Mudface at Underground//Passage curated by A sometimes Project as part of Exeter Art Week artists showing Zixiang Zang, Frances Staniforth, Karen Abadie, Steve Cass, Miranda Whall, Laura Denning, Johgn Barben, Exeter Seed Bank, Jenny Mellings, Janie M McDonald, Charlotte Squire, Karen Howse
One hundred international artists showing in an art take-over in an underground car park. Four legs good, two legs bad riffs on themes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel Animal Farm in a 4 day festival of art music performance and dance, celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Pig.
My installation Lean Times is of a thin and dejected trio of textile pig-people in opposition to the bloated greedy pig so often portrayed.
Curated by Rebecca Feiner of Elements Gallery
photo Andy Keate
The GHost Tide, an exhibition exploring ghosts as an idea, programmed to coincide with Halloween , All Souls and the Day of the Dead, curated by GHost host artist curator Sarah Sparkes and CANAL Gallery founder Monika Bobinska. Showing the work of 30 uk and international artists.
Andrea G Art, Chris Boyd, Davies Monaghan & Klein, Gen Doy, Sarah Doyle, Graham Dunning, Diane Eagles, Andrew Ekins, Charlie Fox, Katie Goodwin, Kim Griffith, Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F Kerr, Rob Le Frenais, David Leapman, Liane Liang, Toby MacLennan, Laura Marker, Josie McCoy, Jane Millar, Output Arts, Miroslav Pomichal, Brothers Quay, Anne Robinson, Edwin Rostron, Matt Rowe, Sarah Sparkes, Charlotte Squire, Sara Trillo, Run Ting Tsai, Kate Walters, Patrick White, Heidi Wigmore, Neal Willis, Mary Jacob, Neda Zarfsaz
Invoking the spirit of the ancient Camberwell Fair and its promise of ‘Rare doings in Camberwell’, the Chutney Preserves artist collective open a one day health and beauty spa on Camberwell Green. Offering humorous range of surreal and exclusive artist created treatments to the public. the Chutney Preserves promise to deliver ‘beyond alternative care’ to the community.
Charlotte Squire presents her Feel Good Give Away – a selection of objects, books and etceteras that are free for visitors to take away, provided it is a gift for someone. That feel-good-feeling is passed on by making a drawing of the person it is for with their gift!! Also on the stall If Life Gives you Lemons homemade lemonade
8 artists probe the liminal state between reality and dreams where the imagination is held as if suspended . Visual connections are made through painting, collage, installation, film, ritual, photography, sculpture and drawing, with Jacquie Brown, Leonie Cronin, Rebecca Fortnum, Nicky Hirst, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Lucy Soni, Charlotte Squire and Kim Thornton.
The architectural atmosphere and history of this derelict house offer a multi-sensory experience. Breathing life into the subliminal world of innate awareness the artists translate these lucid dreams and thoughts into visible ‘actions’ in response to the building.
‘It is tempting to think that the real world and the world of dreams are totally separate.’ (Dr Susan Blackmore, Lucid Dreaming: Awake in your sleep?)
The philosopher Decartes believed that dreams are a sequence of experiences often similar to those we commonly have in waking life. Hobbes questioned this using the principle of coherence, we can think more critically in waking life and we know when we are awake as the absurdity is no longer there. Harnessing the power of conscious thought Dreaming Awake merges dreams with real life to suggest different hidden states.