TRACTION PROJECT SPACE

Traction is a new artist-led space developed by artist/curator Erika Cann, supported and housed within Positive Light Projects, on Exeter’s Sidwell St.

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

The gallery's focus is to develop ideas and to provide experience and support for young and emerging artists, showcasing high quality, critically engaged, contemporary visual art to a diverse audience in Exeter city centre.

The aim is to provide opportunities to artists at the early stages of their career, not only to exhibit but to access advice and guidance on the curation, marketing and presentation of their practice. The first year’s programme will stage 5-6 exhibitions, curated by invitation or selected by open call and will include an exhibiting opportunity for a Foundation Diploma graduate from Exeter College, selected during their end of year exhibition.

This kind of targeted support is a key part of the ethos of the space, complimenting that of the wider community support ethos of Positive Light Projects.

current and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

SITE OFFICE
ADAM GARRATT

27 February - 24 April

Adam Garratt’s practice is primarily based in sculpture, installation and print and has evolved around constraints of space, the use of material and repetitious making processes. His work is often made with reclaimed materials and is specifically made to expand into an installation when it is not neatly folded, stacked and rolled for storage and re-use in the garden shed.

For his installation in Traction Project Space, Adam has observed the forms and states of flux that happen in a building site office, and explores the different stages his materials go through when transformed from raw material to sculpture.

"Set up a site office. Use the images taken of a site office and make studies from the space. Mix in sculptural forms and recreations of objects found in the office. Show a space in flux, the contractors will be back to reclaim these items. Fluorescent yellow and orange stand out from the white space. The shelves store a series of found and constructed forms. Coat hooks hold the raw material. Wall displays show the component parts of the deconstructed work-wear pinned to carpet tiles. Taking the form of a pinned insect museum display."

Adam’s Website and Instagram

PAST EXHIBITIONS

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

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

TRACTION PROJECT SPACE

current and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

SITE OFFICEADAM GARRATT

PAST EXHIBITIONS

SITE OFFICE
ADAM GARRATT