Line Up is an exhibition of contemporary craft curated by interior stylist and author Sania Pell. She explores the relationship between monochrome objects and how they combine and interact in styled groups to present beautiful still lives that can be displayed in any home.
Artists include established designer-makers alongside emerging new talents: Another Country, Theo Adamson, Kyra Cane, Jason Collingwood, Bettina Dittlmann, Akiko Hirai, Hyu-jin Jo, Silvia K, Astrid Keller, Sue Lawty, Liz Nilsson, Sania Pell, Brook Sigal, Kaori Tatebayashi, Nicola Tassie, Dr Tim Willey and Derek...
For a chance to purchase some paintings and artistic gifts this Christmas; Ocean Studios, situated at Royal William Yard, is hosting a Christmas exhibition featuring work from artists based within the Studios, as well as a wide selection of original gifts, just in time for your Christmas shopping.
Over 60 artists have had the first opportunity to present their work to be selected for Plymouth’s Ocean Studios ‘inaugural residents’ show. Entitled The Christmas Show, the exhibition offers the chosen artists, from a range of different...
Dr Christian Weikop examines how three giants of the post-1945 German art scene refigured painting to critically reflect on German history and art history. Dr Weikop, Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, is a specialist in modern and contemporary German art.
His talk accompanies the ARTIST ROOMS: Gerhard Richter exhibition at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery (26 September 2015 – 16 January 2016).
Tuesday 15 December 2015 | 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building Tickets: £6.60 | £4.50 concessions | Free to Peninsula Arts Friends....
A diverse and exciting show that reflects the rich variety of postgraduate masters level work, undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Showcasing an array of ideas, methods and approaches, this exhibition invites you to explore and enjoy bookworks, creative writing readings, film and video, paintings, photographs, sculpture and 3D design, all by exhibiting students. Come and immerse yourself in their creative world.
Graduate work is exhibited from architecture; contemporary art practice; creative writing; digital arts and technology; photography; publishing;...
Taking inspiration from Ivan Chermayeff: Cut and Paste, why not come and make your own collages from a variety of found materials.
This event is suitable for all ages.
We are also delighted to be exhibiting work by Stanley Donwood. His Dream Cargo collection of J.G. Ballard book covers will be on display as part of the Plymouth International Book Festival.
Free Admission.
Booking required.
The Ivan Chermayeff exhibition is in the Peninsula Arts Gallery 19 September - 14 November 2015, Monday - Friday 10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 11:00 - 16:00.
Join David Smart, curator of Ivan Chermayeff: Cut and Paste, for a gallery tour and talk, exploring the practice and legacy of this prolific designer.
Free Admission
The Ivan Chermayeff - Cut and Paste exhibition is open to the public in the Peninsula Arts Gallery 19 September - 14 November 2015, Monday - Friday 10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 11:00 - 16:00.
Following the success of Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip in 2013, we are delighted that it returns as part of this year’s Plymouth International Book Festival.
Artist and Plymouth University Fine Art lecturer Anya Lewin commissioned a replica of her father’s 1950s coffee house in the form of a film set that references the American TV show ’77 Sunset Strip’ which also featured a set of the original Chez Paulette cafe.
Operating as a fully functioning coffee bar throughout the festival, it is the perfect venue for you to enjoy fine coffee, listen to poetry and readings, and...
Stanley Donwood, artist and writer, received an email from J.G. Ballard’s publishers asking if he would create cover art and design for 21 of the author’s works. In Donwood’s words:
“As Ballard is both arguably the finest and most peculiar novelist to work in English in the 20th century, and perhaps my favourite writer, the outcome of that email was a foregone conclusion."
In producing the cover designs, Donwood worked with scientists in their laboratories, using acids, combustion, X-rays, chromatography, and various other experimental techniques - working with the...
The ‘ARTIST ROOMS Gerhard Richter’ exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery will open its doors for a public launch event on the evening of Friday 25 September – prior to starting its run from Saturday 26 September 2015 to 16 January 2016.
This high profile exhibition featuring work by one of the world’s most significant living artists will also help mark the start of the...
Designs and creative output by one of the world’s greatest living graphic designers are to go on show during a public exhibition at Plymouth University.
Ivan Chermayeff, son of Modernist architect Serge Chermayeff, has been designing since the 1950s and, with an office in New York, is still at the cutting edge of the graphic design industry.
