AG Creatives - Echoes of Earth

Organised by : Oxmarket Contemporary

https://www.oxmarket.org/exhibitions/ag-creatives-echoes-of-earth

AG Creatives is a group made up of artists and makers, several of whom have been working professionally in their chosen genre for decades, others who are returning to art after time out. For all of the artists, creating art is an urge that just cant be ignored. Self-taught or formally educated art is what brought the group together, sharing what they create with the public to not only enable them to carry on creating by financing their lives, expressing their passions, but it also helps them to validate their work.

For AG Creatives the idea of exhibiting at Oxmarket was something that would be great to do, something that might give the group a new creative focus. The group run the Artisan Gallery in North Street in Chichester as a cooperative, each member displaying work there usually with no connection to the exhibition next to them. The idea of AG Creatives exhibiting together in a loosely themed exhibition was a great challenge, giving many of the group the impetus to design something different.

In Echoes of Earth at Oxmarket there will be work from 21 of AG Creatives core artists and makers each inspired in their own way by the theme. Each piece of art in the exhibition has come about with influence, perhaps quite loosely, of echoes felt from the world. Echoes of Earth could be a call to attune the artists to what the Earth is telling themthrough its patterns, silences, and a closer look at the materials gleaned from it. Urging them to listen to that emotion, whether its ancestral myths, symbolism or ecological.