Press Release
Title: ‘#ProjectSpace’
Unit 4, Milsom Place, Bath.
Open to Public: Tues 17th – Sat 28th April
Opening Hours: Weekdays and Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am – 4pm
Private View: Fri 27th 6 – 8pm
Following the success of their first group show at Bath Spa University’s Dartmouth Avenue Campus, eight contemporary artists are to showcase their work at Milsom Place with an exhibition entitled #ProjectSpace. Running from 17th to 28th April #ProjectSpace seeks to open up a wider conversation on issues not usually seen in contemporary art today.
“We see this as a real opportunity to engage with the public and to show them that contemporary art can take on big issues” says exhibiting artist Sophia Sample.
“Our work ranges in topics from surveillance and the Arab Spring, to pills and parenthood” added Kate Banahan.
With work ranging from photography to painting, sound art to drawing, and video to installation art, this exhibition shows the extensive and diverse range of interests and disciplines explored by these emerging artists.
From Handley-Merricks’ sound piece documenting the nature of prolonged and extensive medical pill taking, to Wilmshursts’ photography which questions the ethics and aesthetics of looking. To the problems of subjective representation – Samples’ paintings that follow the Western World’s reaction to the uprisings in the Middle East, Jones’ drawings that explore the way in which the repeated drawn line can signify three dimensional space and Howards’ video exploring the demands and pressures society places on young working mothers.
Participating Artists:
Kate Banahan, Amy Jones, Hannah Wilmshurst, Sophia Sample, Mikayla Howard, Sue Handley-Merrick, Sophie Cowan, Vanessa Bowden
I have also bound a handmade book for visitors to comment on the exhibition.
