Introducing Sue Lewry's Mobile Printmaking Machine 'Collosol'

Part of Open Studios, Grow Plymouth, 14 Drake Circus, PL4 8AQ
Sat 7 September, 11am-3pm
All Welcome, no need to book

After two years of development, artist Sue Lewry is excited to publicly reveal ‘Colossal’, as part of her week-long residency at the Open Studios at GROW on Sat 7 September, 11-3pm. www.suelewry.com @suelewry

Come see, and talk to the artist about ‘Colossal’, a mobile printmaking machine built to harness the power of print to engage and ignite creativity! 

Get hands-on and jump into the print run during two drop-in sessions: 12-12:30 PM and 1-1:30PM, to make a screen print designed by the artist. 

No prior experience is needed, and all ages are welcome!

This event is part of a wider open studio event at Grow Plymouth, where artists will be opening their doors to the public for the first time.

ABOUT GROW
GROW is located in the cultural quarter of Plymouth and has been creative home to over 15+ Plymouth-based artists since 2021. The top four floors of the building have been converted into studios and a coworking space and include painters, audio artists, printmakers, installation and socially engaged artists, as well as graphic an 3D designers.

The ground floor has been used as a project and event space and for pop-up residencies, where we work with creative and community partners to experiment and explore the building, its surroundings, heritage and future in terms of sustainability, inclusion and culture.

GROW STUDIO HOLDER ARTISTS

Aleksandra Sosnowska
Aleksandra’s art works is focused on the human body. Her work includes life drawings as well as portraits. She works directly from life and also from photographs. Her main media is oil paint, acrylic and oil pastels. @alo_art__

Amy Moores
Amy is a painter and sculptor based in Plymouth, Devon. She works primarily from sketchbook journals, documenting form, feeling and memory to develop into larger projects. @moores.amy.2/

Beverley Roach
Beverley is a multidisciplinary artist and maker investigating the embodied landscape within her practice. @beverley_roach

Chloe Georgakis
Chloe is a socially and environmentally engaged artist. She is one half of Future Meadows, a creative DesignMake duo, who collaborate with marine-focused organisations to create innovative and engaging experiences. She will be displaying images from previous projects, as well as studio experiments. Future Meadows Website @futuremeadows

Jordanna Greaves
Jordanna is a multidisplinary artist and curator whose socially engaged practice and playful visual work explores and reimagines conditions for alternate realities. Also, founder of cultural venue Grow Hackney and Grow Studios Plymouth. www.jordannagreaves.co.uk

Nate Studios
NATE Studio is a local creative studio specialising in fashion design, textile and homeware printing. The studio supports local artists, helping them transform their work into profitable products.

Polly Plouviez
Polly is a mixed media artist, whose work explores her own neurodiversity in relation to her painting practice. She consciously paints in both a limited palette of oil colours, to allow her to simply focus on the imagery.@pplouviez

Shiva King
Shiva is an artist and maker, specialising in multimedia abstract landscapes, and intricate driftwood carvings. @shivakingcreates

Skull + Bone Studios
Anthony and Scott are two creative animators working in stop motion, motion graphics and 3D animation. They both graduated from Arts Universtity Plymouth and are looking to create a hub for animation in the South West and want to build a studio where stop motion is at the forefront of thier animation projects.

STUDIO PL1
A fashion manufacturing studio based in Plymouth, founded and directed by Anna Masclans. We serve as a hub for fashion enthusiasts, local businesses, young designers and brands, offering a studio for sampling and production, workwear clothing and training programs. @studiopl1

Studio Wallop
A multifaceted creative studio that uses moving image, illustration, photography, and graphic design to tell compelling stories. Studiowallop.co.uk

Terry Flowers
Terry is a painter influenced by his experiences of the people and places of Plymouth, his family and the various trades he has worked in over the years. @terryflowerr

Will Harvey
Will Harvey is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. He works between digital and analog processes. He will be sharing some of his recent risograph prints and paintings. Will Harvey’s website @w.harvey

Zahra Khanum
Zahra is a British Bangladeshi painter/filmmaker who’s practice revolves around identity, place, memory, and migration. Khanum’s recent experimental work focuses on atypical experiences of diasporic identity, which is centred around South Asian women, reflecting on womanhood in British society. @zahrakhanum_

OPEN STUDIOS 2024
Grow Plymouth, 14 Drake Circus, PL4 8AQ
Sat 7 September, 11am-3pm
All Welcome, no need to book

GROW is located in the cultural quarter of Plymouth and has been creative home to over 15+ Plymouth-based artists since 2021. The top four floors of the building have been converted into studios and a coworking space and include painters, audio artists, printmakers, installation and socially engaged artists, as well as graphic an 3D designers.

The ground floor has been used as a project and event space and for pop-up residencies, where we work with creative and community partners to experiment and explore the building, its surroundings, heritage and future in terms of sustainability, inclusion and culture.

On Saturday 7 September (11am-3pm), the artists of the space will be opening their studios to show what goes on behind studio doors. Plus, artist-in-residence Sue Lewry will be revealing ‘Colossal’ a mobile printmaking machine in the ground floor space.

GROW STUDIO HOLDER ARTISTS

Aleksandra Sosnowska
Aleksandra’s art works is focused on the human body. Her work includes life drawings as well as portraits. She works directly from life and also from photographs. Her main media is oil paint, acrylic and oil pastels. @alo_art__

Amy Moores
Amy is a painter and sculptor based in Plymouth, Devon. She works primarily from sketchbook journals, documenting form, feeling and memory to develop into larger projects. @moores.amy.2/

Beverley Roach
Beverley is a multidisciplinary artist and maker investigating the embodied landscape within her practice. @beverley_roach

Chloe Georgakis
Chloe is a socially and environmentally engaged artist. She is one half of Future Meadows, a creative DesignMake duo, who collaborate with marine-focused organisations to create innovative and engaging experiences. She will be displaying images from previous projects, as well as studio experiments. Future Meadows Website @futuremeadows

Jordanna Greaves
Jordanna is a multidisplinary artist and curator whose socially engaged practice and playful visual work explores and reimagines conditions for alternate realities. Also, founder of cultural venue Grow Hackney and Grow Studios Plymouth. www.jordannagreaves.co.uk

Nate Studios
NATE Studio is a local creative studio specialising in fashion design, textile and homeware printing. The studio supports local artists, helping them transform their work into profitable products.

Polly Plouviez
Polly is a mixed media artist, whose work explores her own neurodiversity in relation to her painting practice. She consciously paints in both a limited palette of oil colours, to allow her to simply focus on the imagery.@pplouviez

Shiva King
Shiva is an artist and maker, specialising in multimedia abstract landscapes, and intricate driftwood carvings. @shivakingcreates

Skull + Bone Studios
Anthony and Scott are two creative animators working in stop motion, motion graphics and 3D animation. They both graduated from Arts Universtity Plymouth and are looking to create a hub for animation in the South West and want to build a studio where stop motion is at the forefront of thier animation projects.

STUDIO PL1
A fashion manufacturing studio based in Plymouth, founded and directed by Anna Masclans. We serve as a hub for fashion enthusiasts, local businesses, young designers and brands, offering a studio for sampling and production, workwear clothing and training programs. @studiopl1

Studio Wallop
A multifaceted creative studio that uses moving image, illustration, photography, and graphic design to tell compelling stories. Studiowallop.co.uk

Terry Flowers
Terry is a painter influenced by his experiences of the people and places of Plymouth, his family and the various trades he has worked in over the years. @terryflowerr

Will Harvey
Will Harvey is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. He works between digital and analog processes. He will be sharing some of his recent risograph prints and paintings. Will Harvey’s website @w.harvey

Zahra Khanum
Zahra is a British Bangladeshi painter/filmmaker who’s practice revolves around identity, place, memory, and migration. Khanum’s recent experimental work focuses on atypical experiences of diasporic identity, which is centred around South Asian women, reflecting on womanhood in British society. @zahrakhanum_

SHARING INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: A VIRTUAL RESIDENCY, PART OF A‘CREATE SYRIA’ PROJECT

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.

Drop in anytime between 1-7pm for an interactive taster of the work and research projects of Syrian artists Yara Amayri and Abeer Sanyour Help us explore the intangible heritage of Syria and what that might mean to those in Plymouth. Please note: Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

The outcome of the activity will be displayed on the windows on Saturday 12 - Monday 14 August 2023.

PART OF A VIRTUAL RESIDENCY AT GROW

Over the course of 3 months, artists-in-residents, Abeer Sanyour and Yara Amayri and GROW artists, Chloe Georgakis, Nicole Gilbert and Jordanna Greaves met online to discuss their practice, past, current, and potential projects and life in their respective geographical areas.

PUBLIC BATHS

Abeer Sanyour’s project is called ‘Public Baths’ and is documenting the oral history of daily life in Syria, before and after the war, in a series of videos exploring encounters inside Syrian public baths, called Hammams.

URBAN TABLEAUX

Yara Amayri’s project is called ‘Urban Tableaux’ which has a focus on music and artistic performance, exploring reviving the concept of the festival and the social implications of seasonal celebrations.

This residency and event is also part of an ongoing series at GROW called #DIYRESIDENCIES. As the space is in its very early stages, there is much scope for our artistic partners to shape thinking and plans as we experiment and explore the building, its surroundings, heritage and looks to the future in terms of sustainability, inclusion, food and drink, grassroots arts, music and culture.

WHAT IS BEYOND THE NOW?

In collaboration with Arts University Plymouth and Beyond the Now, GROW has been part of Create Syria Project: ‘Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Art in a (Dis)Connected World’.

Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Art in a (Dis)Connected World is an international research, development and cultural exchange focused on the role(s) of socially engaged art in an age of displacement. It includes a programme of mentorships, residencies, public dialogues, commissions, and other peer-to-peer learning for Syrian and Arab artists working across all art forms in the SWANA region, Europe and the UK.

ARTIST BIOS

YARA AMAIRY
Yara’s journey with the arts began through music, where she had the opportunity to participate in various festivals and concerts in and around Damascus, and work with children ages 6 to 10 as a music tutor. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture, she worked in the Consulting Center for Construction and Restoration of Heritage Buildings, and is part of the supervising team working on the restoration work in Khan Suleiman Pasha and rehabilitation of commercial buildings in Old Damascus. She volunteers as a teacher of architectural design for the first and second-year students in the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University, where she has lectured on the history of Syrian art, and is pursuing her Masters in the restoration and rehabilitation of archaeological sites.

ABEER SANYOUR
Abeer is an architect and Master’s student in Urban and Environmental Planning in Syria. She participated in various trainings around tangible and intangible cultural heritage and renovation, and has worked as editor for the magazine Twenty-Two, specialized in architectural concerns through educating, training, habitation and culture– spreading. Among their volunteering staff are students, graduate architects, and researchers across the architectural spectrum. Abeer has also collaborated with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums and is interested in social-spatial cohesion by working and connecting with local communities and their shared heritage.

JORDANNA GREAVES
Jordanna was born in 1979 and lives and works in both Plymouth and London.  As an artist and curator, she explores the oscillation between the discombobulation and pain of living in a neoliberal spectacle; the sickening attraction towards it and the craving for other possible futures. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she asks what strategies we can use to resist its seductive charms and sickly attraction, to create other possible futures and reinvest the self into our day to day living. As well as an artist and curator, she is co-founder and director of community cultural hubs; Grow Hackney and Grow Plymouth.

CHLOE GEORGAKIS 
Chloe is a 3D Designer and Youth Educator. She was born in the UK in 1990, and lives and works in Plymouth. Her practice often explores natural and urban landscapes, sustainability and energy systems. Working in a broad range of materials, she creates interactive, educational props, which have included games and mechanical models. Via her current project ‘Future Meadows’, Chloe explores new forms of communication around the protection and restoration of seagrass and its relationship to climate change.

NICOLE GILBERT 
Nicole Gilbert is an Urban Designer and artist, originally trained in philosophy. She was born in the UK in 1997. She is interested in places and the people that inhabit them at all scales. From cities, to towns, to the home, She explores preserving feelings and identity in the face of change and creates concept maps, paintings and illustrations from stories, observation and data. Nicoles’s current work is on aspirations in a coastal community in Cornwall, where she grew up. Themes include climate change, nostalgia, the loss of traditional industry, and social divides, in a rapidly modernising world.

ABOUT CREATE SYRIA
Create Syria seeks to increase the capacity of artists interested in arts and social change, to develop stronger, more cohesive communities through the design and delivery of community arts initiatives that focus on experience and artistic quality. Create Syria supports individuals and initiatives to build new skills, grow their experience and network with creative practitioners interested in the relationship between arts and community practices.

ABOUT BEYOND THE NOW
Beyond the Now is a syndicated online platform, founded by partners working in locations across Europe and the Mena region. It aims to open new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world; and to amplify the necessity for and experience of solidarity in a time of crisis. Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World Programme, funded by the British Council International Collaboration Fund. Key partners include Ettijahat Independent Culture, Counterpoints Arts, Arts University Plymouth and Mozilla Festival.

PART OF A YEAR-LONG SERIES OF RESIDENCIES AND CULTURAL EVENTS
This residency at GROW is part of a year-long series of pop-up residencies and cultural events called #DIYRESIDENCIES working with partners to experiment and explore the building, its surroundings, heritage and looks to the future in terms of sustainability, inclusion, food and drink, grassroots arts, music and culture.  The top floors have been converted into studios, which are now creative home to painters, audio artists, printmakers, installation and socially engaged artists.