Previous Exhibitions

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Tue 27 Jun 2023 to Sat 08 Jul 2023

Great Torrington School Summer Exhibition

 

The GTS Summer Exhibition showcases the amazing creativity and artistic skills of GTS pupils across all years. Vibrant, diverse original ideas covering a variety of themes, including links between mental health and art, climate change and the environment, African culture and much more. GTS pupils have explored a range of different ideas experimenting with a variety of materials resulting in some inventive and original outcomes. Come and see for yourselves! Be a part of it as we invite you to vote on your favourite piece of artwork-with winning artists awarded from the public vote... more

Sat 20 May 2023 to Sat 24 Jun 2023

Preview:
Sat 27 May 2023, 2:00pm

Lost Landscapes

Andrew Hardwick

Lost Landscapes

Hardwick paints large scale richly texture paintings. He uses a
combination of unconventional materials including plaster and soils
He paints edgeland enviroments around Royal Portbury and
Avonmouth Docks, where his studio is located
He paints this ever changing landscape, as well as the one he
remembers herding sheep by the estuary. Watching now long
scrapped ships escape to open sea
His paintings explore the sensibilities of these powerful elemental
places, exploring land use, feelings and memorymore

Sat 20 May 2023 to Sat 24 Jun 2023

Artist's Wall

Art on Friday

ART ON FRIDAY are a well established group of local artists based at The Plough in the
Gallery and meeting every second and fourth Friday in the month from 10.30am
to 2.00pm
The Exhibition will cover a diverse range of subjects and our themed section this
year is entitled ‘Exotic Animals’ with each member contributing a painting.
All exhibits for sale, at affordable prices.
Please contact Hazel Montgomerie – 01805 623757 /
hazel.montgomerie60@gmail.com for further info.more

Sat 27 May 2023 to Mon 29 May 2023

Barnstaple Arts Festival

Selling Exhibition

By ThePlough@StAnne's Workshop Providers

ThePlough@StAnne's are proud to be programmed as 'The Centre of Excellence for Workshops' as part of The Barnstaple Arts Festival, Saturday 27 - Monday 29 May.

Selling Exhibition of our local workshop providers and makers, 10am - 4pm over the 3 days. (Cash payments only please).

Half-day workshops available to book.  Details of which may be found in the 'Workshop Diary'.

Stone Carving demonstrations, throughout the festival (weather permitting!) 

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Tue 04 Apr 2023 to Tue 16 May 2023

Preview:
Tue 04 Apr 2023, 6:00pm

Artist's Wall

Still Moving live research space

Still Moving live research space

Still Moving will create a live research space which connects to the exhibition In-tuition and will reflect  conversations and encounters in and around Torrington - please feel welcome to interact with the objects - and let us know if you have suggestions or additional offerings. Currently featuring the work of  Katherine Lockett-Clark and a display of an ancient map of Great Torrington (exact date unkown) kindly leant by our Museum.

NB The displays will be taken down from May 5th until May 9th to allow Devon Sessions to transform the Foyer... more

Tue 04 Apr 2023 to Tue 16 May 2023

Preview:
Tue 04 Apr 2023, 6:00pm
Activate, from the series In-tuition, by Still Moving

In-tuition

Still Moving

The title, ‘In-tuition’, describes the artists’ desire to learn, using sensitivity to nature and openness to the way that it might speak through us. Embracing magic as a space of intuition, connection and possibility. England is a land that has been subject to ‘capitalist sorcery’ for over 500 years; a psychic and bodily rift between people and the land resulting from the history of the Enclosures, the destruction of the Commons and the persecution of the Witches. 

Great Torrington’s own history of the Commons dramatically inverts this story. An ‘area of waste called the Common’,... more

Sat 25 Feb 2023 to Fri 31 Mar 2023

Preview:
Sat 25 Feb 2023, 2:00pm

Compost

Laura Porter


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, which are often a response to the environments in which she works. 

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Intrinsically grounded in the traditions of craft and textiles art, Laura’s practice pushes back against an automated, digitised world and hierarchies of... more

Sat 14 Jan 2023 to Sat 18 Feb 2023

Some Tapestries from ‘The Witchcraft Series’

Anne Jackson

Originally inspired by the trials of “The Bideford Witches” in 1682, Anne Jackson is engaged in a continuing project, commemorating some of the women executed for witchcraft in England, Scotland & Europe; and considering the fears & metaphors surrounding the idea of “the witch”.

On Feb 1st at 2.30 there is a FREE  illustrated talk by Anne Jackson about her knotted tapestry work. She will tell the story of the development of ‘The Witchcraft Series’ of tapestries, originally inspired by the trials of the ‘Bideford Witches’, the last three women to be executed for witchcraft... more

Sat 14 Jan 2023 to Sat 18 Feb 2023

Artist's Wall

Grassroots girls

Amanda McCormack

Supported by an Arts Council England DYCP grant, photographer Amanda McCormack spent six months capturing images of Fremington FC’s female teams from the Wildcats, who start at 5 years old, to the women’s team aged 16 and up.
The project has been about more than just getting action shots says Amanda: “I wanted to show the strength and resilience of the girls' sport at grassroots level. I got much more than that. There have been many exciting moments but the quiet, off pitch scenes have also provided some beautiful images telling the story of what grassroots sport is all about.”... more

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