Primary as the name implies was previously a primary school. Unlike the Lakeside Arts that is new, Primary was old but there was, we found, beauty in the old.
We walk into the entrance, a red sign greets us. The floors were grey, peeled in some areas, the walls white.
We stepped up into this area that seemed to be a reading/ waiting space. The most fascinating thing was that I could hear my own footsteps on the wooden floor.
(The first exhibition was upstairs)
.... and then we saw something that looked like a black door but we could hear noises. I was in front so I stepped closer, stretched out my hand to touch the black "door" and it was fabric. So I opened it up. The room was dark and near to the end of the space was a tall screen, the high walls allowed for a screen that tall to fit. We walked towards it and then we heard noises so we looked down, the floor was covered in some form of tape, this made me walk slowly.
Some of the team found a door at the other end of the room and we walked down a stairwell that led to another exhibition; it was filled with thorn-like structures at various points in the room.
We went down another set of stairs and through a long corridor, the floor was green, the walls had been painted yellow and some brick work was left exposed.
We approached a white painted small room, I could spot the old fire place, the floors were old- made out of timber, photographs were placed on the walls. This led us to another small white room with more photographs, of course. There was an urge to touch stuff, to step harder and to open doors.
We walked back through the same corridor, still touching walls, taking pictures, trying to open doors, peeking through any openings that we could find and it was much easier to find our way through.
The Primary was a maze but it awakened our curiosity to find what we were looking for, even if at the start we were not clear on what that was exactly.