We’re evolving, find out what 2022 holds for Participate
Participate Contemporary Artspace, like much of the world, is currently working quietly away on-line and at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. But work does go on with the artists still being artists.
We will be working on articles, videos and online events to bring our art to you while you can’t come to us, so please check back to the site and our social media regularly!
See our Blog for all our activities and Lockdown videos
Recent Exhibitions:
WINDOWS OF LIGHT
an exhibition by Participate Studio Artists to be viewed through the windows
SPRING 2021
Window art work by Jill Impey
Previous exhibitions:
The Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury and Participate Contemporary Artspace present
Second Sight: light through the trees
A virtual online exhibition ~ 9th – 24th February 2021
Responses to Darwin‘s later ruminations on the interrelationships of all life
’I like the poppies on the gate (painting) because I like poppies and gates – you can explore through gates. The poetry makes me look again at the pictures and reappraise them.
The hidden landscapes of Forge Mill’ show: Exploration is not dead in this town! Wonderful to be here and see this project. Thank you’’; ‘’The piece using needles to show hills/hammocks entertained me – very clever.
Fantastic, Andrew! There is fascinating depth in each piece, & it all works off the other pieces. I love the layers of representation & the combination of media.
anticipation of their collaboration exhibition project, An Undertaking, at St Chads Cathedral. Mentoring an arts collective in this manner highlighted the strength there is in collaboration and how it can enable a supportive and nurturing environment to empower change and development. From a curatorial perspective the benefit of being a mentor in this situation enabled a rich exchange of ideas and consideration, giving voice to the individual as well as the group. I find that mentoring artists outside of the exhibition and project programme that I curate for Oriel Davies is liberating in how it enables a sharp focus on developmental aspects of work and practice. It also allows for me to be introduced to a wider pool of artists as well as different organisations that the artists may be affiliated with.
Alex Boyd Jones, Oriel Davies Gallery Curator