Three days of exhibitions, open studios, music and activity at Grow Plymouth, centred on the exhibition Totems for Troubling Times.
Grow Plymouth is hosting the Plymouth Art Weekender from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October, three days of exhibitions, open studios, music and activity centred on the exhibition Totems for Troubling Times. It's part of the city-wide celebration of Plymouth's visual arts, bringing together artists, organisations, independent spaces and communities across the city.
Totems for Troubling Times is a residency and evolving exhibition by the artist collective Room to Manoeuvre — Claire Gladstone, Shelley Hodgson and Tina Kutter — with around 20 guest artists. Their work blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the transactional, the sincere and the absurd, the everyday and the extraordinary. They deal in sculpture, assemblage, contemporary reliquaries, vending systems, altars and shrines, and ask audiences to consider the complex relationships between belief, value and exchange. It doesn't arrive as a finished show, but as work that grows under the visitors' gaze.
The weekend is part of Grow Plymouth's #DIYRESIDENCIES programme, which gives artists and collectives space to experiment and test new ideas. Grow Plymouth opened in 2021 in the city's cultural quarter, with eleven studios across the top four floors and a ground-floor Project Space that has hosted more than 30 pop-up exhibitions, community events and workshops; it belongs to the wider Grow Studios network of grassroots venues in Hackney Wick and Stratford.
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Entry is free. The weekend kicks off on Friday 16 October with a Ritual Celebration from 5.30pm to 8.30pm, followed by Open Studios on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October, 11am to 3pm. You'll find it at Grow Plymouth, 14 Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AQ.
