Oksana Merhut, a Ukrainian sand-animation artist, will come to perform in Honiton this September.
Audiences will be offered a unique opportunity to see sand animation, a beautiful artform, widely used in Ukraine since 2006.
Sand animation is a form of art, where the artist creates live pictures in the sand. One image transforms seamlessly into another on a screen accompanied...
Staff at Ruda Holiday Park, Croyde, are set to become the subjects of a New York exhibition following a visit from one of Britain's leading contemporary painters, Caroline Walker.
Often exploring the notion of ‘women’s work’, Caroline provides a unique window into the everyday lives of women, capturing specific spaces such as pharmacies, tailors, beauty salons, laboratories,...
Gideon Mendel is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers. He has documented conflict, change and social issues on a global scale since the early 1980s, earning him international acclaim.
Since 2007, Mendel has been working on ‘Drowning World’, a major project about flooding and his response to the climate crisis. Documenting a variety of flooded...
Eighteen months ago, fused glass artist Susan Purser Hope left her home in Cromer and moved to Devon (Brixham). Now she is back, as her work has been shortlisted for the prestigious Charlotte Fraser Ceramics and Glass Prize at the Holt Arts Festival. Situated in the beautiful Georgian town of Holt and outlying venues, the Holt Arts Festival offers the best in music, theatre, fine art and the...
The Devon branch of the countryside charity CPRE is looking for budding young artists who can capture the beauty and variety of the county’s natural landscapes, from its wild moorlands to its sheltered river valleys.
Young artists aged 18 and under have until the end of September to submit a painting, drawing, textile, collage, or mixed media artwork of a Devon view to win the coveted...
Stonebalancing artist Adrian Gray shares some clever ideas to make the first glimpse of your home incredible
There is often thought, time, expense and effort spent on the appearance and style of our main garden spaces, but sometimes the first perception of a property, its entrance, can be neglected. Adrian Gray , the international pioneer of stonebalancing art, is often commissioned...
Kommune, the Boho arts, music and coffee space, located in The Narrows, Totnes, will host a temporary art exhibition, featuring a vibrant collection of artworks The Kaleidorasa Series: The Kaleidoscope within you without you from 28th February until 20th March 2023.
The series has been created as a collaboration between up and coming Devon-based artist RiverSongHeart (Rosa Weber MA)...
Young artists aged 18 and under can now compete for the title of Devon’s Best Young Landscape Artist 2022. Devon CPRE, a South West branch of the countryside charity CPRE, held the competition for the first time last year and was impressed with the quality and quantity of entries from across the county.
The charity is inviting budding young artists to showcase their creativity by...
Catherine Gillen, director of The Brownston Gallery , is one of the Trustees of The Lenkiewicz Foundation and some four years ago they started the process of authorizing a biography of Robert Lenkiewicz’s life. The first volume has just been published and is already getting good reviews. Written by author and art historian Dr Mark Price it is a definitive, scholarly piece of work that...
Exeter-based illustrator-animator Leo Jamelli is collaborating with University of Exeter academics Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer and Dr Catriona McKenzie on an emotive contemporary art project entitled 'Spotlight on Care'.
He's created a hand-drawn animation of an unpaid carer from Exeter which will be projected onto the Exeter Phoenix after dark in late October. The two-storey high projection...
