Some examples of the art created during the What If? and Art First projects will be brought together in a free exhibition of What If?
A mixture of original banners, printed images and posters, and digital art
At the Engine Room 14-16 September 10.30am – 3.30pm.
If you look around the streets of Bridgwater during July and August 2022 you’ll see images around you addressing the question What if?
Local residents have been working with four professional artists to explore these questions and create art which is now on display on advertising spaces around Bridgwater and Highbridge as well as on the buses of Somerset. Look around and see if you can spot them!
Artists Karl, Jem, Sharon and Rich led a series of creative writing and image-making workshops and sessions to come up with What if? Questions and potential answers – challenging people in Bridgwater to draw on their imagination and ideas to create something wonderful for the whole community to see and share.
Macro (extremely close-up) photography images created in workshops led by artist Richard Tomlinson have been magnified to an enormous size to be exhibited on the side of Bridgwater’s Mercure Hotel, and Bedrock Furniture store. Writers Karl Bevis and Sharon Jacksties worked with people across different generations, including local school children, to create poems that appear outside shops, on telephone kiosks, and on a video screen at the Engine Room. Some of these poems are accompanied by images created by visual artist Jem Dick in partnership with Sharon and community members – look out for these around town and also on the rear of buses across Sedgemoor.
The art works will be displayed on the streets of Bridgwater during July and August and then come together in an exhibition at the Engine Room in Bridgwater 14-16 September, and the various Sedgemoor libraries where some of the works were created.
Click each profile image to see their bios and workshop dates.