Gymnasium Projects - Ruth Ewan - The Difference

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Gymnasium presents new works in public locations throughout the city of Lincoln, alongside associated exhibitions in the University of Lincoln’s gallery — Project Space Plus. The first year of the project will involve three artists ‘imagining possible futures’ with reference to the situation in Lincoln in the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. 'The Difference' is the first of these new works.

Taking cue from Lincoln’s historic connections with the Magna Carta artist Ruth Ewan developed workshops with young people from The Meadows Primary School which resulted in a series of slogans,text works and drawn maps. One of the re-imagined maps has been developed by Ewan and expertly crafted into an alternative globe which is sited in the foyer of Lincoln Central Library.

Selected words and slogans from the workshops feature in a series of letterpress prints produced with Lincoln’s Caseroom Press, which can be seen at Project Space Plus from 16 June - 11 July.