Exhibition: Papaya Salad
Exhibitions, Free, In Person, Peer Networks, RIPE
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th June 2025
The Alfred Arcade, 82a Old Northam Road, Southampton SO14 0PB
Papaya Salad is a short-term residency project that aims to encourage artistic and professional development through a series of skill sharing activities.
For this third Papaya project the Ripe Papayas, who exhibited at the Alfred Arcade across summer 2024, reconnected and developed both individual and collective outcomes, culminating in this group exhibition.
The project is a hybrid of digital and physical exchanges and art-making, and provides the participating artists with the opportunity to remain connected.
Join us for the Launch on Friday 27th June, 6pm – 10pm
Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions: Papaya Salad and Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma.
🔶 Explore our most recent exhibition at the Alfred Arcade, Papaya Salad, a short-term residency project that aims to encourage artistic and professional development through a series of skill sharing workshops. For this third Papaya project, the Ripe Papayas, who exhibited at the Alfred Arcade last summer, have reconnected and developed both individual and collective outcomes, culminating in a group exhibition.
🎨 Preview a new exhibition at the Hidden Wardrobe, Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma. Lucas is a painter who is interested in appropriation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. His process involves selecting old masters’ paintings and transforming them using online generative AI systems, distorting the original image as a way of studying composition, colours and subjects. He then uses these images to create paintings that open up a dialogue between the traditional and the contemporary.
🎵 Music will be provided at the Alfred Arms by Southampton-based music collective, Address.
🥂 Drinks will be served at the Alfred Arcade and the Alfred Arms from 6pm – 10pm.