Away Pitch
Away Pitch is a touring art exhibition which has been awarded the Cultural Olympiad Inspire Mark.
It explores the connections and contrasts between the worlds of sport and art through photography and poetry. Twenty artists displayed their work in the homes of twenty people involved in sport. The response was recorded through a series of photographs by the lead artist Vitor Azevedo.
Vitor is a Director of Artsmith LIVE which is an arts company based in Derby that encourages artists to work together to develop unique and exciting projects for all ages and abilities. Away Pitch aims to encourage discussion, debate and collaboration within arts and sporting cultures.
Award-winning writer Kevin Fegan created an individual poem for each of the twenty photographs to further develop the conversation between artist, sportsperson and photographer.
To celebrate the opening of the Away Pitch exhibition, local artists created a live physical theatre piece entitled Perfectus will be performed to illustrate the continuous desire to reach perfection within both the art and sport world.
Kevin Fegan will perform Away Pitch poetry alongside visual projections and contemporary dancers as they struggle to understand the complexities of success and what that brings.
