THE gallery space at Salisbury Arts Centre has been turned into a celebration of local creativity and inventiveness as resident artists and workshop leaders associated with the venue respond to the Olympic torch passing through Salisbury.

Each group has been invited to ‘pass’ the baton to another by sharing an art work or collaborative idea to be taken forward in a different medium and brought together for a multimedia showcase called Relay.

More than 50 people will be involved in making work for this exhibition, which opened on Thursday and runs until July 14. An example of the work being created is young ceramicists collaborating with Big State Theatre and Filmmakers Anonymous to create a clay/live action dissolving city. Other plans include mixed media totems and scriptwriters doing literary sprints in the form of 100 word scripts inspired by the work of other groups.