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Plymouth Art Weekender
Sun, Oct 18th, 2026 at 4:00pm Location: Melville Building
A city-wide celebration of Plymouth's independent creative scene, running since 2015. Plymouth Art Weekender brings artists, organisations, spaces and audiences together for a weekend of exhibitions, performances, workshops, screenings and talks, spanning established galleries, artist studios, homes and unexpected spaces across the city. At Royal William Yard, expect a showcase of the city's homegrown talent alongside artists visiting from further afield.
Melville Building Exhibition - Featuring
- Hope beings with a Home Exhibition
- South West Coast Path Photographer of the Year Exhibition
- Polly Plouviez
- Emma Sprawson
- Rosie Allen - Perdikeas
- ADRIFT - The Conscious Sisters
Also taking place this weekend as part of Plymouth Art Weekender
The Affordable Art Market - Melville Corner
This exciting event is all about inspirational art, direct from the artists—a space where creativity and community meet. Visitors will discover a curated selection of contemporary work, including landscapes, abstracts, printmaking, ceramics, and more.
Open each day from 10:00 - 16:00 - click here to find out more
A Gift of Sound and Vision - Steel Brew
Video installation by Chris Drake AKA The Modulator and poet Ed Tapper. ‘The Gift of Sound and Vision’ marks ten years since the death of David Bowie and explores contemporary themes inspired by his work.
12:00 - 15:00 each day - click here to find out more
Plymouth Art Weekender is taking place across the city - Click here to find out more.
The exhibition is part of Artober at Royal William Yard
Melville Building Exhibition - Artist Information
ADRIFT - Five new Ganseys knitted in the traditional way, by hand, in the round, using the techniques and knowledge passed down through generations but their patterns will speak of the challenges facing commercial fishers today.
The designs, knitted for five local Fishermen, explore the changing conditions of the sea and the pressures placed upon those who make their living from it: climate change, commercial market closure, changing fish populations and the increasingly uncertain relationship between fishermen and their environment. The Ganseys are co-created with 5 knitters from our recent Gansey courses, bringing together traditional knowledge, contemporary experience and the creativity of a new community of makers.
The Conscious Sisters CIC is a socially engaged arts company based in Plymouth, UK which produces unique art projects working with and for the community.
The real life sisters love collaborative working with communities and specialise in work that explores identity, drawing from over 40 years of experience of inclusion and race work. As an organisation it aims to interrogate and raise the standard of community arts practice in the South West of the UK.
Working in a non-pretentious and accessible way is key for The Conscious Sisters CIC which believes with a passion that art can transform lives.
@theconscioussisters
Body in Rhythm - Exhibition and Live Art Performances
Performances: Sat.17th & Sun.18th October 11.30am & 2.30pmRosie Allen-Perdikeas Visual Artist, Performer, Dance Producer, Emma Bailey Dance Artist
Instagram @rosieperdikeasartandcrafts
Emma Sprawson
I am an illustrator who paints in a naïve style. I studied for a degree at Brighton art college, and a MA from Saint Martins in London. I don’t try and make accurate representations of things but try to bring a sense of explosion and joy into people’s living rooms.
Nature and colourful people inspire me- the circus, Indian imagery and the beauty of the natural world. I believe in revamping old things, so I recycle frames from charity shops instead of using new ones.
What makes my paintings unique, is that I paint the frames with illustrations, so they become part of the picture.
I often do commissions for people based around subjects they like.
I run an organisation called mindful art club with Peggy, helping people suffering from mental health issues and social isolation by using creativity. Our aim is to get back to that feeling when we enjoyed art as a child without judging our ability.
Instagram emmaspraw
Emma@mindfulartclub.co.uk
Polly Plouviez
Polly Plouviez, originally trained in Textile Design, recently returned to her first love of painting, incorporating a Masters undertaken at Artist University Plymouth.
Due to a late diagnosis of Dyslexia, her focus remained for a long time on using a muse, the Jelly Fish, to best represent her ‘untethered’ feelings around neurodiversity. Her other passion is flowers, colour and the materiality of paint.
In her current work, she paints more intuitively and physically and is looking to scale and incorporate oil paint into her paintings. ‘Painting is one of the hardest challenges in my life and also the most rewarding’ .
Instagram @pplouviez
Hope beings with a Home - Path Exhibition
A community exhibition brought together by homelessness charity Path, and supported by Ocean City Arts, as part of Homelessness Action Week. Following last year's There’s No Place Like Home mural and community gallery, Path has invited artists, makers and creatives from across Plymouth to respond to themes of home, hope and homelessness, in a collection spanning painting, photography, textiles and text-based work.
South West Coast Path Photographer of the Year 2026
Featuring 23 large-scale images from the annual competition, showcasing the beauty and diversity of the iconic South West Coast Path, and the people and places to be discovered along the 630-mile route.
Visit https://www.southwestcoastpath... for further information
Also taking place this weekend - The Affordable Art Market - Melville Corner
