Studio 10 Project Space at East Quay and Studio KIND in Barnstaple have teamed up to develop a new project with a group of artists based across West Somerset and Mid/North Devon. The project will culminate in two exhibitions, featuring work made across a broad spectrum of contemporary practices, including photography, sound, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, video, writing and painting.

Born in Nigeria and now based in London, Tonye Ekine is inspired by memories, familiar stories, and shared histories. This is the first time his work is being shown in Devon. Many of the artworks include the Ife bronze mask, an important symbol from the Yoruba city of Ife. For Tonye, the mask connects him to his heritage and carries stories, feelings, and strength from the past into the present. 

Getting to know ourselves is often a lifetime’s journey: this can feel all the truer - and harder - when we’re neurodivergent and belonging is hard to come by. Becoming Visible captures the work of a group of neurodivergent young people aged 14 to 23 from across Northern Devon. Between January and March 2026, they gathered fortnightly at Studio KIND to nurture or awaken their creativity and build new connections. Led by local artist Nicky Ruddick, the young people began with the stimulus of ’spirals’ and continued to use a variety of mediums to explore interests, imagination, identity and experience. This exhibition brings together the work created during these sessions alongside a selection of work made by local artists with lived experience of neurodivergence in a celebration of how our inner and outer selves emerge through creative expression.