Mandy Bangerter - Zoë Barker - Gill Clarke - Vincent Dupont-Blackshaw - Fran Farrar - Jan Frith - Barbara Gowan - Violet Mareck - Fiona Schindler
Founded in 2013, The Ryde Art Collective is a group of artists who work and exhibit together and whose aim is to show a range of stimulating contemporary art across diverse media.
Members are predominately Ryde-based, but artists are invited from across the Isle of Wight to join or show with the group according to exhibition opportunities and complimentary practice. TRAC members work in a wide variety of media that include ceramic, sculpture, printing, textiles, painting, photography and digital media.
LAST EXHIBITION
12 – 24 September 2024
At:
Quarr Abbey, Ryde, PO33 4ES (daily 10am-4pm)
Quay Arts Clayden Gallery, Newport, PO30 5BD (daily 9am-5pm)
Re:Box, Lind Street, Ryde, PO33 2LD (24hrs)
VIA VITAE Quarr Abbey - An Artistic Response
This unique and site-specific exhibition sensitively explores the history and meaning of well-known Benedictine Island landmark Quarr Abbey, bringing new artistic insight into a special and increasingly rare way of life – the Via Vitae of Quarr Abbey.
The Via Vitae project was originally scheduled for installation at Quarr in October 2020 but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. In the years that followed, a number of new artists joined TRAC. Each one chose to embrace this unique opportunity and helped to shape a project that became four years in the making.
TRAC members have respectfully immersed themselves in the world of Quarr with rare opportunities to ‘go behind the scenes’ allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of the Abbey, the Benedictine way of life and the history of the site.
MEET THE ARTISTS
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Zoë Barker
PHOTOGRAPHER
Zoë Barker is a photographer living and working on the Isle of Wight. Shooting predominantly on film with a medium format camera and handheld light meter, her meticulous approach allows her the time to appreciate the minutiae of our everyday world. -
Gillian Clarke
MIXED MEDIA
Gillian Clarke uses many different media to explore her ideas. These include painting, drawing, collage, printing and ceramics. -
Vincent Dupont-Blackshaw
PHOTOGRAPHER
French photographer, based on the Isle of Wight, Vincent looks for moments that are quietly unique. Often an isolated thing or person in an environment that on first glance is ordinary but on second glance tells a subtle story. -
Fran Farrar
PRINTMAKER
Fran Farrar is an Island based artist printmaker who uses etching, monotype printing and paper manipulation to explore personal emotional responses relating to identity and ancestry. -
Jan Frith
DIGITAL MEDIA
Jan works with time-based media and technology, usually combined with three dimensional objects or explored through interactive installations. Social commentary is often implicit within her work. -
Barbara Gowan
PAINTER
Barbara Gowan is an abstract painter based on the Isle of Wight. She explores emotional realities through intuitive mark-making and pentimento. -
Violet Mareck
MIXED MEDIA
Violet graduated from the University of East London with a BA Hons in Fine Art focussing on three dimensional and mixed media.