Westcountry Potters Association
To 9 May 2021, Riverside Gallery (online only until week beginning 12 April)
Jess Davies
13 February - 1 May (extended dates) 2021
Devon Guild Member, Jess Davies, presents a selection of reduction linocut prints exploring ways to express a landscape, rather than producing faithful representations. Her work has taken inspiration from contemporary Indigenous Australian artists and intuitively plays with shape, colour and printmaking techniques.
Art, Craft and Imagination: a peep into the world of puppets
23 January - 16 May 2021
An important exhibition of over 100 puppets from Devon, the UK and the world, showing the richness of this ancient craft.
Michelle Greenwood Brown
5 December 2020 - 31 January 2021
A selection of striking mosaics by Teignmouth based Devon Guild Member, Michelle Greenwood Brown.
Mike Tingle: the stuff of nonsense
10 October 2020 – 3 January 2021
Nonsense is an intrinsic part of British humour. This exhibition in Riverside Gallery is a celebration of all things nonsense through the eyes of printmaker Mike Tingle, and sponsored by Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and the cow who jumped over the moon.
Isolation Portraits
12 September - 1 November 2020
Isolation reduced our social lives to squares on a screen, representing the people and places we increasingly wished we could be with.
Devon Open Studios 2020
29 August - 4 October 2020
To celebrate Devon Open Studios 2020, Riverside Gallery is showing work by Devon Guild Members taking part in this acclaimed arts trail, and signposting to their venues.
Celia Smith
22 August - 11 October 2020
Celia Smith presents a solo exhibition of new wall based work depicting native British birds.
Old Skills New Ways
8 July - 31 August 2020 (extended dates)
Celebrating the Old Skills New Ways project, started to address the dramatic loss of making in schools and as a way to get children out of the classroom and connected with nature
Neogeographies
25 January - 1 March 2020
Helen Snell’s work is a response to the extraordinary drawings, paintings and prints that documented James Cook’s three voyages, notably the remarkable works by Sydney Parkinson, William Hodges and John Webber.
Journeyman
18 January - 8 March 2020
Journeyman is a project inspired by people who made their living on a bicycle. A journey from Lands End to John O’Groats was made on the Printing Bike. It followed the spine of Britain, seeking out craftspeople and printing postcards to celebrate their craft.