art galleries

Nick Hand and the print bike

Exhibition: Journeyman - stories of craft from a bicycle

Event Date: 
18/01/2020 - 10:00am to 08/03/2020 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Jubilee Gallery

Curated by Nick Hand and The Letterpress Collective, this exhibition brings together photography, film, letterpress prints, and the words of makers who dedicate their life to an unusual or rare craft or passion. Nick gathered these stories on epic cycle rides: from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, round the coast of Britain and Ireland and up the Hudson River - with a printing press on the back of his bike.

Open daily, 10am - 5.30pm. Free entry.

Devon museums part of national scheme

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 04/15/2014 - 5:04pm

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery are to be part of a national programme of pioneering collaborations between artists, museums and audiences.

Thanks to major funding support from Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme, New Expressions 3 (NE3) will bring together 15 museums from across England in partnership with the National Trust and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.

As part of the programme each museum or heritage site will commission and work with an artist who will produce new work in response to the...