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Artist and writer based in Exeter, interested in contemporary fine art practice.
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Megan Calver has been standing in her garden at dawn, holding up a yolky-yellow pole almost as tall as her house. She’s been using it to mark a period of attention to birdsong: "The song is the flag, the colour that the pole hopes to Read on…
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
25 - 28 March 2008
What role might an artist play in a museum show commemorating the 1807 act to abolish slavery? ‘Human Cargo’ sees interventions by five contemporary artists that challenge an apparently objective account of the transatlantic slave Read on…
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
22 September – 24 November
Haldon is a working forest: a scene of constant death and renewal as timber is felled and trees replanted. In the midst of it all, Peter J Evans looks like a man preparing his own coffin. Using only hand tools, he's planing a large block of lime Read on…
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
From making photographs and sound recordings to unravelling our own DNA, we increasingly understand the world by reducing it to a string of ones and zeroes. Encoding and decoding, digitising and processing. Peter J Evans seems both fascinated and Read on…
Spacex, Exeter
19 May – 14 July
According to modern myth, if the entire population of China jumped at the same time, the force would be sufficient to shift the earth out of its usual orbit. In Der Gelbe Stuhl – an installation by Vienna collective Mahony in ‘Slow’ Read on…
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
20 January – 19 March
On 28 July, Jordan McKenzie performed At Arms Length in Exeter, prior to the opening of his exhibition Vitruvian: Drawing Works at Spacex. On a hot Friday afternoon, Jordan McKenzie manhandles a white wooden cube through the Read on…
Exeter, Spacex
7 July 2006 to 9 September 2006
Dragged from the forest to the manicured lawns of Haldon Belvedere, a broken beech branch takes on new life as a kayagum: a Korean stringed instrument. Artist Seung-hyun Ko has hollowed out this six-metre limb and strung it with fishing line, Read on…
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World,
Haldon Belvedere, Exeter
14 August – 30 October
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