Leap then Look: Play Interact Explore

PREVIEW 27 September

Open Wednesdays to Fridays 12pm to 5pm
Saturdays 12pm to 6pm
Sundays 12pm to 5pm

Play Interact Explore is an exhibition of interactive artworks and resources created by Leap Then Look, which is artists Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie. 

The exhibition considers play and collaboration, creating new relationships with art objects and materials.

The artworks have emerged from ongoing collaboration with community groups in Eastbourne, Brighton, Isle of Wight and Crawley. Through a series of interactive workshops, Leap Then Look has worked with participants to explore, test and develop creative strategies and ideas. From this the artists have created a lively, exciting, and curiosity-filled space designed to support and encourage all visitors to take part in playful exploration and critical thought through art making.

Everything in the exhibition is interactive and you are encouraged to spend time in the space and explore all of the possibilities that are available to you. Look in different ways, create sculptures, take photographs, move things around, rock and roll, or stack and play.

Leap Then Look create participatory artworks, projects and events for a broad spectrum of people, spotlighting the possibilities of play, collaboration and material exploration in cross-disciplinary art practice. Part of an ongoing national tour, Play Interact Explore changes and adapts to the venues and locations it travels to.

Dos and Don’ts

Children under 12 should be accompanied by an adult in this space at all times.

We’re encouraging play in the gallery space for all ages together, including grown-ups. Please share and be mindful of each other.

On some days and at peak times, we may ask you to take your turn and then give others the chance to have a go, please be led by our team in the space.

Please do not take any small parts home with you.

Photograph your finished constructions and add them to the exhibition.

About Leap Then Look

Leap Then Look was founded in 2018 by artists Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie. They create interactive art works, participatory projects, workshops and events and have worked with participants from a wide range of backgrounds, ages and cognitive differences. Their art works encourage audiences to physically interact, inspiring playfulness, inquisitiveness and experimentation. Their installations combine art forms including sculpture and object making, performance, film, and photography. They believe that contemporary art practice should and can be made available and accessible to everyone and that we can all benefit from engaging with new ways of looking, making and thinking.

Leap Then Look have worked with arts institutions including; Tate, Towner Eastbourne, Royal Academy of Arts, National Gallery, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Turner Contemporary, V&A, Brighton Festival, Compton Verney, Black Mountain College Museum - as well as Tramway.

Play Interact Explore was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Photo by Hugh Fox courtesy of Leap Then Look