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From October 18-20, Plymouth will transform into a vibrant hub for diverse art exhibitions as Plymouth Art Weekender makes its long-awaited return! Throughout the city, you'll discover an array of installations, exhibitions, workshops, and more, all celebrating the incredible talents of artists.
To help you make the most of your weekend, we’ve compiled a list of events happening around Plymouth. Get ready to explore!
Jump to: The Box | City Centre | Mutley | Barbican, Hoe & Eastside | Royal William Yard | Stonehouse | Stoke
The Box
Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 10am – 5pm
This major new exhibition at The Box brings together three artists who, although working more than 200 years apart, are connected through their close observation of nature and skilful use of materials.
At The Box experience a two-screen film by artist Paul Rooney which explores the idea of home during a time of conflict. ‘Broken Token’ has involved Plymouth veterans, creatives and West Country folk singer Hannah Martin.
Displayed across multiple spaces at The Box, this celebration of 200 years of Devonport explores its complex history and delves into the city’s archives. It includes a brand new commission by filmmakers Naresh Kaushal and Jamie Harper.
Saturday 5pm – 10pm. This is an 18+ event.
Head to The Box to enjoy a performance of Jeremy Deller’s seminal work ‘Acid Brass’ (1997) by the Camborne Town Brass Band, conducted by Simon Dobson, followed by an afterparty featuring DJs from across the country, including Jon Dasilva who had a residency at the Hacienda in the 1990s.
City Centre
Gullerobics
Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October 12-1.30pm: Old Town Square & roaming further around the city centre.
Step into the webbed feet of a gull with this quirky exercise routine! Join in on three fun routines inspired by the life of a seagull—stretch your wings, scour the streets for cuisine, and soar through the skies in this unique, fun-filled session.
Graffiti in progress
Saturday 19 October & Sunday 20 October from 10am: Bedford Way
Witness graffiti artist Spray Saint transform walls into a vibrant work of art. If you have noticed a small piece of quirky art in an unloved area, or an amazing mural on a wall in Plymouth, then the chances are that it is a Plymouth Artists Together project!
Plymouth Artists Together has worked since 2020 to produce legal street art and galleries in public spaces all over Plymouth.
Still Moving – Everyone you’re looking at is also you
A re-installation of materials used in the series of illuminated text sculptures, originally installed by Still Moving at multiple locations Including at COP 26- Glasgow, COP27- Sharm El-Sheikh, G7 Summit- Cornwall.
Here, they are used to present, in the centenary year of his birth, the words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. As a city Plymouth can embody community cohesion and we believe this phrase emphasises that.
‘Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you’ve got to remember is what you’re looking at is also you. Everyone you’re looking at is also you. You could be that person.’
Follow the Dragons Guided Walk
Sunday 2-4pm
Join Manifest artists Louise Rabey and Gabi Marcellus-Temple for a guided walk where you’ll play their point and click adventure game ‘Follow the Dragons’. Each route follows the way a disabled person travels between the venues for the New Contemporaries show, with a few stops along the way!
SOAK Live Art
Saturday 7-10pm
SOAK are delighted to present an evening of bold new performances by Southwest artists as part of the Plymouth Art Weekender at The House! Expect a luscious line-up of live art, moving image, experimental music and the spoken word.
PLACE
‘Place’ presents a graphic response to the experience of being present on Dartmoor. The exhibition from Foundation Diploma Students at Arts University Plymouth aims to bring a sense of this relationship between artist and landscape to the public through large scale frosted decals of the riso print experiments created in response to their time on the moor. The work is exhibited only to the street, there is no entry to the building for the public. Palace Studios 2 Buckwell Street, Plymouth (24 hr public access)
DIY DIGITAL
Friday 11am– 5pm, Saturday 11am – 5pm, Sunday 11am – 5pm
10 Plymouth-based artists explore how we intentionally and unintentionally involve digital technology into our own everyday lives and creative practice. We ask how do we generate, store and process data and make it into something new? Come to Grow Plymouth to join in the conversation!
Beyond Objects – Materiality at the Edge of Making
Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday 9am – 5pm
Making Futures 2024 at Arts University Plymouth and St Lukes, The Box, will explore craft encounters with current material innovations where artists, artisans, designers and others work across disciplines and communities toward a more equitable, sustainable and resilient world.
This is an academic conference.
Canvas – New contemporary gallery arriving in Plymouth
Friday 11.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 11.30am – 4.30pm and Sunday 12.30pm – 3.30pm
A new locally curated gallery, Canvas shows contemporary fine art, photography and sculpture.
Mutley
Creative Halloween Decorations Workshop
Green Space, Saturday 2pm - 4pm
Join us for a spook-tacular Halloween Collage Decoration Workshop! Unleash your creativity and get into the Halloween spirit by crafting unique decorations using an array of collage materials. This hands-on workshop is perfect for all ages and all skill levels.
Ten years of Printmaking: Richard Kenton Webb
Artmill Gallery & Framing Centre, Friday 9am - 4pm and Saturday 10am - 2pm
This exhibition brings together the work of 10 years of intensive printmaking. Pioneering new techniques, using the same pigments used in his paintings, the results are unique, beautiful and extraordinary.
Tenuis
6 Lipson Terrace, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
‘Tenuis’ features work by Stuart J Young, Eila Goldhahn, and Jamie Mills. The exhibition traverses drawing, sculpture, artefact, and moving image to share a common voice in the exploration of gesture, material status, and ritual as a means of contemplation and transformation.
Moments
64 Neath Road LA South, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am- 5pm
Olivia K will be showcasing a series of painting in the heart of her own home, a cosy warm studio in her small backyard. The paintings display a meaning of past moments that she has captured in nature and displayed it onto a canvas.
Barbican, The Hoe & Eastside
Empowered Artist Workshop by ARTstrology
St Saviours Hall, Sunday 1pm - 3pm
Unlock the power of your creative practice by using your birth chart.
Learn to focus in on your unique strengths and attract visibility and money into your art practice. This hands-on workshop will show you methods that you can start using straight away.
The Citadel Gallery
205 Citadel Road East, Friday 7pm - 10pm, Saturday 11pm - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
A pop-up gallery of post-degree fine art and illustrative works.
Locating the Archive: PAC @ PAW
Looe Street Gallery, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
Penrose and Piccini transform 37 Looe Street into an open archive.
Emma Sprawson
Boston Tea Party, Friday 9am - 5pm and Saturday 8am - 5pm
An exhibition of Emma’s work at the Boston Tea Party.
Plymouth Illustrators Drink and Draw
Minerva Cafe, Saturday 3pm - 5pm
A meet-up for illustrators in Plymouth with a super friendly drink and draw social. This event is open to illustrators and artists of any and all levels and skill!
Wild Wild Wild Wilful Words
Minerva Cafe, Sunday 5pm - 9.30pm
CAMP presents: Wild Wild Wild Wilful Words. An Evening of Spoken word poetry and Other Open Mic Surprises. Entry is free but a donation is recommended on the door. Please feel free to bring your wildest, most daring words. Sign up on the night for Open Mic. Come be wilful.
Royal William Yard
Lucent
New Cooperage Building, Friday 10am - 4pm , Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm
An installation of light and glass, exploring the beauty and physics of light in a dance of glass, space, time and perception.
Colour Shroud
New Cooperage Building, Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sunday 10am - 5pm
Works are about expanded dreaming in the face of daily limitations.
Uprooted
New Cooperage Building, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
An installation, using the detritus of consumer society, exploring what it means to be uprooted, either in the natural world or as a result of human activity. Visitor are invited to contribute their thought and take an active part in developing the artwork.
Working Drawings
New Cooperage Building, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
A new, and ongoing body of work, ‘working drawings’ on leftover or found pieces of plasterboard. Composites of drawings, offcuts of cut paper, found images and other marks made in a variety of ways. Parts added, move and removed, working drawings, drawings made while working, by working.
Ink to Oil: The Portrait Series
New Cooperage Building, Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm
A collection of large oil paintings representing Plymouth’s diverse communities. Subjects are connected by body art, each sharing their unique story. Featuring sea swimmers, veterans, and more, the series embraces varying abilities, body shapes, heritage, and genders.
A’s & Ampersands Baby
The Factory Cooperage, Saturday 11am - 4pm and Sunday 11am - 4pm
An exhibition of ongoing experimental typographic research.
Where Do We go From Here?
Ocean Studios, Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm
CAMP artists look at the provocation Where Do We go From Here? a response to making art in a changing world.
Platemaking Exhibition
Upstairs meeting room, Ocean Studios, Friday 5pm - 8pm, Saturday 9am - 4pm and Sunday 10:00am - 3pm
This exhibition showcases a variety of forms of plates used in printmaking: objects which hold much of the craft and skill exerted by the printmaker, which are often overlooked despite their beauty.
Jump In The Print Run!
Ocean Studios, The Factory Cooperage and more spaces around the Royal Willaim Yard. Saturday 11.30am - 3.30pm
Colossal’s pop-up printmaking event brings inky goodness to Ocean Studios and locations around the Royal William Yard.
Plymouth Art Weekender with RAMP
Ocean City Studios, Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm
A vibrant showcase of what happens behind the scenes at Ocean Studios and across our creative city.
ARTEMIS X RAMP (PART 2)
Ocean Studios, The Factory Cooperage.
A diverse and vibrant exhibition featuring artwork by Plymouth-based artists.
britZArt
Melville Building, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
Installation by Dorron Britz.
INSATIABLE
Melville Building, Saturday 11am - 4pm and Sunday 11am - 4pm
Installation by Judy Harington. The installation comprises semi-translucent plastic packaging body casts The Insatiables featuring the branding from items we throw away everyday, set against the haunting backdrop of the short film and soundtrack Unnatural Tides.
Studio Paradiso
Melville Building, Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sunday 10am - 5pm
Studio Paradiso features artists from across studio spaces in Plymouth. Brought together under one roof, the exhibition dissolves the walls between studios and opens up new dialogues between the artists and their work. Showcasing a small snapshot of artists found in the city, Studio Paradiso is a celebration of the dynamism and calibre of creativity in Plymouth.
Open Studio & Large Scale Print Collaboration
Barton’s Print Room, Studio G15, Ocean Studios. Friday 2pm - 4pm, Saturday 11am - 2pm and Sunday 11am- 2pm
Visit the newly set up Intaglio Print Studio. Whether you’re curious or experienced, this is a chance to connect with printmaking and be part of something creative.
Stonehouse
After the Riots
KARST, Saturday 9.30am - 4pm
As part of the New Contemporaries public programme, Radical Ecology are bringing people together at KARST – including migrant support workers, youth workers and contemporary artists – to discuss the far-right anti-immigrant riots that took place in Plymouth (and elsewhere) in August, exploring what role art has in relation to these events.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024
KARST, Friday 11am - 5pm and Saturday 11am - 5pm
New Contemporaries is an annual survey exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and learning programmes. This exhibition features 35 artists from across the UK.
Museum of Roadside Magic
KARST, Friday 11am - 5pm and Saturday 11am - 5pm
A travelling archive, documenting the use of magical practice, folk custom and plant knowledge, in vehicular maintenance, repair and journey making
Love Community Banner
Café Momus, Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 10am - 6pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm
Display of the touring Love Community banner which that has so far been thoroughly enjoyed by the local groups such as Horticultural Therapy Trust, Wonderzoo and Plym make & stitch.
Dartmoor Collective Autumn Exhibition
Manor Street Galleries, Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sunday 10am - 5pm
One of the biggest and most eclectic exhibitions of contemporary Dartmoor-inspired art of the year. 25 artists, 80 artworks, showcasing a diverse range of styles and media from painting to printmaking, photography and drawing. Check website for details of workshops, artist talks and Q&As. Free entry, café and bar.
After Modigliani
Manor Street Galleries and Café Momus, Friday 10am - 10pm , Saturday 10am - 10pm and Sunday 9.30am - 10pm
A display of 30+ Modigliani Paintings. Some paintings are life size copies and some are in the style go Modigliani.
Plymouth Skies and Other Wonders
The Coach House, Friday 11am - 4pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm and Sunday 11am - 4pm
An open studio exhibition of paintings of the Plymouth sky, along with a selection of Visionary Paintings.
Anything You Can Think Of / Everything You Can Imagine
Back entrance of Plymouth Scraptore, Open 24/7
A new artwork by LOW PROFILE made in partnership with Plymouth Scrapstore and Big Ups. The work celebrates Plymouth Scrapstore which supports people to be creative in inventive and resourceful ways whilst offering an alternative model for consumption based on rethinking ‘waste’ as a resource, demonstrating that sustainable systems of exchange are possible (and vital).
Moving Waters & Alright Mate
Leadworks, Sunday 10.30am - 12pm
In partnership with the men’s mental health charity Alright Mate, we will be screening a unique selection of films from our recent call out that in some way speak of or hint at our relationship with ourselves, through the medium of water.
Do What You Love
Leadworks, Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
“Do What You Love” is the title of this selection of work from members of the Plymouth Arts Club. The title reflects the passion these members have for creating art at the club, in the studio and en plein air and is publicly shared in this display.
The Liminal Lady
Leadworks, Sunday 2pm- 3:30pm
Join singer-songwriter Kate Ferguson as she introduces a character, ‘The Liminal Lady’ exploring how music and imagination can heal.
Comic Workshop with Kitty McEwan
The Plot, Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Want to create your own comic? Come down to The Plot on Union Street and join a drop-in workshop with comic and webtoon artist Kitty McEwan, creator of The Stonehouse Detectives and Gurt Noodles.
No sew hair accessories making
BB Excel Designs, Saturday 11am- 12pm
Making hair accessories out of beautiful African fabrics.
Saturday Art & Craft Crew
The Plot, Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Saturday Art & Craft Workshop with Anna & Lou.
Plymake & Stitch
Union Corner, Sunday 12pm - 4pm
Arts and Crafts weekly Sunday session – Arts weekender special.
Open Day
Unit 2, Riverside Business Park, Sunday 11am - 5pm
The Crafts Workshop will be hosting another spectacular open day! Come and watch our professional metalworkers provide demonstrations in blacksmithing and maybe even have a go yourself! Some of our artists will have open studios for the day and we will have some amazing artwork for sale from local creatives.
Moving, Swirling Waters
Immersive Dome, Market Hall, Saturday 1pm - 2pm and Sunday 1pm - 2pm
Selected films from over 95 international submissions all on the theme of water. A silent swirl through a myriad ways to think about water.
Artist exhibition at the immersive dome Market Hall
Market Hall, Saturday 11am - 12pm and Sunday 11am - 12pm
Artists from AUP and Plymouth come together to re imagine and explore their work in our 360 Immersive Dome as part of PAW weekend. Original artwork will be on display in the main hall.
Stoke
Live painting demonstration
88 Albert Road, Stoke, Friday 11.30am - 4.30pm, Saturday 12.30pm - 4.30pm and Sunday 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Rosie will be giving live painting demonstrations throughout the weekend and will encourage visitor participation. She will be explaining her techniques and offering advice on materials and processes. Expect a fun filled time full of joyful artiness.
Blockhouse Folk: Photo Census
The Village Hub, Devonport, open 24/7
During 2024, Josh Greet & Haidee Dampney have been creating an archive of pictures & words from over 140 people in Stoke, Morice Town and Ford, to be looked back on for years to come. Working with local businesses, we’re displaying selected portraits from the project across Stoke Village.
HYPE CRU presents: DayTime Karaoke
The Masonic Inn, Devonport, Sunday 3pm - 6pm
Join HYPE CRU collective’s DayTime Karaoke sing-along. We’re here to help you have the Time Of Your Life while you Ride On Time into your own Manic Monday. Expect all things friendly, silly, weird and DIY – decor, costumes, classics & deep cuts. Old hands, nervous & first-time singers are all very welcome!
Unexpected Crossings
Second floor, Almanac Café, Friday 1pm - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 4pm
Exhibition exploring shared experiences of “foreignness”, the artists work uses allegory, narrative, and storytelling through 3D, 2D works, ceramics, textiles, and industrial elements.
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