Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage
The Box, Plymouth
When: 26 February 2022 to 05 June 2022
Where: The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX
Time: 10am - 5pm
Cost: Free
Suitable for: Any age
Open Tuesdays to Sundays and Bank Holidays from 10am-5pm.
Curated by Glenn Adamson.
Featuring work by Annette Bellamy, Sonya Clark, David Clarke, Michelle Erickson, Jeffrey Gibson, Jasleen Kaur, Christien Meindertsma, Jonathan James Perry, Katie Schwab and Allison Smith.
Just over four hundred years ago, the Mayflower embarked from Plymouth, England. Many aboard were non-conformists, leaving their homeland for fear that their religious community would otherwise perish. On arriving in what seemed to them a 'new world' they established a settlement. But of course this land was already long inhabited. The Wampanoag people lived in the region, which they called Patuxet.
The implications of the Mayflower crossing are so far-reaching they are sometimes difficult to comprehend. The voyage is both a national origin story for America and, given the widespread devastation of the Indigenous population that resulted, an event to mourn. There is common ground here in the act of remembrance, but the distance between these two perspectives can feel vast, more difficult to navigate than an ocean in a wooden boat.
'Another Crossing' charts a course through this abyss. The project is a transatlantic collaboration organised by Plymouth College of Art, The Box and the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts, USA. During the exhibition’s development, the artists travelled to both places to better understand the historical context, visit key locations and meet historians, academics and curators.
Each participating artist has created work in response to the Mayflower anniversary, utilising only tools, materials and processes that existed in 1620. It's a concept that highlights the sophistication of historic craft practices like beadwork, joinery, metalsmithing, leatherwork and pottery.
It also has a metaphorical intention: the art works inhabit two moments in time, stretching across four centuries. They are by turns introspective, outraged, sad, funny, surprising and humane. Each offers its own wisdom. Collectively, they suggest that the journey undertaken by the Mayflower is still in progress all these years later. We’re still trying to get to a better place.
'Another Crossing' has been developed in partnership between Plymouth College of Art, The Box and Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts.
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