Last autumn the Castle Circus area of Torquay had its own festival to celebrate its art, music, and community spirit. There were workshops, performances and a pop-up exhibition.
The residents of Leonard Stocks were included, firstly by helping create a brilliant new mural on a building at the entrance to Factory Row and then taking part in the inDisposable photography project.
Residents were given a disposable camera and invited to take pictures of their day, seeing Torquay through their eyes and daily experience. The result was extraordinary with dozens of images – tender, thoughtful, disturbing, beautiful.
They were printed up and put on display in an empty town centre shop and this year the exhibition moved to Torre Abbey. Some of the pictures were paired with paintings from the abbey’s huge archive.
Creative director Jamie Lewis-Hadley said: “The presentation of inDISPOSABLE artworks in Torre Abbey is particularly meaningful given the Abbey’s history as a site for housing and feeding those in need. As well as caring for the sick and poor, it was customary for the Abbey to offer one night’s free board-and-lodge to travellers.”
The exhibition is on until March 15 and is free to enter.
COLOUR: Factory Row has been brightened by the creation of this wonderful mural, part of the This is My Circus art and community project