create a raw material that is re-formed into solid structures, often in response to the environments in which she works.

The exhibition presents two series of free-standing, double-sided paintings which run through both gallery spaces. Each work is an interconnected component within a wider meta-narrative, employing a conventional painted surface while revealing a notational and diaristic reverse. The exposed backs of the canvases embed elements of text, sculpture, and film, collaged across their hand-made, repurposed timber stretchers, serving to expand the paintings’ interpretive possibilities.

Join artist Grant Foster who will be in conversation with Dr Chantal Powell, a South-West based artist, educator and curator, whose work is informed by a PhD in psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory.

Exeter Phoenix is pleased to host Loves Things an art fair where over 30 of the most exciting (and nicest) creatives and makers from across the South West and beyond are gathered together to show and sell their work.

The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and on whom?