On Thursday 25th April a packed audience witnessed the opening night of the first exhibition by the Stroud dwelling, newly-formed female artist collective Tump made up of illustrator, portrait painter and folk artist Alex Merry, ceramic artist, ink maker and illustrator Flora Wallace and multidisciplinary artist, designer and stylist. Milligan Beaumont.
Entitled Bat, Moon, Womb the multi-media exhibition presented by curators and roving gallery Sacred Thing is currently on show at the Old Music Centre at 49 London Road which was most recently the home of the Corner House Restaurant.
Paintings, ceramics, sculptures and textiles influenced by their shared interest in the spiritual experience of the local landscape and its ancient human and non-human history are featured throughout the popup space and for the opening night multi instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake provided a live soundtrack to the collective’s mesmering short film shot at Hetty Pegler’s Tump; the Neolithic chambered burial mound in Uley. The collective also embarked on a procesion through the throng inviting onlookers to get involved in an interactive, ceremonial performance….
The exhibition continues today, Sat 27th April 9am-5pm and Sun 28th April 11am-5pm. If you missed the performance you can catch it again for the final time on Sunday from 6 till 8pm.
Dom Thompson headed down to the centre of town to capture the opening night for our ongoing photojournal series…
