Art & Exhibitions

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.

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.