February 18, 2025

UK Art

UK Art

The Motley Crew perform shanties at Colchester Art Centre

Brightlingsea’s Motley Crew Sea Shantymen have been travelling across the UK, singing at fetes, parties, weddings and more for the past 25 years.  Colchester Arts Centre was graced with the band’s presence as they belted out their best tunes and shanties.  A Motley Crew spokesman said: “We’ve supported lots of charities over the years, but our main

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New street art murals appear in Cross Hands and Llandeilo

The artworks, created by Llanelli-based street artist Steve ‘Jenks’ Jenkins, are part of Carmarthenshire County Council’s Ten Towns Project. This project provides funding to support the economic recovery and growth of rural towns across the county. The Cross Hands piece is located on the side of the Squires and Lane Hair Academy and Salon. The

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‘Let’s finally get on with it’: V&A director voices support for UK tourist tax – The Art Newspaper

The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt, has said that overseas visitors to the UK should pay a tourist tax in a bid to bolster cash-strapped national museums. In a comment piece published in the Financial Times last Saturday (15 February), Hunt wrote: “Let’s finally get on with it and introduce a

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Art on show as popular exhibition makes return

A record-breaking 458 artworks were submitted for this year’s Northumberland Open Exhibition at Woodhorn Museum. A total of 379 pieces by amateur and professional artists have been selected for the exhibition, which opens on February 22.  The annual event celebrates painters, sculptors and glassmakers from across the North East. It comes at an exciting time

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Art on show as exhibition returns

A record-breaking 458 artworks were submitted for this year’s Northumberland Open Exhibition at Woodhorn Museum, showcasing the region’s diverse artistic talent. A total of 379 pieces by amateur and professional artists have been selected for the exhibition, which opens on February 22.  The annual event celebrates painters, sculptors and glassmakers from across the North East.

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Young Greenock painter shortlisted for New Blood Art prize

Liberty Thompson, 23, earned a Fine Art degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee in June last year. Following her degree show, the former Clydeview Academy pupil was nominated by a tutor for the Emerging Art Prize – a competition run by online gallery New Blood Art.

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‘Steamboat Willie’ horror starring ‘Terrifier’s Art The Clown gets UK release

Screamboat, a horror film based on the Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie, has found a UK distributor. The film stars David Howard Thornton, who plays Art The Clown in the Terrifier trilogy. Deadline reported that the film’s UK and Ireland rights have been acquired by Signature Entertainment, the distributor that also handled the successful release

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Immersive Van Gogh art experience returning to Liverpool

Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience will be back at the waterfront Exhibition Centre Liverpool from July 15 to August 3. The multimedia experience, which premiered in the city in 2024, will run alongside a new show, Beyond Monet, which will also make its UK debut in Liverpool. (Image: Peter Freeth) Beyond Van Gogh and

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Art, craft and civic pride of Bradford’s brutalist buildings

Buoyed on by the release of a new movie starring Adrien Body (appropriately called The Brutalist) efforts have been revived to try and get London’s landmark slab of concrete – the Southbank Centre – listed to prevent it from future alterations or even demolition. Elsewhere in the world, Chicago’s edgy 1960s City Hall has just

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Book of a lifetime: Maus by Art Spiegelman

I’m not ashamed to admit it – I do read prose books. However, being a writer and artist of graphic novels, I find myself obliged to choose one in order to champion the form in general – it’s Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Dealing with the harrowing wartime experiences of his father, Vladek, a Polish Jew and

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