PRESS RELEASE for immediate release June 2nd 2022
This year’s Visual Arts category is particularly strong at Buxton Fringe with stimulating exhibitions and trails offering art in every medium.
After its Covid-friendly Art on the Railings event last year, Buxton Art Trail is back with a bang as a host of artists exhibit in their studios, in shops and in large, central ‘hub’ locations in town.
Large exhibitions at the Fringe meanwhile include Peak District Artisans in the exciting location of the beautiful Assembly Rooms in the Crescent. Not far away, High Peak Artists will be at the Octagon in the Pavilion Gardens with stands, workshops and demonstrations of a whole range of techniques from silk painting to printmaking.
A similar diversity is in evidence at the Green Man Gallery where the resident artists celebrate Dancing Water, Weathered Stone through paintings, photography, textiles, ceramics and more. Intrepid visitors will want to follow the trail upstairs to the Murder Stone room where the artists of textile group Uncanny Stitch present a haunting exhibition.
The long-established Derbyshire Open Exhibition attracting professional and amateur artists of all ages is an eagerly anticipated highlight of the Buxton Museum’s summer programme. Visitors to the museum can also enjoy Ann Bates’s Echoes: Reverberations Across Millennia revealing how ancient practices of honouring the dead can be relevant today, as well as From the Land of the Great Spirit, a selection of Native American and First Nations material. This is the last opportunity to see these objects before they are repatriated to indigenous communities. Also at the museum is Tipping Points: Explorations in liminal landscapes, an exhibition by Scottish artist Sarah Keast combining printing, painting and drawing.
Several solo shows offer rich rewards. Geoff Shoults exhibits his photography inspired by Winter Woods at Jo Royles whilst in Art at Paula’s Pad, artist Paula Hobdey presents her weird and wonderful birds and abstracts in mixed media at her home and studio off Macclesfield Road - with refreshments available!
There is plenty of 3D art on display this year. In the Pavilion Gardens Foyer, Lindsey Piper has created Scintillation - A Sculpture in DVDs. This aerial acrobat sculpture promises to produce mesmerising rainbows of colour. The Pavilion Gardens themselves will host Art Up Close’s I Spy With My Little Eye Sculpture Trail with artworks nestling in the trees.
Family fun is guaranteed with the Buxton Flowerpot Trail with maps available from the Pump Room, Poole’s Cavern and The Green Man Gallery or via www.funnywonders.org.uk.
Says Marketing officer Stephanie Billen: “The Fringe’s Visual Arts section has Tardis-like qualities with many more artists involved than is immediately apparent from the number of events. There is so much to see and enjoy and it is accessible to all.”
Further information on Fringe events is available at www.buxtonfringe.org.uk, in the printed programme or on the free to download Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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