RIPE Live:

Ripe Plums #01 / BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEETH!

RIPE Live: Ripe Plums #01 / BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEETH! was a launch event celebrating RIPE artists past and present.

Ripe Plums #01, the first in a two-part exhibition of outstanding work by a group of recent graduates from Solent University and Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. The project provided an opportunity for a group of emerging artists to exhibit a recent body of work in a new space, the Alfred Arcade. The artists met, exhibited and engaged in critical debate; forming networks and friendships to help them sustain a fruitful visual arts practice here in Southampton.

RIPE alumni and painter Megan Georgia Smith’s newly opened exhibition BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEETH! which explored the major themes of young people, the rising use of e-scooters in the city, and the problems this ensues, through vibrant and eccentric painted depictions, was also on display at the Hidden Wardrobe.