29th November - 21st December 2024
Opening event: Friday 29th November 6:00 - 8:00pm

Opening times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:30am - 4:30pm

Alan Salisbury | André Stitt | Aidan Myers | Angus Greenhalgh | Anya Ward | Casper White | Claire Ward | Ella J Wilding | Euros Rowlands | Fátima Santos | Graham P Jones | Gwilym Pearce Jones | Helen Cass | Imogen Marooney | Jack Valentine | James Moore | Jan Bennett | Jane Fox | Jonas Tew | Kate Shooter | Katherine Breaks | Lewis Prosser | Myles Laurence Mansfield | Nicole Baker Peterson | Pascal-Michel Dubois | Paula Maxwell | Rocio Bucheli | Robert Lawton | Rosa Nasr-Butler | Rose Sanderson | Ruth Peterson | Sid Lloyd | Wyn Mason

Antidote

The fast-approaching festive season can be a difficult time of year.  Worries about worldwide and domestic conflicts and inequalities are compounded by pressure to conform and celebrate at the darkest time of the year.

Anthropocene materialism ramps up, jeering in the face of our troubled planet.  The Patriarchy rages on, with little sign of abating. Familial and societal obligations pervade, whether welcome or not. Christmas can seem trite and weary.

And yet, and yet…. There is still room for creativity, humanity, humour, warmth, satire, wit, connection, playfulness, irony, spirit, the bizarre, alongside rage, grief and any number of alternative responses. Because, as we all know, art can and often does contain opposing and conflicting notions.

This open call exhibition was devised and curated by Jo Berry and Lisa Tustian