ARTIST OPEN CALL: ‘NEW ONLY : ONLY NEW’ - Curated by Chloë Dowsett
I am incredibly excited to announce I have been chosen as a curator for a group exhibition during Fringe Arts Bath 2026! Having been a participating artist twice for the festival, I am delighted to be back curating!
Applications are open until April 10th, all details including the full brief and submission form can be found here:
‘New only : only new’ is part of Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2026 (FaB), with 17 exhibition & project call-outs forming the FaB Festival programme, 22 May - 6 June 2026 in Bath, UK. Discover them all here fringeartsbath.co.uk
FaB is a test-bed for new ideas, a platform for early-career curators & artists, and those who prefer to operate outside of the gallery-based arts scene. FaB aims to raise the profile of contemporary visual arts in Bath and beyond,
FaB festival is a free, 2 week festival putting art in unusual places in unexpected ways for people to happen across and interact with, with exhibitions, interventions and events based in Bath, UK.
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My current practise:
Drawing for me houses primary marks and impulse. This instinctive movement often presides thought and consideration therefore can birth the truest marks. I like to look at convention unconventionally and have always been fascinated with evidence of social movement and encounters. Drawing can come in all forms and is not dictated by a pencil or material.
This type of work holds spontaneity and movement yet focuses on real references and events. Physically traditional yet robotic in process my work often carries a very systematic linear aesthetic. This can be represented not only in drawing in a classic sense but digitally and sometimes sculpturally.
Culture and routines often link to repetition and patterns. This social system of documenting daily life holds heavy relevance to changing technologies echoing the initial rules of late 1970's Fluxus. This has been the main influence of all my work since studying the Ideologies at Uni.