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Visual, musical and digital media artists from around the region have joined forces with local choreographers to produce an hour-long live showcase, being premiered at the Exeter Phoenix in November.
Under the name of the Joy Collective, Alice Leach, Beth Carter, Clair Beckett, Curt Hennels, Darren Harvey Regan, Drunk With Joy, Emma Molony, Ione Rucquoi, Joanna Cartwright, Roger Lewis and StuM have a shared interest in art as a platform for social commentary.
The collective aims to bring contemporary dance and the visual arts to the masses and ensure work doesn’t disappear into private collections.
The event will feature sculpture, animation, dance, photography, film, painting, drawing, new media, printmaking and music, with digital media artist StuM helping to bring out the complexity of the art by displaying it on a large screen.
The collective believes that this innovative way of presenting the work does even more justice to it than exhibiting it in a gallery space.
Find out for yourself at the Joy Collective premiere at the Exeter Phoenix on Thursday, November 6 at 8pm.
Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe seems to be Exeter’s burgeoning Renaissance Person, she paints, she writes, she takes pictures, plays Mediaeval music – and she’s even put quill to touchscreen for the People’s Republic of South Devon. Lee Morgan caught up with her in the noisy Cafe Espresso in Exeter.
Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe speaks to Lee Morgan on the People's Republic of South Devon [4:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1)
Another year of trekking, travailing and talking through a collection of the county’s art, artists and art studios has come to an end. And from whichever angle we’ve tried to cut it, the whole thing seems to have been quite successful. Here’s just a tiny selection of what we’ve seen. If you’ve got anything you’d like to share about the event - thoughts, pictures and so on, then get in touch.
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page and photography Chris Chapman, whose work documenting the local distinctiveness project makes up the Granite Song exhibition, are in conversation in our final film of the series. Watch and enjoy.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
The couple of weeks of arts events throughout the county during the Devon Open Studios event, organised by Devon Artists Network are coming to an end. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what the cultural economy is all about in this corner of the world. Take a gander at what Peter Randall-Page has been getting up to with his local distinctivness work that’s collected in Chris Chapman’s photographs Granite Song – the exhibition of which is currently touring schools.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
It’s worth mentioning, during our Peter Randall-Page week, that the exhibition doing the rounds for Devon Rock year was supported by community arts group Common Ground. The project investigated local distinctiveness and the role of the artist in reflecting and enhancing that.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
Devon Rock is more than just Muse (our less Global Supa-Groops notwithstanding). We caught up with man of Rock Peter Randall-Page talking about Granite Song local distinctiveness work.
It’s part of an exhibition of the photographic documentation by Chris Chapman of the sculptor chipping away at his locality to create unique work for the community.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
It’s Peter Randall-Page week here on the PRSD. As part of the Devon Rock programme, an exhibition of his work exploring local distinctiveness is doing the rounds of schools. Called Granite Song it features Chris Chapman’s photographic documentation of Peter’s sculptures around the not-so-sleepy Dartmoor village of Drewsteignton. We caught up with him at the launch at Bideford’s Burton Gallery to find out more about the project.
To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.
The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.
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