[ad_1] A year ago, art gallery owner Tabby Booth was scrolling through eBay when a painting of a whale caught her eye. “I wasn’t even browsing for work,” said Booth, who set up the Sailors Jail gallery in Falmouth, Cornwall, with her husband, James Heslip, in 2023. “It was just for my own interest. But
[ad_1] Acomb Explore Library has launched a free ‘Creative Cafés’ project for adults, led by Izzy Williamson and Gracie Richmond, from the end of this month (October) at the facility in Front Street. Volunteers from within the York suburb are invited to take part in the six-week programme which is designed to help them ‘explore
[ad_1] Climate change could hardly be described as beautiful but as Britain rapidly became industrialised in the 19th century JMW Turner painted stunning multicoloured smoggy skies and landscapes rapidly transformed by the pollution from industry and burgeoning cities. And whether he made a deliberate effort to show it, much of this art became a record
[ad_1] Within the oak-panelled walls and glass display cases of the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum – a long, impossibly high-ceilinged room that is a temple to the gods of reason and imperialism – there is a little unmarked secret door, leading backstage or who knows where. You would never spot it unless you
[ad_1] A FURIOUS son says his late mum’s ‘artivist’ neighbour is a nightmare after leaving a mound of ‘rubbish’ to build up in his garden for years. John Kirby has been forced to take mum Doreen Moore’s house off the market after struggling to sell it due to the “eyesore” pile. 13 John Kirby is
[ad_1] Two years ago, his installation The Procession, a carnivalesque parade of almost 150 life-sized figures in glittering masquerade, filled Tate Britain’s neoclassical Duveen Galleries to jubilant effect. Simultaneously attractive and, as he once put it, “scarily surreal”, it was, Locke says now, “a complex piece”, touching on various topics including the slave trade and
[ad_1] Ian Irvine started his creative journey in Warrington 50 year ago, when he fell in love with art. When he was 16, Ian started a two-year course at the former Warrington College of Art and Design. Ian found himself pulled in another direction though, and pursued a career in music in Liverpool before moving
[ad_1] EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY: Overall Secondary Winner 2024 – Roses are red violets are blue – Mia McKeever of Weatherhead High School Edge Hill University is supporting the launch of the 13th annual dot-art Schools programme, an initiative that encourages artistic talent among schoolchildren across the Liverpool City Region. The programme invites Year 5 and
[ad_1] He was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 10 days rehabilitation activity and 50 hours unpaid work in the community. A Banksy mosaic was recovered when police searched the home of Scrivens’ partner Rebecca Mills, from Ebbw Vale. The court heard she allowed £22,000 to pass through her account. Her sentencing was adjourned
[ad_1] The UK arts minister Chris Bryant was quizzed at a Frieze Masters talk yesterday about whether the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will receive a much-needed funding boost in the forthcoming Labour government budget on 30 October. “I think we need to look at the whole package of how money gets into