Plymouth Arts Centre’s 60th
July 3rd, 2008
posted by Cptn
On Saturday Plymouth Arts Centre should get its free bus pass, it celebrates its 60th anniversary afterall. And how to enjoy such a pensionable landmark?
There will be an exhibition of ‘fragments of Plymouth’s past and present through archive material, film footage, radio broadcasts and stories’.
‘In its early years there were exhibitions by Gwen John, Ivor Kenny and Ted Williams, as well as famously offering Beryl Cook her first exhibition,’ says the press release, but Patrick Heron, Peter Blake and Paula Rego were well on their way to international acclaim by the time of their shows in the ’80s and ’90s.
The exhibition will also include a new commission, Reciting the City, by Mike Lawson-Smith – ‘a two-screen video installation that sets the stage for a latent dialogue between Plymouth’s citizens, prompted by film footage extracted from the South West Film and Television Archive’.
Also on show will be Jeremy Deller’s wall drawing The History of the World 1997-2004. An intricate mind map which traces the links between the Acid House scene of the late ‘80s and the traditional brass band.
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