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.
FINDING SPACE MAKING PLACE - PHASE 1 EXHIBITION - SAT 26 NOV
An exhibition showcasing the outcomes of phase 1 of a project in collaboration with GROW, University of Plymouth and the Holy Cross Catholic Primary School exploring what COMFORT means to us and children?
DIY EXPERIMENTS FROM FRI 7 OCT - 23 DEC
GROW is on the fringes of touring art event, the British Art Show 9, which is in Plymouth from 8 Oct - 23 Dec, so the artists of GROW and our partners are coming out of their studios and into your view.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CREATIVE CITIZENS
We’re thrilled to announce we have successfully applied for the Devon Net Zero Innovation Fund which will enable us to develop a new sustainable service linking academics with the community to support education around key net zero issues.
COME MEET THE VISUAL ARTS PLYMOUTH (VAP) TEAM ON TUES 5 JULY
We’re excited to host a meet-up for Visual Arts Plymouth (VAP) on Tuesday 5 July 2022, 3-7pm at Grow (14 Drake Circus, Plymouth). The aim of this informal drop-in session to recruit new members, including new directors.
‘10 YEARS OF RECENT PAINTINGS’, PART OF PLYMOUTH’S ‘FIRST THURSDAY’
New show ‘10 YEARS OF RECENT PAINTINGS’’ opens on Thursday 2 June 2022 with the works of Plymouth-based artists Llyr Davies and Lee Stonehouse to mark ten years since they met and studied Fine Art at The University of Plymouth.
DUNCAN WESTON’S SOLO SHOW ‘DON’T ASK’ OPENS FRIDAY 6 MAY 2022
From Friday 6 May - Friday 13 May 2022, Grow Plymouth invites you to experience the world of multidisciplinary artist Duncan Weston at new show ‘Don’t Ask’. The show is the culmination of a three month artist-in-residency where Weston embodies and utilises the building and its surroundings at a time when this 120 year-old building begins its transition from its purely commercial past.
STUDIOS NOW AVAILABLE!
We are renovating and dividing the building into smaller studios on the upper 3 floors (initial phase) with events spaces and arts, music venue & bar/kitchen on the lower floors (second phase). Studios available now.