At the Tower, 29th March to 1st April:

‘forgotten space’ is a body of creative work by students on the Landscape Architecture programme at University of Gloucestershire.

Gloucester is a city that has a rich historic narrative and a wealth of character within the fabric of its streets, buildings, spaces and people. As such it has provided a wealth of opportunities for students to explore, develop and apply their conceptual, design and artistic approaches, thinking and abilities within a ‘real’ place.

The term ‘forgotten space’ might be applied to a landscape, a building, a pavement, a grass verge, a wasteland, a group of people. It might be something of the past, present or future. It might be of any scale and ignored or lost in memory. It might be visible or invisible, familiar or unfamiliar.

Following an intense period of research throughout Autumn 2010, students were subsequently invited to develop ideas, artistic concepts or creative projects that express their undestanding of and responses to ‘forgotten space’ in Gloucester.

The exhibition is jointly hosted by Gloucester Guildhall and Gloucester Civic Trust (St. Michael’s Tower). It brings these exciting multifaceted projects together as a collection of artistic reactions to a number of sites, spaces, issues, social groups or historic points of reference identified across the city.

The content is thus rich and varied and includes films and
‘soundscapes’, text-based work, images, interventions, installations and happenings. The exhibition is reflective, sensitive and considerate of Gloucester’s heritage, places and people. Much of the work is ambitious, often celebratory, sometimes deeply experiential and personal, often experimental and sometimes unexpected. All of it, however, is of an extremely high artistic and creative quality.

We hope that all visitors will enjoy seeing parts of Gloucester through different eyes and in unfamiliar and unexpected ways.

We hope that those who see this work will be inspired to look again at
the world around them.