SPIN : The Art of Music

The Gallery at the Station, Frome, Somerset UK

30th September - 30th October 2021

I curated, managed and hung ‘SPIN : The Art of Music’ in order to host a conceptual exhibition that I knew the region’s creative community would enjoy; that of work created by artists who work in the music industry or create work inspired by music in some way. Alongside the work itself, we also had a print store of accessible art and a playlist which visitors (or in fact anyone worldwide) could add songs to online and then have them heard in the gallery itself. The exhibition opened with a foreword written for us by Tim Burgess (The Charlatans and Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties) as you can see below.

Work Exhibited :

Amy Kilner ‘Eat Sleep Rave Repeat’

ladypat ‘Glamour & Clamour’ ‘Ground Control’

Horace Panter ‘CERTRON (CASSETTE)’ ‘TRACK (CASSETTE)’

Kingsley Nebechi ‘Pleasant Overthinking’

Mark Wigan ‘The Hacienda’ ‘The Brain Club’ ‘Delirium’ ‘The Mud Club’

Cat Finnie ‘Untitled’

Ben the Illustrator ‘Cover Versions’

Tim Easley ‘Shelfie’

Koalanov ‘Unburdened and Unbecoming’ ‘Party for One’ ‘Goodbye Future’

Ed Cheverton ‘Jazz Collage 1’ ‘Jazz Collage 2’ ‘Jazz Collage 3’

Michael E Johnson ‘The Kings of Rock’

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“Bands are about so much more than music - obviously the music is important but there is so much more. The camaraderie of the shared experience of a gig, staring at album artwork for hours on end, making a mixtape for someone and all the intricacies that that involves - then being given a mixtape in return. There’s the T-shirts that act as a beacon to others, a knowing nod from a passer by, vindicating your choice of that favourite from a show all those years ago. Music is somewhere to belong, it’s a warm jumper on a cold night, a celebration on a dance floor with friends or the solitude of sadness thinking back to times gone past. There’s nothing quite like music to help you with pretty much any state of mind or any emotion.

So complex yet so simple - music isn’t everything, but it nearly is.”

Exhibition Foreword by Tim Burgess