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Jason Wilsher-Mills: Jason Beside the Sea

14 September 2024—3 January 2025Monday - Friday | 10am – 5pmFREE

Woodend Gallery

Have you ever seen a dressed crab like this before?

A giant inflatable sculpture of a psychedelic crab and colourful digital wallpaper featuring a pair of lovers inspired by Scarborough’s Peasholm Park feature in the latest exhibition at Woodend.

Jason Wilsher-Mills presents Jason Beside the Sea, a colourful explosion of Jason’s signature printed wallpaper and giant inflatable sculptures. Meet larger-than-life characters to reveal the stories of Jason’s memories of childhood seaside holidays, 1970s working class experience and disability.

This exhibition has been created thorugh a partnership prjoject with Scarborough Museums and Galleries and Crescent Arts. The exhibition has been funded with a Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant.

 

Listen to sounds of Scarborough nostalgia below 👇

On this soundtrack, you might experience these sounds:

#organmusic #seagulls #waves #ripplingwater #crowds #talking #arcades #fairground #laughter #shrieking #coins #brassband #singing

Sample: Nathan Badger@NATBOYSLIM sings his version of Bobby Darin’s ‘Beyond the Sea’.

Sounds created by Ed Shipley.

About Jason Wilsher-Mills

Jason Wilsher-Mills is a Yorkshire-based disabled artist who captures childhood memories, popular culture and social history through his psychedelic pattern-clashing inflatable sculptures and wallpapers. The explosion of colour and disabled activist messaging transcends into individual characters, who carry a story and journey to each new town. There’s something for everybody; ultimately, it’s a story about love, a reminder of the magic of younger times and caring for everybody.

Jason Beside the Sea is part of Connecting Coastal Cultures, an Arts Council England funded project delivered by Scarborough Museums and Galleries in partnership with Crescent Arts to raise the profile of art in the north, providing opportunities for artists from the area to exhibit in regional venues.