Grow’s Blog
Follow the journey of Grow Plymouth as it transforms from a unused building in the city centre into a creative home for painters, digital artists, and socially engaged practitioners, with a ground-floor Project and Event Space.
SUN, WIND & RAIN. DON’T COMPLAIN.
Artist Kieran Walsh brings his work together in this pop-up residency this September to share recent portraits and landscapes. The paintings reflect a deep connection to Plymouth’s people and places as he prepares to leave the city. It’s a fond farewell for now, but by no means a goodbye.
“…AND BREATHE…” NEW RESIDENCY WITH MEGAN ROBERTS
Artist Megan Robertson will be popping up at the Project space over the coming months. On Sat 27 September (11am-3pm), as part of Grow Plymouth’s Open Studios, Megan invites you to come find out about her new project and join in with a drop-in collage session!
ARTISTS TEST AND EXPLORE IN PROJECT SPACE
Artists from the University of Plymouth are the first artists-in-residence to take over Grow’s project space in 2025. This spring residency unfolds in two phases over three weeks and includes MA and PhD students.
RESIDENCY PROGRAMME 2025
Looking for a temporary space to make work, host a workshop, create a project? Having a residency at Grow’s project space could be the solution? In 2025, we invite artist and artist collectives to take over this centrally located space near Plymouth City Centre for 3-weeks residency.
PROCESSIONAL STATE - A RESIDENCY AND SHOW
A week residency and exhibition this November by three artists is called ‘Processional State’ presents ongoing slow research made at and of Maker Heights in Cornwall.
DIY DIGITAL - PART OF PLYMOUTH ART WEEKENDER 2024
For Plymouth Art Weekender 2024, 10 artists of Grow Studios took over the groundfloor project space with a pop-up DIY activation to explore how we intentionally and unintentionally involve digital technology into our own everyday lives and creative practice.
OPEN STUDIOS 2024
The studios of Grow Plymouth opened its doors for the first time for Open Studios on Sat 7 September. We were also joined by artist-in-residence Sue Lewry, who introduced mobile print making machine ‘Collosal’.
SUE LEWRY’S MOBILE PRINTMAKING MACHINE ‘COLOSSAL’
On Saturday 7 September (11-3pm), the artists of Grow will be opening their studios to show what goes on behind studio doors and artist-in-residence Sue Lewry will be revealing ‘Colossal’ a mobile printmaking machine in the ground floor space.
LOCAL PEOPLE SEW A KILOMETRE OF STITCHES BY HAND TO MAKE NEW ARTWORKS
Plymouth-based artists LOW PROFILE (Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Rose) have been inviting local people to join them once a month for open sewing sessions at GROW to make a series of new banners using simple patchwork and hand-quilting techniques. This month, the finished banners will go on show for the first time at an exhibition in GROW.
SHARING INTANGIBLE HERITAGE - A VIRTUAL RESIDENCY, PART OF A ‘CREATE SYRIA’ PROJECT
As part of the ‘Beyond The Now’ project, GROW has been hosting virtual artists-in-residents from Syria. This included meeting online to share practice, projects and life in our respective geographical areas. We invite you to participant in activities in on Friday 11 August to explore and interact with their projects.
‘PRACTICE IN PROGRESS: TOWARDS A TRANSFORMABLE MAPPING METHODOLOGY’
Architectural researcher Leah Dinning joins us for her day residency on Friday 28 April, showcasing her Practice in Progress from her PhD at the University of Plymouth exploring the liminal nature of public space in the city.
ART AND ENERGY AT GROW
From the 23– 29 March 2023, Art and Energy will be in residence at GROW to experiment, play, learn and share! Take a look through Grow’s window throughout the week or join them at one of their pop-up events to make and share your views on energy, moss and more.