contemporary

Exhibition: Plymouth Contemporary Artist Showcase 2018

Selected artwork from the major Plymouth biennial

Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10:00-17:00, Saturday 11:00-16:00 Free admission

We are delighted to present the work of Georgie Grace, Jennet Thomas and Serial Composition as part of this artist showcase. The artists were selected from the 2017 Plymouth Contemporary, a major Plymouth biennial exhibition hosted by Peninsula Arts and KARST.

They were recognised for presenting new and original ideas and pushing the boundaries of their field, which include film, animation, painting and drawing.

Animal Condensed and...

Artists invited to consider visions of present and future for 2017 Plymouth Contemporary

The world’s turbulent social and political landscape is among the potential themes artists are being invited to consider for the 2017 Plymouth Contemporary.

Following a successful launch in 2015, which attracted entries from across the world, submissions for the second staging of the exhibition are now being invited with prizes of up to £2,500 on offer.

Any entries must be...

Get Fresh ’17 - new SouthWest designer-makers

Saturday 14 January – Sunday 5 March

Get Fresh is a biennial exhibition held at Devon Guild gallery - this year showing work by 15 new and emerging designer-makers from the South West. The exhibition reveals a diversity of approach to materials and the design process, whilst also providing a debut platform for exciting new work in craft. Includes jewellery, ceramics, furniture and mixed media sculptures.

Exhibitors: Luke Axworthy, Jo Barker, Mark Cullen, Sarah Duncan, Carey Ellis, Emma Finch, Tom Gyr, Sarah Hitchens, Carol Hunt, Claire Reed, Marieke Ringel, Fern Robinson,...

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016

Frontiers: expanding musical imagination

Promoted in partnership with Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).

Festival directors:

Simon Ible, Director of Music, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University Eduardo Reck Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, Plymouth University

The theme of the 2016 edition of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination.

It will showcase extraordinary new technologies and approaches to composition and performance that are pushing the...

Top stylist’s exhibition of design for the contemporary home

Exhibiiton runs Saturday 16 January - Sunday 6 March Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF Launch event 6-8pm Friday 15 January (all welcome, free)

Line Up is an exhibition of contemporary hand-made objects, curated by interior stylist and author Sania Pell. First on show at London’s Flow gallery, the exhibition has now reached Devon, and reveals the art of interior...