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KARST

KARST is a contemporary art gallery and artist studios in Stonehouse, Plymouth.

24/06/2026

Due to the ongoing heatwave, we have decided that KARST will be closed tomorrow (Thursday 25 June). We plan to open again on Friday. See you then! 🌞

22/06/2026

THIS FRIDAY AT KARST ⬇️

💬 CURATOR’S TOURS 💬
26 Jun & 24 Jul, 1-2pm

Join our Head of Programme, Ben Borthwick, for an free introductory tour of KARST's current exhibition, Lucía Pizzani’s Faunal Succession.

📅 26 Jun & 24 Jul, 1-2pm
🎟️ Free (no booking required)
📍 KARST

📸 Dom Moore

20/06/2026

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Lucía Pizzani’s Faunal Succession last week! 🌿🐚

In Faunal Succession, Pizzani reimagines the British coast through a ‘deep time’ lens, considering Earth’s history on an immense timescale spanning billions of years. She contrasts the gradual formation of Britain’s coastal geology with rapidly evolving contemporary questions of climate change and migration.

📅 On view until 1 Aug (Wed-Sat, 11am–5pm)
💬 Curator’s Tours: 26 Jun & 24 Jul, 1pm
🎟️ Free entry
🔗 To find out more, visit: https://karst.org.uk/exhibitions/faunal-succession/

📸 Dom Moore

19/06/2026

As part of Refugee week, we are currently showing “Our Shadows Are Long”, a collaborative project between two community darkrooms: Fotohane in Turkey and Contact Darkroom in Totnes.

Serbest, one of Fotohane’s founders, is a Syrian refugee who began running workshops to help connect local and migrant children to the world around them. The show brings together photographs by Fotohane’s students, taken during their workshops in Mardin where participants were encouraged to play and experiment freely. Also featured are photographs by Contact Darkroom, taken during their visit to Mardin, alongside a few extracts from a film about Fotohane and Mardin.

📅 On view until 25 Jun
📍 FENSTER project space at KARST
🎟️ Free entry
🔗 To find out more, visit the link in comments...

09/06/2026

📣 STUDIO NEWS 📣

This June, Rachael Allain will be joining us as a short-term studio holder, undertaking a month-long, self-directed residency.

Rachael is a South West-based artist and researcher. She employs a multidisciplinary, embodied approach to explore sites both above and below the horizon, revealing hidden aspects of our visible world. Her work focuses on liminal spaces, in between the land and bodies of water, in both near and distant locations.

Rachael says:
“I plan to develop and test new and existing works, made in response to the shifting light in and around the summer solstice, when the daylight hours reach their peak. These will be made in response to the intertidal zone, the tidal rhythms and flows of the sea, focusing on the horizon at Firestone Bay and the coastline in Plymouth Sound, in close proximity to the studio at KARST. These explorations will be further tested through a sustained period in the studio.”

📸 2. Tidal Print, I, II & III (2026), Rachael Allain

06/06/2026

🚶🏻 ARTIST WALK-THROUGH 🚶🏽‍♀️

Next Friday at KARST, join artist Lucía Pizzani and our Head of Programme Ben Borthwick for an introductory tour of our new exhibition, Faunal Succession.

📅 Friday 12 June, 1–2pm
🎟️ Free (no booking required)
🔗 To find out more, visit: https://karst.org.uk/events/artist-walk-through-lucia-pizzani-and-ben-borthwick/

📸 1. Eloisa Arias (courtesy of Abra Caracas). 2. Dom Moore.

04/06/2026

Lucía Pizzani’s Faunal Succession opens next week at KARST! 🐚

Join us for the opening event on Thursday 11 June, 6–8pm.

📅 On view from 12 Jun – 1 Aug
🕥 Open Wed–Sat, 11am–5pm
🎟️ Free entry
🔗 To find out more, visit the link in comments...

📸 1. Chalk being (detail) (2026), Lucia Pizzani. 2. Fossil horn (detail) (2026), Lucia Pizzani.

30/05/2026

Last week, Lucía Pizzani joined us at KARST to install the plaster wall for her upcoming exhibition, Faunal Succession.

Scroll through to see Lucía in action! 👀

📅 Opening event: 11 Jun, 6–8pm. On view: 12 Jun - 1 Aug (Wed-Sat, 11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free entry
🔗 To find out more, visit: https://karst.org.uk/exhibitions/faunal-succession/

📸 Dom Moore

29/05/2026

🎉 STUDIO NEWS 🎉

Congratulations to Sam Machell on being awarded Exeter Phoenix's Artists Moving Image Commission.

For the commission, Sam will utilise ultra high frame rate cameras to capture and slow down choreographed movements of bodies and light to create images of clowns in dance-like combat.

28/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see INSIDE UFO and joined us for the accompanying discussion panel, earlier this month at KARST. 🙏

INSIDE UFO brought together sculptural works by KARST studio artists Anna Boland, Laura Hopes, Tom Pether, and Laura Robertson. The group show was the result of two peer-led residencies conducted by the featured artists in which they coined the term Unidentified Familiar Objects, or UFOs, to describe the found materials at the heart of their practice.

📸 Martin Hampton

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