Over the weekend of 22nd – 26th July 2022 we held our celebrated free festival of contemporary art and music.  We celebrated our tenth anniversary with the first large scale event since the global pandemic.

The focus for Expressions has always been to make the arts accessible, interactive and a source of wellbeing. The people we support were involved in every aspect of Expressions, from creating the art to organising the show. We worked with professional artists and local organisations to give participants invaluable access to the art world and help to get the art work exhibition-ready.

At Expressions we strive to find the uncanny in the everyday, to challenge the status quo and to imagine a new world through art making. With the group show we were advocating for collective, cross-disciplinary collaboration in pursuit of togetherness and equality as a way of life.

Our theme this year was the ‘Imagined Landscape’ and the captivating and thought provoking exhibits explored the ways that landscape is understood and imagined, both individually and on a collective level. Through the work we invited audiences to consider the landscapes they experience, to explore our shared and individual imaginings and to respond to these as witnesses and collaborators. Our art exhibits explored our journeying and changing relationship with landscape through time. Themes that were explored in the making of the exhibition included human connection, influence of the landscape, active and passive understanding of nature and the landscape, as well as geology and the climate emergency.

Throughout the weekend audiences enjoyed an eclectic lineup of live music as well as creative workshops, market stalls and a bar and cafe.