A new social history exhibition opening at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery this Saturday (27 April) will give visitors a unique insight into the reconstruction of the city following World War II.
‘The Making of a Modern City’ is being held to coincide with the first ever Plymouth History Festival and will run until Saturday 29 June.
The sights, sounds and smells of Hollywood in the late 1950s and early 60s are coming to Plymouth University.
For five weeks from April 27, the Peninsula Arts Gallery will host an exhibition which features a recreation of a Los Angeles coffee house, complete with authentic entertainment and a working vintage espresso machine.
The exhibition has been coordinated by Fine Art...
Local artists are being given the chance to showcase their talents as Plymouth City Council hosts a new programme of open art displays and talks.
Inspired by Plymouth based artist Martin Bush, councillors are to open up the Council House for exhibitions, supporting the city’s creative economy. Two pieces of modern art by Mr Bush are currently on loan and being displayed in the Cabinet...
There's less than a week left to see an exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery featuring 40 portraits of artists from Paris, London and St Ives by one of the 20th century’s most pioneering female photographers.
‘Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer’ has been produced by the Museum in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. It charts Russian-born Kar’s career from some...
This time of year brings with it the promise of long, warm days and expansive blue skies. Reflecting the seasonal mood, INTO THE BLUE is a vibrant mixed exhibition that explores colour, atmosphere and place through a diverse range of styles and subjects, from surrealism and graffiti to abstraction and more traditional land and seascapes.
The exhibition features many of the gallery's resident artists - Mark Fielding , whose work captures water-based scenes, alongside Ben Lucas , known for his atmospheric coastal paintings. Joe Webster presents his distinctive graffiti-...
The Hay Gallery at Sea View Art Barn, Otterton provides the perfect backdrop for this three artists exhibition (weekend 30-31 May) featuring works inspired by the natural landscape, horses and dogs. A charming combination of photographic works, paintings and sculptures will be on show by local artists; Photographer – James Wakefield, Photographer – Kit Williams and Sculptor – Frances Margaret.
All are welcome.
Saturday: 30th May - 10am to 6pm / Sunday: 31st May 11am to 4pm
More information: https://seaviewartbarn.co.uk/exhibitions/photo-art-...
Artists from The Unknown Knowns will join Curator, Vickie Fear, and our Artistic Director, Sarah Chapman, for a conversation on the crossovers in their work with moving image.
Join filmmakers Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, winners of The Arts Institute Film Commission 2018 with their film, 'Of Monsters', as they discuss the development of their two-part film from their earlier ideas of writing a play.
They will also take you through the process of navigating the collection at the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA) and what they are planning on working on next.
The habit of gathering at dusk by birds – especially crows, starlings, thrushes, and gulls – shapes their lives, but the birds themselves can also radically alter the physical landscape itself. For centuries naturalists and artists have responded to this remarkable avian behaviour. In turn both the birds and their human observers help inform the way all of us see place and nature.
In a mixture of words, photographs and moving images, British author and naturalist, Mark Cocker, explores these issues in a presentation uniquely written for The Arts Institute, as part of our exploring...
Plymouth Arts Centre presents Land/Sea (Tir/Môr), a major new photographic exhibition by Wales-based artist Mike Perry.
Perry’s work engages with significant and pressing environmental issues, in particular the fragility of the planet's ecosystems (be that land or marine), and the tension between human activity and interventions in the natural environment.
Land/Sea includes selected works from Perry’s Môr Plastig series, in which he collects and forensically photographs plastic objects such as bottles, shoes and packaging washed up...
