SWAF Swindon Arts Fringe. 17th - 30th June 2024

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of SWAF Fringe Arts Festival 2024. Prepare to be amazed by the unexpected popping up in the most intriguing empty spaces across Swindon.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of SWAF Fringe Arts Festival 2024. Prepare to be amazed by the unexpected popping up in the most intriguing empty spaces across Swindon.

The idea for SWAF is to give creative opportunities to people and places.

SWAF will bring art exhibitions to Swindon Town Centre and give local people the chance to curate, exhibit and participate in these exhibitions.

Curators will respond to empty spaces as well as existing places to showcase a wide range of visual arts as well as performance and workshops.

The deadline for artists to apply is 1st May 2024.

Exhibition: Secret Submissions
About The Curator: Gem and Steve of The Trinity Collective
Www.trinitycollective.co.uk
@secret.subs

The Trinity Collective was founded from a place of deep love for our vibrant, creative community, urban culture and th

Exhibition: Illustrated Women in History
About The Curator: Julie Gough
www.illustratedwomeninhistory.com & www.apalelanscape.co.uk
@illustratedwih
@swinzinefest

Julie Gough is an illustrator, graphic designer and zine maker based in Swindon, En

Exhibition: Swindon In Abstract
About The Curator: Gideon Liddiard
@gideon.liddiard

I am a Swindon-based, Autistic photographer, principally specialising in music photography, and building a documentary history of Swindon's music scene. I also hav

Exhibition: Pure Abstract
About The Curator: Paul Exton/ Dayna Baxter
@Dayna12622

Paul Exton.
After graduating from Cheltenham Art college in 1999 I have experimented with many different art forms. Drawing is one of my favorite art expressions. I a

Exhibition: Days of the Old School Yard
About The Curator: Deirdre Levy
@deirdrelevy

I make art obsessively. The creative process is a compulsion, 'making' makes me very happy. At art college I realised that much loved textures had become textiles a

Exhibition: Beyond a Joke!
About The Curator: Lisa Lowe
@lisaloweceramics

I became interested in ceramics about 20 years ago when I enrolled onto an evening class, since then my passion for all things clay has grown, I have taken many classes and l

Exhibition: What does it mean to be young?
About The Curator: Signal Festival Swindon

Signal Festival Swindon is a radical showcase of youthful talent and creativity. We are six Producers aged between 20 and 28. Signal Festival Swindon is being mana

Exhibition: Re-Imagining Rubbish
About The Curator: Sumnima Pun
@sumnimasumnimasumnima

I am Nepali British and my work is inspired by the experiences of the diaspora. I investigate feelings of in-betweenness conveying the often confusing nature of

About The Curator: Heather Dash
Exhibition: Expressions

I have loved art from a very young age. I studied Art at university and have worked in research and development where I specialised in creating liquid metal finishes for interiors and bespoke

Exhibition: Secret Submissions
Curated by: Gem and Steve of The Trinity Collective
Instagram: @secret.subs
website: Www.trinitycollective.co.uk

Secret Submissions is a call to submit art anonymously.

Each exhibit will have a unique canvas and brie

Exhibition: Illustrated Women in History
Curated by:Julie Gough
Instagram: @illustratedwih @swinzinefest
website: www.illustratedwomeninhistory.com & www.apalelanscape.co.uk

The Illustrated Women in History project is a way of fighting against t

Exhibition: Swindon In Abstract
Curated by: Gideon Liddiard Photography
Instagram: @gideon.liddiard
website: www.gideonliddiardphotography.com

The exhibition will feature photographs of the everyday and common in Swindon viewed in ways we don’

Exhibition: Pure Abstract
Curated by: Paul Exton/Dayna Baxter
Instagram: @Dayna12622

Dayna Baxter and Paul Exton have joined together to curate an exhibition for the Fringe.
We want to concentrate on the abstract. This can be expressed in Painting

Exhibition: Days of the old school yard

Curated by: Deirdre Levy

As a curator with Swindon Alternative Festival 24 I am looking for people who were at school as teenagers in Swindon sometime between 1959 and 1965. The relevant people just need mem

Exhibition: Beyond a joke!

Curated by: Lisa Lowe Ceramics

Instagram: @lisaloweceramics

I am currently working on a ceramics project around the impact of the menopause on women's lives and how funny or unfunny it can be, using true life quotes tha

Exhibition: What does it mean to be young?

Curated by: Signal Festival Swindon

An eclectic and unexpected insight into perceptions and experiences of youth and all its pleasure and pain.

We are planning a second exhibition of the work during the

Exhibition: Re-Imagining Rubbish

Curated by: Sumnima Pun
Instagram: @sumnimasumnimasumnima

Rubbish has taken over our lives; it's impossible to get away from and impossible to live without. The plastic that is designed to become packaging that ke

Exhibition: Expressions
Curated by: Heather Dash

The Expression Art Exhibition is a celebration of the creative talent and unique perspectives of disabled people, providing a platform to showcase their artistic abilities ranging across a variety of

Artsite is excited to get the community together for #SWAF24 - The first official Swindon Arts Fringe!

Please take a look at the exciting list of exhibitions we'll be running here on our official website:

https://www.swindonartsfringe.net/

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