Gordon Dalton is an artist, writer and curator. He is Project Manager for Art Across The City, Swansea, commissioning public at projects. He also runs Mermaid & Monster, curating and writing about art. He has curated and managed projects for artists including Olaf Breuning, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Merlin James, Richard Deacon, David Blandy, Marjetica Potrc, Yelena Popova, Peter Liversidge, Jacob Dahlgren, Juneau Projects and Helen Sear.
He has shown his work internationally with exhibitions at venues including Bank, Los Angeles; Galerie Skuc, Llubjiana; Collective...
Plymouth Play Association, alongside Plymouth Arts Centre, invite you and your little sparks, to come and ignite your creativity with a fireworks themed workshop. Artist and learning specialists support these open-ended activities for children under 6. Don’t forget to dress for mess. Come along to Plymouth Arts Centre on Tuesday 12 November from 1-2.30 to have the chance to make some exciting bonfire night inspired art!
Advance booking is essential. Please call the box office on 01752 206114.
More information is available at www.plymouthartscentre.org .
A free fireworks-themed workshop to ignite children’s creativity following Bonfire Night is being held next week.
The event next Tuesday at Plymouth Arts Centre, run in conjunction with Plymouth Play Association, is for under 6 year olds. Artists and learning specialists will help children ignite their creativity.
The workshop, at the venue in Looe Street, will run from 1-2....
Luke Fowler is an artist who works with film, sound, installation and photography.
This new film focuses on the work of Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson who, at the age of 25, was employed by the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) in Yorkshire. He taught literature and history to adults who, historically, had been unable to access higher education, including miners, factory workers and the unemployed. E.P Thompson and his peers, Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, were committed to the WEA values of delivering a ‘socially purposeful’ education and to the cause of...
For the second year running Plymouth Arts Centre and Dartington Barn Cinema are very excited to present this year’s programme of outdoor screenings at the Royal William Yard. We have put together a seaside themed series of films that hopefully have something for everyone to enjoy, including a short programme of South West-made films before each main feature.
As is usual in the cinema, the films will start as the lights go down. In this case, as...
Bob and Roberta Smith is recognised for his trademark, text-based paintings. These colourful signs are hand painted onto scraps of wood and roughly nailed together. The shapes and misshapes of letters are as important as the message they spell out. These fields of colour ask questions, make statements and instigate debate. Letters swim before your eyes as you attempt to decipher a text, which could be an announcement of an event or provocative call for action. Bob and Roberta Smith’s work explores the relationship between humour, politics and society and questions established values and...
Plymouth Arts Centre have invited Hand in Glove to present PLATFORM 2013 in their gallery. For PLATFORM, Hand in Glove visit degree shows across the region, to seek out the work of compelling new artists, which they feel could benefit from being re-presented in new surroundings and with additional support. Previously held in Bristol galleries, PLATFORM arrives in Devon for the first time, providing a potential springboard for a Plymouth University graduate.
For PLATFORM 2013 Hand in Glove have selected Plymouth University graduate Rachael Gomery's installation We Are Therefore...
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, UK/Germany, 2013, mins tbc. Cast. Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar, Douglas Hodge.
This eagerly anticipated film focuses on the final two years of Diana's life, when she had separated from the Prince of Wales and had been in relationships with Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed, who was also killed in the crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. Directed by German Oliver Hirschbiegel ( Downfall ) and shot in England, Croatia and India, the film also features Douglas Hodge as royal butler Paul Burrell and Naveen...
Highly acclaimed and blindingly talented artist Jock, responsible for some of the most gorgeous comic book, poster and film concept art you ever did see is being given the keys to the Mondo truck for an incredibly special event.
Here is a quick list of some of the stuff he's worked on: Batman , Detective Comics , Batman Begins , Dark Knight Rises , Hellblazer , Judge Dredd , Green Arrow , Daredevil , The Losers , Scalped , Wolverine...
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, US, 2013, ? mins. Cast. Ryan Gosling, Kristen Scott Thomas, Yayaying, Vithaya Pansringarm.
Winding Refn and Gosling delivered one of the coolest films of recent years with Drive in 2011 and they are back in partnership with the Cannes critic’s dividing Only God Forgives . Julian (Gosling), a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother (Scott Thomas) compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his...
