‘WISH YOU WERE HERE…?’
TAG CURATES

Exhibition Dates

SHOW RUNS
FRIDAY 16TH JUNE – 1ST JULY 2023

Tuesday – Friday
11 – 6pm

Saturday
11 – 3 pm

Artist Talk Series
Saturday 24 June
12 – 3 pm

12 noon – 12.20 pm
“Two Painters in Conversation with Lucinda Metcalfe and Lucy Smallbone”

 12.30 – 12.50 pm
“Navigating Globes with Ceramist Loraine Rutt” 

 1.00 – 1.20 pm
“Imaginary Landscapes: An In Conversation with David Wightman”

 1.30 – 1.50 pm
“Transcending Borders Mapping with Birds: An In Conversation with artist Claire Brewster” 

 2.00 – 2.20 pm
“ICES – Celebrating the “staycation” and the British seaside with photographer Richard Heeps” 

 2.30 – 2.50pm
“Drawing and Printing with artist Frank Kiely: An In Conversation”

CLOSED
Sunday / Monday

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Claire Brewster
Adam Bridgland
James Burke
Rebecca Coles
Francesca Colussi Cramer
Adam Dant
Ewan David Eason
Ella Freire
Guy Gee
Richard Heeps
Emma Johnson
Dede Johnston
Emily V. Jones
Frank Kieley
Lucinda Metcalfe
Perish The Thought
Loraine Rutt
Lucy Smallbone
Justine Smith
Benjamin Thomas Taylor
Yanko Tihov
Tobias Till
Stephen Walter
David Wightman
Brigette Williams
Kristjana S. Williams
Cai Yuan

TAG CURATES is pleased to announce our summer group exhibition inspired by the 1974 BBC hit TV show ‘Wish You Were Here…?’ celebrating a return to local and international travel. ‘Wish You Were Here…?’ takes a playful look at holidaying and travel escapism as we seek to re engage with the wonders of the world post-pandemic.

Just as the BBC hit TV show invited its audiences to be virtually transported to an exotic location from the comfort of their living room, ‘Wish You Were Here…?’ encourages visitors to submit to their sense of adventure and imagination. Through the eyes of a group of curatorially selected artists, viewers can contemplate our very human desire to travel and explore.

But as the way we travel changes, with environmental concerns redefining how, when and where we take our holidays, Wish You Were Here…?’ is, in many ways, a beautiful metaphor for holidaying itself – the exhibition touching on themes such as memory and nostalgia, that are irrefutably interwoven with how artists are approaching this complex subject today.