An exciting family community festival held by East Devon District Council in Honiton on Saturday featured the official unveiling of a special Queen’s Diamond Jubilee sculpture.
The new sculpture on the side of Honiton Leisure Centre has been in place for a little while, but was formally celebrated and officially unveiled at 1.30pm by East Devon District Council's Deputy Chairman, Councillor Christine Drew, as part of the event.
The mosaic sculpture was designed by six-year-old Alfie Gibbins from Fenny Bridges near Honiton after the previous EDDC Chairman, Councillor Peter...
The Guild’s annual summer exhibition by its Membership features handling pieces, samples, sketches and background material alongside finished craft work. It aims to reveal the relationships between physical objects and the emotional journey or technical processes behind their making. The exhibition runs from 29 June - 1 September 2013.
There will be a launch party with music and buffet, 5-7pm on 28 June (£7/£10).
DIY gallery competition and free craft demos every Saturday from 29 June - 31 August.
This new exhibition will feature mixed craft work by ten makers who have won awards at the Contemporary Craft Festival, which celebrates its 10th birthday in Bovey Tracey this year.
The Devon Guild has asked the winning makers to create something new – launch a new product or show something that they wouldn’t necessarily show on the stand.
Ten out of Ten shows why they are leaders in their field and what it takes to make a winner. Exhibitors include Cleo Mussi, John Luff and Helaina Sharpley. (The Contemporary Craft Festival is held over the weekend of 7 - 9 June 2013.)...
(NewsPoint) – Public outrage at Tower Hamlets council's plan to sell a prized Henry Moore sculpture has been expressed online as concerns over the safety of 'public art' are heightened.
The mayor of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest areas of Britain, decided on Wednesday to sell the 8-foot bronze statue "Draped Seated Woman" as the borough council tries to cut a deficit of around £90 million. It is thought that the piece may raise up to £20 million.
Henry Moore, who died in 1986, sold his sculpture to the council in 1962 at a knock-down price on the understanding it would...
Tue 13 May 2014 - Sat 12 Jul 2014 A new, site specific, sculptural installation by Anne Deeming who designs and makes objects that look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Her works exist as amalgamations of everyday utilitarian objects with features that can trigger multiple associations with something the viewer has used or seen before. She is interested in the areas of slippage between the familiar and foreign, domestic and industrial, the useful and useless. By examining the role that expectation and memory plays in our reading and understanding of objects, the pieces...
The sculptor Peter Randall-Page is noted for his stone carving and fascination with the complex relationship between geometry and biology.
As a prelude to his major exhibitions at Peninsula Arts and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in January, and Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton in May, we are showing a selection of his botanical drawings and prints made 1994 - 2000. ll work is for sale, and there is a 20% discount offered to Friends of CCANW.
All purchasers will be given a tour of the studio by Peter.
Peter was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University in...
