Stowage in the news and reviews

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Ben Langworthy & Scott Daniels in Stowage

Magnificient Morse Mints is installed in Otto Retro and Exeter Peace Shop and is best viewed after dark, when the two sweet jars start signalling to each other across the the road.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Buff Lancaster-Thomas in Stowage

Gimblejube (consisting of pins, a bee and a lead cast of a jelly baby) refers to the dangers of childhood obesity. It can be found in Rochelle's Curtains.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Jill Randall in Stowage

Jill Randall's Sheds of Rossendale - Log Cabin (a scale model of a shed in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire) has been placed in Devon Diecast Models.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Kwong Lee in Stowage

Kwong Lee's Emergency has been placed in Fantasy World, a fancy-dress hire and novelties shop.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

More images from Fore Street and New Bridge Street coming soon.

Gabrielle Hoad in Stowage

Gabrielle Hoad's Is and Was can currently be found in Holly Hemmings Herbalist. This business is relocating before the exhibition closes, so this work may be moving to another site.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Ben Cook in Stowage

Ben Cook’s interest in surf culture and the Cornish landscape finds a new outlet in Granite Jar, which is made of paint and surf wax. It's located in Moorland Rambler.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Steven Paige in Stowage

Steven Paige's piece Burnt Sugar can be found in Off the Hook, a clothing store. The jar has been engraved and filled with molasses. The engraved text describes the different stages of sugar as it is cooked.

Locations of other works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

John Maxwell Goodwin in Stowage

The first of a number of photos of work in situ in Fore Street and New Bridge Street.

This is You can take the ‘X’ out of Exeter, but you can’t take the Exeter out of the ‘X’ by John Maxwell Goodwin, a bisected, mirrored jar that has been placed in tma2, a hairdressing salon.

Anyone searching for the second piece in tma2, apologies, it's not yet arrived.

Locations of all the works can be found in the Stowage map and guide.

Launch of Stowage - 17th April 2010

There was a great turn-out for the launch event at Tuckers Hall, Fore Street - a 15th century guild hall associated with Exeter's once-prosperous wool trade. Artists from Devon, Cornwall and Manchester attended, along with staff from shops in Fore Street and New Bridge Street and other local businesses. We also had visitors from the Royal Albert Memorial Musuem, Spacex, Plymouth Arts Centre, OrganicArts and CCANW.

Food for thought

Big thanks to the following local producers for kindly donating food and drink to our opening event.

Traditional straw-pressed cider from Brimblecombe's Cider, Farrants Farm, Dunsford EX6 7BA
Master crafted beers from O'Hanlon's Brewery
Hand-fried potato chips from Burts Chips
Fine cheddar from Quickes Traditional Ltd
Wild garlic baguettes from Bread of Devon
Cheese biscuits from Ginny Lyons Catering

Thanks too, to Tuckers Hall for allowing us to host the launch event in style, making it a true celebration of local trade and creativity.

Putting everything in place

We started installing Stowage on 12 April, with some of the artists coming along to help with their own work. It's been a busy time so we don't have many photos, but the top picture shows Izzy Bright-Roberts of The Grimm North making final adjustments to her piece in Otto Retro, while the lower photo shows Megan Calver (right) discussing the position of her jar in Langans with Felicity Shillingford.

Getting the word out

We have had a write up and a tweet from Arts+Culture
Word is also spreading via our Facebook events page.