OOPARTs is a collaborative art and community engagement project with artist Ben Hartley.

OOPARTs coordinates exhibitions, workshops, and research events about objects, how they act as vessels for the stories bestowed on them through folk tradition and shared playfulness, and their importance in the construction of heritage and identity. Using speculative futures and fictionalised Celtic artefacts, the project brings together imagined relics reinterpreted with scavenged things, demonstrating how these everyday objects and materials can become vessels for legend.

OOPARTs has been supported and made possible by Bristol City Council Originators' Fund, KIT FORM gallery, Elysium Gallery & St Anne's House.

noun (plural: OOPARTs)
Abbreviation: ‘Out Of Place Artefacts’

Objects of historical, archaeological or cultural importance found in a location that challenges the established historical timeline. 

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OOPARTs

PLAGUE
STONE
PARTY

In collaboration with London-based actor Ozzy Algar, PLAGUE STONE PARTY theatre company is a comedy folk-revival collective, with a focus on the retelling of Celtic mythology through a contemporary Queer lens.

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PERPET-
UALLY
STEW

Perpetually Stew is a monthly exhibition series in Bristol, platforming artists who use performance and movement in their practices.
Perpetually Stew is produced, programmed, and hosted by Buoys Buoys Buoys, George Avill, and Beau Palmer.