We are delighted to host a new exhibition celebrating those who attend creative art groups as part of Platform’s Taking Part programme and is part of Made in Easterhouse 20:26, marking Platform’s 20th birthday.
We invited Pearl Kinnear, lead artist for the groups who meet on Tuesdays, to make the community led exhibition with the group members. With participants age ranging from 11 to 88, the collection of work celebrates everyone’s signature style and takes full advantage of the large-scale exhibition wall at The Bridge, with large digital prints on display, bringing it alive with colour, texture and shape.
Pearl and artist Joanna Twaites chose works from the portfolios of class participants and each artwork you see is a close up of a detailed area from each selected piece of work. These signature marks have been scaled up to magnify the beauty of each person’s own way of drawing and painting, developed in the classes over the past year.
In tandem with this, each detailed area of an artwork has been overlayed with a drawing or plan of inside or outside The Bridge building. Pearl chose to show the merger of community and building, the importance of each to the other, as well as the intrinsic mark left on each organisation from every person that chooses to walk through our door, be it artist, participant or audience member.
This is a celebration of the ever-growing creative community that meet at Platform. All the people that work within, or use the building, make it what it is. Platform is more than bricks and mortar, it is its own community.
Accompanying the exhibition are shared messages from everyone who has an artwork on display - read some of these messages here in a Latest post about the exhibition.
View the original artworks that Pearl developed into new works as part of slide show put together by Joanne here on our website page, view below.
Every Tuesday, we host adult classes in the afternoon from 1pm – 4pm, Painting Club and Art Factory. From 5pm - 6.30pm, NuGen takes place, a dedicated session for young people aged 11 yrs. For more information, click here.
