SOFT: Quay Arts Biennial Exhibition

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Every 2 years, Quay Arts invites emerging and professional artists from across the UK to submit artworks to be a part of our themed OPEN Exhibition; with this year's theme being 'SOFT'.

SOFT gathers the work of young, emerging, and established artists in a curated group show exploring the titular theme.

The exhibitors have approached the theme in a multitude of ways, primarily through the plastic arts to present two and three-dimensional outcomes.

Motifs of state change are present; the hardening of (folded and torn) materials once fired, to the controlled shaping and slumping of pliable fibres and synthetic compounds, through to the softening of relationships, with self and others.

The body features within SOFT, referencing internal, cyclical change, and the outer form; how we carry ourselves and the armour we wear. Together with clothing – deconstructed, re-worked and re-purposed into sculptural statements that thoughtfully explore personal / familial histories.

Much here is slowly conceived, and softly made.

For further information regarding this exhibition visit the Quay Arts website.