Visual Stories : An Exhibition Special View Event at The Platform Gallery.
February Thursday 20th 2025
The Platform Gallery. Kingston School of Art, Knights Park. Grange Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2QJ with Harper Stringer, Jules Sprake, Julia Rose Lewis, SJ Fowler, Danica Ignacio, Eleanor Wilders, Cameron Wade, Matthew Sokulsky, Bella Weerasinghe, Sinnead Singson, Aimee Nimmo, Regina Avendano
This event was an exhibition special view, with a series of performances by exhibitors. Writing Cultures’ Festival of Storytelling took place from January 24th to March 14th 2025, with events at The National Gallery, workshops and happenings across Kingston University, and an exhibition - a centrepiece showcase for students, staff and poets and artists across the UK. The exhibition explored visual storytelling, and how innovative methodologies around language, design, composition can amplify and extend the ways in which we read, and see, a story or tale. The exhibition presented concrete poetry alongside word clouds, abstract art alongside asemic writing, and firmly emphasised what is possible when we no longer take for granted what a story is, on the page, canvas, wall.