Art Work Exeter presents: Pile Up! Worlds of Stuff

What is falling off and out of our modern day trading systems – the big pieces and the tiny molecules? How do we know what’s useful and valuable and what is waste? What has our wastefulness to do with how we have historically traded across cultures and between nations, and how is our productive discarding re-making us and everything else on the planet?

For over 300 years Exeter Custom House was a place for the weighing, measuring, counting and assessing of goods and materials from across the globe. Join us at the Custom House throughout April, May and June for programme of art, talks and activities that creatively measure and value our contemporary worlds of stuff and explore how they are piling up!

Artist-led Workshops

Artists Louise Ashcroft, Farmer Glitch and Freya Gabie are working with the staff team from Exeter City Council’s Materials Reclamation Facility and a range of other experts to make a series of brand new artworks for the Pile Up! exhibition launching 10th June at Exeter Custom House.

Join them in turning waste into wonder – learn some new skills and contribute to the artworks yourselves at one of our artist-led workshops.

Workshop: Storm Machine 1
Saturday 12 April (11am – 1pm and 1.30pm – 3.30pm)
Using junk to make improvised instruments, you’ll create and record sonic landscapes about the world of waste and weather. With Louise Ashcroft and Farmer Glitch.
Exeter Custom House
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Workshop: Thicket
Sunday 13 April (10.30am – 1pm and 1.30pm – 4.00pm)
Print a plant with Freya Gable. Uncover some of the overlooked indicator plants growing around Exeter’s historic quayside and make eco-friendly prints.
Exeter Custom House
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Workshop: Storm Machine 2
Saturday 10 May (11am – 1pm and 1.30pm – 3.30pm)
Bring scrap materials to life with electronics and give old devices a new life as storm bringers. With Louise Ashcroft and Farmer Glitch.
Co-Create, Haven Banks.
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