51 of the most exciting home studios, workshops, galleries and exhibition halls across the South Hams will be showing artworks inspired by the glorious South Devon coastline, from Wembury to Dartmouth as part of South Hams Arts Forum Arts Trail (18-26 October). Now in its fourth year, the trail is organised by South Hams Arts Forum, an active association of talented, enthusiastic artists and...
Patients, staff and members of the public will get the chance to vote for their favourite piece of art at a forthcoming exhibition at Derriford Hospital.
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Vinci and Devon Art Pop launched the ‘The Vinci Staff Art Prize’ last month. In total, 26 entries were received, which have now been shortlisted down to a final 12 to be exhibited at Derriford Hospital on...
An exhibition of art made out of marine litter has washed up at Living Coasts in Torquay. My Sea, Your Sea. Keep it Litter Free delivers a strong, simple message - we have to stop treating the sea like a rubbish dump.
Living Coasts Operations Manager Clare Rugg said: “This is a fantastic exhibition. It’s fun and intriguing and will appeal to all ages. As a charity, Living Coasts is...
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has become part of a consortium with museums in Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool to commission a brand new work by leading British ceramic artist Paul Scott.
The partnership is part of the Contemporary Art Society’s ‘New Story of Craft’ scheme, which encourages museums to work collaboratively so they can acquire large-scale craft pieces for their...
Eleven young people from across the city are welcoming the public to an exhibition of work from British and International artists at Radiant Gallery on Derrys Cross this month.
Tuesday 19 August will be the first in a series of five “r[eff]uge” exhibitions from Effervescent, the social enterprise that recently converted an old bank into Radiant: a cultural laboratory and tea room....
An Art History graduate from Plymouth University has become the youngest expert – at the age of just 23 – on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
Lawrence Hendra has been pursuing his passion for antique works of art since buying a piece from a flea market in his native Cornwall, and then making a profit on it, at the age of 13.
Now, a decade and several fascinating discoveries later,...
An intricate piece of artwork which took almost three months to complete has earned a Plymouth University student the top prize in a prestigious international competition.
Holly Knowles, a third year Fine Art student, won a €5,000 first prize after beating students from across Europe to the 2013 Hans Brinker Budget Trophy.
Run by the Amsterdam hotel of the same name, the...
A new scheme to enable young people to lead their own creative projects has been launched in Plymouth. New Wave is inviting young people in the city to apply for small grants of between £50 and £1500 from today until 28th March 2014.
New Wave is run by the Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) as part of their brief as the Arts Council Bridge Organisation for the South West. The scheme aims to...
Parents who conceive through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are likely to receive different medical advice in relation to prenatal testing than those who conceive naturally, academics have suggested.
An international study has revealed that almost 45% of clinicians would immediately recommend a 37-year-old mother undergo amniocentesis – an invasive prenatal test which screens...
'Selected' is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video.
Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2018, 'Selected' brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image.
Jamie Wyld, Director of videoclub, will introduce this screening of 'Selected IX'. Videoclub is an artists’ moving image platform, showing and touring film and...
