Projects

A new open air public art space created to showcase more art, connecting people with nature working harmoniously with its Sensory Garden location.

Sidmouth School of Art in association with Sidmouth Folk Festival welcomed JJ Waller, Artist Photographer in Residence in August and November, to create a personalised "snapshot in time" during the Festival.  JJ's A Community Portrait work opens in our new photographic exhibition at the Riverside Art Space, 25 February 2025.

Sidmouth Coastal Community Hub working with Sidmouth School of Art is delivering SMArt - a two-year public art project to develop Sidmouth people as the artists and Sidmouth as the artwork. Connecting people with their own creativity, with each other and with the space around us. At total of seven SMArt public art projects will be featured here.

The Clamship is an art installation, DJ venue and creative marine conversation space.  Created for Sidmouth Sea Fest and now embarking on a journey to other gigs, the vessel is an interpretation of a clam, a bi-valve mollusc, a sustainable ecosytem water cleaning filtration system.  A fitting example of nature looking after nature which provides a powerful reminder of how humans should act.

Watch this Wallspace: a public gallery for everyone. Transforming an unloved space overlooking a car park by the sea in Sidmouth. Wallspace features a diverse range of artworks from a growing number of contributors - already nearly 100 - of all ages, interests and backgrounds.  

Celebrating the beauty and variety of flowers in Sidmouth and led by artist Maureen Hawkridge and the u3a Exploring Art Group of Sidmouth.  Children and older people will be painting flowers for a new artwork for Sidmouth Wallspace.

Flowers often hold special meanings in our lives.  Sidmouth School of Art is excited to be supporting this collaboration which promises a bouquet of colour.

Sidmouth has a rich and eclectic mix of places, spaces, people, groups and events that contribute to its cultural life. Sidmouth School of Art wanted to explore this diversity - to celebrate it, collaborate and explore new opportunities. So, we commissioned Emma Molony to conduct community research and create an artwork to represent what she found.

Light sculptures, projections and more where the Byes, the River Sid and the sea merge. A celebration of emerging from the dark of winter into the hopeful light of springtime, rallying around the theme of Save Our Seas.

Our thought provoking early evening event across half-term was supported by an amazing group of volunteer stewards.

Art, entrepreneurship and building confidence for life are integral to a hopeful future. Working with Meraki Arts School and Sidmouth-based Buzz Coffee, we are developing an innovative joyful collaboration to empower young people aged 13 to 16, to create a new art work as part of a creative and employment skills project.  Their artwork will also be exhibited on Sidmouth Wallspace.

A fun project with children aged 5 to 10 years, exploring the joys of creativity, making conkers and linden berries, making at scale and exhibiting in the community.

Local artists provided free collage and paint workshops for all ages and abilities - expressive and free - connecting people to their minds, bodies and souls through the power of live music.

A people and place based project in collaboration with artist photographer Robert Darch, teaching and mentoring local photographers to develop their own projects and artworks for Sidmouth Wallspace.