Experimental Use of Space 2019: CONNECTIONS

Curators Margaret Preston and Roderick Scott invited artists to explore a wide range of “Connections” – physical, emotional, artificial or real – in creating site-specific works for display in the South Wing, the Courtyard and Garden.  Some 30 artists, including six art students, contributed 50 works in 44 positions in the exhibition spaces.  The show included two well-received performance pieces. Some 548 people visited the exhibition across Festival week.

Artists included: Amy Benzy, Margaret Preston, April Pressley, Ruth Kent, Rosy Wood, Aleksandra Kusowska, Sadie Main, Anne Marquiss, Susan Cassie, Rhiannon Cambell, Lorna Purvis, Hugh Stewart, Lynne Meanie, Jean Paul Baptiste, Isla Barrow, John Barrow, Mags Gray, Kate Steenhauer, Irene Hunter, Rafael Bernal Coates, Hannah Fraser, Moira Downie, Rachael Rutherford, Iain McEwan and Roderick Scott.