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Check out a weekend of arts events throughout South Devon and beyond

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 20, 2009

What a weekend for arts (starting Saturday, June 20). The contemporary dance troupe Task Force, led by Stephan Koplowitz, begin stepping their way around the historic South Devon with their Liquid Landscapes tour. Over on arts+culture there’s a run down of the venues, plus a diary of South Devon artist Helen Snell’s involvement with the

Artists – a big, new public work at Brixham Fish Quay needs you!

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 18, 2009

Artists are being sought to create ‘an impressive landmark to enhance and promote the new Brixham Fish Quay redevelopment’.

The origins of eccentricity, according the official eccentric Colin Shaddick

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Devon Eccentric Colin Shaddick (no it’s official – he came third in this year’s competition), dropped us a poetic line to explain a bit about the origins of his award-winning eccentricity. You could get more of an insight at the Salon del Eccentrica, an Eccentric evening at the Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple on Thursday, June

Find the funding opportunties you need for your next new project

By PRSD, on Monday, June 15, 2009

You know how it is when all the cupboards are bare, and you’ve got so many projects you want to pursue but for a little lolly (that’s money to you). We know that feeling only too well. Well, here’s some funding opportunities that have come across our desk

Review of Monoprinting Workshop, Plymouth Museum, June 6, 2009

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009

Picasso, Matisse, Emin… and now, after a Saturday workshop at Plymouth Museum, add Smith to the list of people who have produced monoprints, (although unlike the list of artists before me, income from my efforts wouldn’t even cover the bus fare home).

The Geoff Clams column: Premiere Time

By PRSD, on Monday, June 8, 2009

•This is a new regular column on the adventures of Geoff Clams

On an impossibly sunny and happily recent Thursday, it so happened that I caught the local premiere of John Tomkins’ new feature-length movie, Like an Angel, at Torre Abbey’s Spanish barn.

Art theft at the Exeter Phoenix

By PRSD, on Wednesday, May 27, 2009

There has been a theft of art work, part of an installation by British artist Doug Jones, at the Exeter Phoenix’s galleries. The incident took place at around 10.15pm on Saturday, May 23.

All’s well for Urban Sketcher James Hobbs in Torcross, Devon

By PRSD, on Friday, May 22, 2009

Urban Sketcher and writer and illustrator James Hobbs visited Torcross, at the end of Slapton Sands, Devon.

Art and food at The Cattle Market Café, Tavistock

By PRSD, on Friday, May 22, 2009

Think of a cattle market café and a slightly shabby eatery serving doorstep sandwiches and caustic tea might come to mind – ubiquitous welly-boots and associated manure making for surroundings that are more sterile than welcoming. So the Cattle Market Café in Tavistock is a bit of a welcome surprise.

Martin Bush on Plymouth student Encounters art exhibition

By PRSD, on Monday, May 18, 2009

Martin Bush, artist in residence at the Royal William Yard, Plymouth, popped along to a student show taking place there

Fine Art students at the University of Plymouth invite you to ‘encounter’ their work as they host a stunning art exhibition at the Royal William Yard, Plymouth.

On arrival to the preview evening I entered with the

Diversity on display at The Wharf’s Tavistock Music and Arts Festival exhibition

By PRSD, on Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Wharf at Tavistock, a privately run arts centre, is currently hosting an exhibition of local artwork as part of the annual Tavistock Music and Arts Festival.

The first three artist ads arrive in arts+culture competition

By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The first three entries are in for the arts+culture ad competition. Artists were given the challenge to design a 125×125 ad for the arts+culture website, linking to themselves, to win the chance to be featured on the cover of the arts+culture magazine.