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We’ve been looking at @camp_membership’s Before & After; Fragments of Origin, chatting to curators Dana Aala and Charlotte Squire about this thought-provoking exhibition exploring our relationship with the world around us.

And with @plymartwkndr just around the corner, now is the perfect time to discover it for yourself!

✨ There’s even more happening over the weekend, with live performances, poetry and some wonderfully unusual creative experiences:

🌦️ Saturday 17 October
12pm – @lauradenning2 presents The Tarot of the Weather, exploring weather, kinship and our connection to nature through a fascinating set of cards.

2pm – Mark Leahy @gmarkleahy performs Cream of the Crop, combining spoken word, movement and performance to explore climate, agriculture and our relationship with the natural world.

🌿 Sunday 18 October
3pm – Poetry from Caroline Collingridge, reflecting on ancient wisdom and the impact of climate change.

The exhibition is already open, so don’t wait until the weekend to visit! But if you’re heading out to explore Plymouth Art Weekender, make sure this one is on your list.

📅 On until Sunday 18 October – last chance this weekend!

🎥 Watch our chat with Dana and Charlotte for a little taste of what to expect.

#PlymouthArtWeekender #PlymouthCulture #WhatsOnPlymouth #PlymouthArt #ContemporaryArt PlymouthCreatives ArtWeekender taken in Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth Uni by @whatson_plymculture

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2 days ago

🌪️ Calling all storm seekers, weather feelers and body shakers!

Something a little different is coming to Plymouth this Saturday as a part of @plymartwkndr

We caught up with Nuria from @soakliveart to find out what’s in store for an evening of bold, playful and experimental performance at The House.

Expect an exciting mix of dance, sound, movement, light and a little unpredictability as five artists explore the body, work, identity and our changing climate.

From Chinese Classical Dance and immersive soundscapes to playful tarot readings for uncertain times, this is your chance to experience something unexpected, discover incredible creative talent and support the South West’s live art scene.

📍 The House, Plymouth
📅 Saturday 17 October
⏰ 7pm–10.30pm

@noon_arts_collective
@lauradenning2
@baiaglandina

🎟️ Tickets are available now! Grab yours, bring a friend and come with an open mind. You never quite know what might happen!

Find tickets via SOAK Live Art’s event page.

#SOAKLiveArt #PlymouthCulture #WhatsOnPlymouth #PlymouthEvents taken in The House by @whatson_plymculture

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5 days ago

I'm very excited to be hosting a collaborative live reading of Tarot of the Weather on Saturday 17th October as part of the exhibition Before and After, during Plymouth Art Weekender.

There are packs of cards - The Tarot of the Weather - complete with booklet that walks you through their meanings FOR SALE! They are £10 each, so come along to the reading, and bring a tenner - cash only.

See you on Saturday 17th! by @whatson_plymculture

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15 days ago

📣Introducing our first artist performing at our next SOAK Live Art @lauradenning2!

🗓️ Sat 17th Oct
⏰ 7.30pm-10.00pm (doors 7pm)
📍The House, PL4 8AA
🎟️ from £8
🔗in bio to book and for more info.

Laura Denning is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and academic whose practice merges geography and ecology. Her work emphasises watery relationality, climate change, and deep-time environments. She explores entanglements between ecologies and environments and ways in which the human and the more-than-human intersect.

At SOAK, Laura will perform ‘A Tarot of the Weather’- a live reading for our collective futures: A card reading can seem random and beyond our control, just like the weather. Perhaps it’s true that we get the cards, and the weather, we deserve. This performance is for weather-bodies and busy-bodies, players who are curious about their past, present and future. This reading is for the weather-feelers who recognise that bodies are sensory data collectors and understand that this is not a forecast. The tarot deck includes some new, circular, wild cards. Choose your weather wisely!

Our recent events have sold out so get your 🎟️ before they're gone ✨. Capacity for this event is limited.

SOAK Live Art is curated and run by @srblissett and @the_nuria_bonet_3000.
The House is a fully accessible venue.

If you have any access requirements or questions, email: soakliveart@gmail.com.

#soakliveart #spokenword #PAW2026 #madeinplymouth #whatsonplymouth #livemusicplymouth #performanceart #liveperformance taken in The House by @whatson_plymculture

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a month ago

The Devon herbarium cope returns to moor.

Made out of untreated remnant linen, with cyan prints

The copes are garments for thinking and reflection but also movement.

Working with @stillpoints @asometimesproject @lauradenning @sarahsidders and #alanendacott

#Archaeostrata #ContemporaryArt #TextileArt #ArchaeologyAndArt #DeepTime #Dartmoor #Somerset #InstallationArt #Cyanotype #LinenArt #ZeroWasteArt #artresidency by @whatson_plymculture

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2 months ago

Airfield at dawn, Somerset by @whatson_plymculture

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3 months ago

A quick sketch by @whatson_plymculture

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4 months ago

Sibling Rivalry in Adulthood (we're all made of the same stuff but turn out very differently. Threads that bind also entangle). Just an idea by @whatson_plymculture

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4 months ago

Something I made for a collaborative, performative future project centred on Dartmoor, happening next year by @whatson_plymculture

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4 months ago

I am very excited to be taking part in a small Imagining Godzilla exhibition that is being organized at Kulturhus Björkboda https://kubu.fi/ in Kemiösaari, South West Finland. The exhibition opens on 4th July and runs until 2nd August 2026. During the residency on the Baltic sea last summer I used Polaroid to explore the idea of Body as Location. by @whatson_plymculture

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4 months ago

I'm excited to have my film 'Complicit' included in
BATHING PLACES

37 LOOE STREET, PLYMOUTH

PREVIEW: 12 JUNE, 18.00-21.30

OPEN: THURS-SAT, FROM 13 JUNE THROUGH THE SUMMER

37 Looe Street welcomes you to Bathing Places, an exhibition that explores our relationships with the places in which we swim – from local authority lidos to inland rivers to cliff-cut pools to the open sea to the Hilton Continental.

It’s thought that the UK has lost 500 swimming pools since 2010: 34,859 square metres of water space. 76% of that has been lost since 2020. Swim England predicts that, at that rate of decline, by the end of the decade England’s pool provision will be down to 2,468, from a peak of 4,540 in 2009. Most of those closed are local authority pools built in the 1960s and ‘70s which either need major investment or rebuilding. At the same time, the UK’s sewage crisis continues unchecked: Surfers Against Sewage estimate one million sewage discharges were made across the UK in 2024. Not even half of inland waters given bathing water status in 2024 met minimum standards.

And… the art of swimming – and its cousins, bathing and bobbing – is an imperative entanglement with place for humans and animals alike. As historian Nicholas Orme writes, “There have probably been swimmers in Britain as long as there have been people.” Plymouth’s coast, its coastal pools, and its institutional baths and leisure centres have been offering liquid pleasure and relief to its citizens forever. This relationship with water has become a hallmark of the city’s artistic output.

We have invited artists to celebrate, reclaim, investigate, critique, explore, abstract, and enjoy bathing and its places. As well as investigations of the material – concrete and metal boundaries and infrastructures; water, stones, rocks, mud, sand and plastic – the exhibition considers inclusion and exclusion, flows of power and temporalities, movement, proximity and fluidity of bodies – human and other-than – by, in, and under water.

Bathing Places opens on 12 June and runs until the end of the lido’s bathing season in mid-September.
With @37looestreet by @whatson_plymculture

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4 months ago

Inspired by pub signs, or signs of pub signs, like the remnants visible in finger posts across Devon, such as The Sign of the Owl near Wrangaton, this sculpture is nearing completion. Other local finger posts include Memory Cross, Trumpeter Cross, and, simply, Short. The birds on my sign are a distillation of the corvids that regularly descend into my garden, treating it much like a pub! Thanks to the practical problem solving mind of my technical manager (and live in heartthrob, who is also partial to pubs!) my sign will soon be swinging in the breeze. by @whatson_plymculture

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