Castle Drogo will be the backdrop for a creative programme of exhibitions and performances celebrating the creative spirit of Dartmoor from Saturday 14 May until Sunday 19 June. There will be artist’s exhibitions, workshops, theatre and a costume display by the students of Plymouth College of Art. The event launched on Friday 13 May with an open evening, including live music, games and a chance to see ‘Trousseau’, a costume display by the students of Plymouth College in the castle. As part of the Festival of Arts there will be ‘Art in the Hut’. Artists such as Diane Bailey, Caroline Turner...
Teignmouth-based art group Flying Colours has won the opportunity to display their work in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Their exhibition will be from Saturday 30 April to Sunday 29 May.
The 2016 Local Art Show competition was supported by the Express & Echo with readers voting for their favourite. The exhibition is part of RAMM’s Naturally Inspired season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes and Exeter Art Week.
Gahan Oliver, group founder and mentor, said ‘To have won this highly prestigious competition is a wonderful reward for the members of Flying Colours...
Castle Fine Art, Exeter, is urging aspiring artists to take part in IN:SIGHT 2016.
Run by fine art publishers Washington Green – Castle Fine Art’s parent company – IN:SIGHT is a campaign to find the rising stars of today’s visual art world.
Representing the diverse nature of contemporary art, work from aspiring visual artists in any field or medium is encouraged to be submitted for consideration.
Those chosen to take part in IN:SIGHT 2016 will be featured in Washington Green’s ‘Summer Exhibition’ at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, from 30th July-28th...
A special event launching the 2015 Exeter Phoenix Artists’ Moving Image Commission.
Benjamin A Owen will transform the building, producing a live soundtrack to a new body of film works shown here for the first time.
Benjamin A Owen is a filmmaker whose work explores politics as it is played out in the everyday and in the commonplace. Although often working in the form of film, his practice encompasses exhibition making, performing music and working in education. Owen’s process is highly collaborative, and he often works with musical performances as a form.
British artist Nic Joly has raised £45,400.00 for The Royal British Legion through sales of ‘Never Forgotten’ – a signed limited edition miniature sculpture released to commemorate the WWI Centenary.
Drawing on the ultimate symbol of Remembrance and hope, the poppy, the poignant piece was released in July 2014 ahead of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The edition size is 1,566 – representing each day the war was fought – with each individual sculpture labelled on the back with a unique piece of information about that day during the Great War....
Featuring city landmarks, national landscapes and the work of the English visionary Cecil Collins, the new exhibition of Exeter’s Fine Art starting at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) on Saturday 24 October will delight art lovers.
Drawn from RAMM’s extensive collection of topographical prints, drawings and watercolours, distinctive city landmarks include Mol’s Coffee House and the Higher Market. The fine art collection also includes outstanding British landscapes and some of the finest are included providing dramatic views of Wales, the Lake District and Yorkshire.
Internationally renowned artist Romero Britto has teamed up with Washington Green, the UK’s leading fine art publisher, to release a new collection of works in his iconic style.
Available to buy at Castle Fine Art, Exeter from Friday, the newly curated collection gives art lovers the opportunity to enjoy and buy this new exclusive body of work on British soil for the first time. In his signature Pop Art style, the collection – self-titled ‘Romero Britto’ – features vibrant colour, playful themes and hard‐edged compositions. Comprising a series of hand signed limited edition...
Artists from Devon have been invited to exhibit their works in Essen, once a centre of the German mining and steel industry.
They will be presenting paintings of the beautiful landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. The German people are particularly interested in this part of the United Kingdom since more than a hundred of Rosamunde Pilcher's novels have been adapted for television by a high ranking German TV station, earning the German producer and Rosamunde Pilcher the British Tourism Award in 2002.
The paintings will be interpreting the colours and structures of the...
Exeter Phoenix is pleased to announce the fourteen artists who have been selected for this year’s Exeter Contemporary Open art exhibition. Exeter Contemporary Open is a firmly established highlight of the annual visual arts calendar in the South West and has become a nationally recognised platform for the very best in exciting, emerging contemporary art. The selection panel - which consistedof Welsh artist Sean Edwards, London based artist, writer and curator Cedar Lewisohn, Nottingham based independent curator Jennie Syson and Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows - had a tough challenge...
Organisers of the Exeter Art Show, which takes place on 4 and 5 July, are pleased to announce that Hawksmoor Investment Management has agreed sponsorship of the West Country’s largest exhibition.
Hosted at the Maynard School in the centre of Exeter, the Show now boasts in excess of 100 artists and two sponsors, with more being welcomed.
Robin O’Grady, Director of Business Development for Hawksmoor, says the company is “absolutely delighted" to be supporting the 2015 Exeter Art Show.
Robin said: "At Hawksmoor we recognise a good investment and when asked if we’d like...
