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PLATFORMS PROJECT 2023
https://platformsproject.com
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26th – 29th October 2023

Platforms Project 2023 will take place at Technopolis City of Athens (at Gazi, Kerameikos tube station) which is one of the most central areas at Athens with historical buildings.
 
The theme of the HMS Booth at Platforms Project 2023 is PLOT. I am thrilled that curators from Notts, Sheffield, Liverpool, and London have accepted the invitation to curate a PLOT
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I have also invited 14 Nottinghamshire artists and/or HMS Alumni to respond to the same theme for my own PLOT.

PLOT 1             150 x 80cm       Jackie Berridge 
PLOT 2             200 x 80cm       Wendy Williams/Basement Arts
PLOT 3             200 x 80cm       Cynthia Harrison Orr
PLOT 4             200 x 80cm       Fronteer Art/Sean Williams
PLOT 5             150 x 100cm     Rosalind Davis

 
PLOT
  • a small area of ground 
  • a schematic or technical drawing showing variables
  •  a chart, map, or graphic representation
  •  the story that is told as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  • a devise for the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
  • secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
  • plan secretly, usually something illegal

Platforms Project 2022
 13th – 16th October 2022
This marked the 10th anniversary of the artist led event and took place in the School of Fine Arts, Athens.
The theme of the HMS booth was 'Telling Tales'.
 
David Ainley - Joan Ainley - Jackie Berridge
Andrew Bracey - Robbie Bushe - Louisa Chambers
Laura Footes - Cynthia Harrison Orr - Harriet Mena Hill
Michael Johnson - Debbie Lee - Arianna Tinulla Milesi
Masao Nakahara - Mandy Payne - Kerri Pratt
R&F Mo - Geraldine Swayne - Gabriel Tejeda

​​H-M-S is an initiative built on the success of Harrington Mill Studios (2007–18). The studios and gallery were established by Jackie Berridge over a decade ago to provide work spaces and opportunities for fine artists. ​As well as hosting shows by local, national and international artists, the studios also organised artist exchanges and exhibitions in places as far away as Chicago, Seoul, Stockholm, Honfleur and Athens.

Background

Harrington Mill Studios was based the first floor of a Victorian lace factory in Long Eaton, Nottingham.
1. Harrington Mill Studios (2007-2018) sited on the first floor, Harrington Factory, Long Eaton, Nottingham.
2.HMS Exhibition Space, Halfway to Russia and other Eastbound Horizon, GoCart Gallery, Visby, Sweden June 2011
3. Talk by Harrington Mill Studio artists, Platforms Project, Art Athina, Athens, Greece, 2016
4. Art exchange with Art on Armitage, Chicago, creating a collaborative drawing with Alison Whitmore, 2011

Platforms Project 2019, Athens
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In the first exhibition after the closure of the studios, co-curated with Alison Whitmore. Selected artists from different regions of the UK, each with their own way of working were brought together to present House. See images below.
HMS booth 2019 where artists responded to the theme of 'House'.
​2. The launch of Platforms Project, 2019
1. Preparing for the platforms to arrive, Athens Art School, 2019
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