‘Starting Lines’ at Baltic is an installation exploring creativity, collaboration and community, and it’s the first major exhibition by north-east-based artists, designers and educators Adam Phillips and Deborah Bower (known as Foundation Press).

Rooted in the region, Foundation Press devise initiatives and resources that support people to explore creativity and storytelling, and ‘Starting Lines’ is focussed around eight creative briefs which have been central to Foundation Press’s social practice over the past 10 years. The show proposes that the act of creative making is open to all, offering potential for community-building and a way of reflecting upon day-to-day life. The installation features a studio space where visitors can create and contribute their responses to the exhibition as well as a risograph printing press which will house a programme of workshops and collaborations.

Starting Lines, until 30 August, Baltic, Gateshead, baltic.art