TRACTION PROJECT SPACE

Traction is an artist-led project space developed by artist/curator Erika Cann. The gallery's focus is to develop ideas and to provide experience and support for emerging artists, showcasing high quality, critically engaged, contemporary visual art to a diverse audience in Exeter’s city centre.

The street-facing window gallery is situated within EP Sidwell St (184-187 Sidwell St, Exeter) and is supported by Exeter Phoenix and Positive Light Projects.

Set in the left hand side of the building's windows, the gallery provides a flexible space to test new ideas and present work in all formats, in a 24/7 accessible location.

current and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

PORTALs: Laura Hopes

24 July - 18 September

Dr Laura Hopes is an artist, writer, researcher and lecturer. Her research focuses upon the implicit relationship between climate change and colonisation, especially extractive or agricultural land practices. She is invested in the methodologies and ethics of friendship and vulnerability, seeing these as approachable models for relationships to place.

As part of the collective Still Moving and through collaboration with academics and experts in diverse fields, her expanded practice encompasses participation, film, performance and installation. She often brings others into her practice as participants, collaborators and experts, and works with heritage land practices, agricultural byproducts, environmental imbalances and industrial structures to question systems of earthly survival and engage people in ecological action.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Uneven Graining: George Rayner (image credit: George Rayner)

Being, in touch: Erika Cann, Millie Laing-Tate and Laura Robertson

Altered Images: Jonathan Price and Janet Sainsbury