MEANWHILE, Sickboy Artist Talk and Artwork Reveal

Launch event

Artist talk and Artwork Reveal

SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA and 16 George Street, Stroud, GL5 3DY
Wednesday 10th June 7.30pm

Doors open at 7.30pm, talk starts at 8pm artwork reveal following the talk at 9pm.

Tickets: Pay What You Can £6/£8/£10

Artwork on show until 21st June

Town centres across the UK are suffering, this is a long term issue that has been widely recognised, while there are pockets of engagement a coordinated strategy is required to drive forward change and realise the value in occupying and activating empty spaces in a cost effective way.

Join Sickboy on Wednesday 9th June at 7:30pm to discuss the benefits and challenges faced making use of empty shops on a meanwhile basis. Sickboy is passionate about community and inspiring people to create, this topic will be discussed from an artist’s perspective. Highlighting to property owners the benefit of activation and the ease of collaborating with artists to bring the community together and support local businesses operating in the town centre.

This site-specific installation by SICKBOY occupies a vacant premises in a post-industrial town centre, activating a space shaped by absence and transition. Once a site of productivity, the building now exists in suspension between past function and an undefined future.

The work occupies the window façade, enabling it to be viewed from the street. At its centre is The Temple, the artist’s recurring symbol. Traditionally associated with permanence and positivity, it is reimagined here as a provisional, transient form. The installation explores impermanence as an ongoing condition. Through material and spatial intervention, it reflects cycles of use, abandonment, and renewal, inviting viewers to consider how meaning, identity, and place are continually constructed and eroded.

Feel free to join us at Fluorescent Smogg residency featuring Sickboy, at Site Festival Open Studios 13-14th and 20th June 11am - 5pm.

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