For the better part of this year GAP has  been in negotiations with a group of exceptional Belgian artists who, in the course of our conversations, have looked at several options as to how we might collaborate, interact and share practice and projects. These artists, Ils Lambrichts, Eline Ouwendijk, Frédérique Rennuit (aka Harrys Shades), Marianne Van Herreweghe, Anke Vielfont and Ingrid Westhovens have been greatly influenced by the GAP Frag Exchange Project creating a number of ongoing exhibitions and projects resulting in compelling sculptural, assemblage and mixed media collaborative works in Lier, Belgium. The fruit of our conversations has coalesced to produce: FRAGS & FLARDEN (the tattered remains of dreams) : an exhibition which resonates with the essence of the GAP International Frag Exchange Project; recycling discards, refuse, "failures", left overs, scraps and bits, billboard fragments, notes, journal writing, poems, found materials, bus transfers -- the fragments of practice and the culture, passing them on to another and allowing the creation of new work that would never exist without a generosity of perception and a collaborative spirit. WHAT : FRAGS & FLARDEN exhibition WHEN: 9 September - 29 October, 2023 WHERE: Gallery Artisjok Lier, Belgium GLOBAL ART PROJECT exhibiting artists: Michele Atkinson canada Chaewon Oh korea Sandee Johnson usa Helen S. Cohen usa Phil Coucke belgium Ale Feijo argentina Nancy Perry usa Naomi Middelmann switzerland Mikel Frank usa Teri Dryden usa Helene Öfwerström sweden Phoenix Savage usa Kari Manwiller usa Mar Daines. france Saeed Dokhani iran / usa David Jenowe usa Linda Coppens belgium / spain Elise Marshall usa Lynn Arnold usa Massimo Nota italy Glen Rogers mexico Michael Shemchiuck usa Phil Coucke belgium Sarah O'hala usa Francesca Lamberti italy Juan Manecheca caribbean Colleen Gianatiempo usa Pamela Pitt usa Sandra Bastida argentina Christine Verhaert belgium Patricia Calabro usa Tapak K Ray india / usa Akiko Suzuki usa/japan Carl Heyward usa