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

Altered Images
Jonathan Price and Janet Sainsbury

1st May - 19th June
Evening celebration: Friday 1st May, 5-7pm

Showing together for the first time, textile artist Jonathan Price and painter Janet Sainsbury use the exhibition to reflect on crossovers and links between the individual practices of two artists who share a household; what might be mutualistic and what might be seen as parasitic.

Jonathan’s recycled textile hangings incorporate found materials, new fabrics and most significantly for this exhibition, Janet’s discarded paint rags. The oil paint rags bring deeply saturated and suffused colours, altering the sense of depth and surface, and bringing an embodied sense of haptic intervention and history to the fore.

Painting on hessian represents a new strand in Janet’s practice. Using this rough textured material brings challenges; some globs of paint stay on the surface and some are absorbed into the open weave of the fabric. The effect finds echoes in Jonathan’s hangings where light is both absorbed and reflected, and materials float or sink into the surfaces of the work.

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