A beautiful artwork commissioned jointly by Land Securities and Exeter City Council and designed by international artists Studio Roso, is being installed at the top of Southernhay on the curved wall of Princesshay’s car park.
The installation commemorates Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Golden Jubilee visit to Exeter in May 2012.
All of Studio Roso's designs are inspired by the location of the artwork. The artwork draws inspiration from the Copper Beech tree that used to stand in this location, and which had to be removed due to a fungal disease....
gloss-Art Exeter is now stocking these beautiful hand-made Christmas decorations by Bollywood Christmas. Carefully crafted, each bauble is delicately hand painted and sold at very affordable prices.
On top of this, the production helps provide employment for traditional artisans in Kashmir, Rajasthan and Dehli! Buy in store or over the phone today.
An opportunity has been created for contemporary artists to explore how printmaking can extend and evolve their practice.
Double Elephant Print Workshop (DEPW) is keen to reach out to contemporary artists and are particularly interested to encourage crossover between different practices. They are looking for artists with a genuine curiosity about printmaking, but have not included it so far as part of their practice. The organisers are not looking for artists who already use printmaking.
Over six evenings, the selected artists will work at DEPW to...
Unique works of art created using specialist equipment at the University of Exeter are on display in an exhibition that showcases the diverse potential of the technology.
The University’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) invited 30 professional artists to work with its engineers on its “3D printers”, which build up an object layer by layer.
Dr Sara Flint , commercial manager of CALM, said: “This collaboration was an extremely exciting opportunity for us to work with 30 artists who all had very different creative ideas about how they could...
Two local girls have had a close encounter with a gorilla named Herbert.
Torbay Carnival Ladies-in-Waiting Natalie Sedgeman and Meesha Ghovanloupoor met the life-size sculpture at Paignton Zoo.
Herbert, who is 140cms (nearly 5 feet) tall, is the special guest at the Zoo’s traditional charity fundraiser, the Mistletoe Ball, which takes place at the Grand Hotel on 1st December. He was painted by Paignton Zoo artist Sue Misselbrook.
The Mistletoe Ball is Paignton Zoo’s traditional Christmas black tie charity dinner and dance. Guests will enjoy a champagne reception,...
Exeter's Northcott Theatre is offering an exciting half term of workshops with veteran UK hip-hop dance artist Banxy . As one of the original practitioners of the b boy/b girl, street and hip-hop genre, he has taught the core fundamentals of this ever-popular art form to participants for over 20 years.
All his workshops offer participants the chance to learn new and challenging moves, explore their own creativity and engage positively with others whilst learning in a fun and safe environment.
Banxy's workshops are suitable for those aged 7 yrs+ and are...
A new partnership between Exeter Phoenix and The University of Exeter’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) has enabled 30 artists to explore the possibilities offered by 3D printing. Neoreplicants , a new exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, showcases the artwork created using this incredible technology.
Given training and access to CALM’sfacilities, artists were able to create objects in computer modelling software, that were then printed through a process of laser sintering - whereby granules of a densely packed nylon powder material are welded together by laser, layer-by-...
A Symphony of Curves is a rare opportunity to see the art of the architectural sculptor at close quarters and learn about the development of the craft of plasterwork over four centuries.
Geoffrey Preston is one of the UK’s most highly-regarded architectural sculptors. He specialises in decorative plasterwork and has created award-winning work for buildings all over the country from his workshop in Exeter.
The exhibition includes beautiful decorative plaster panels together with design drawings and photographs of some of his principal commissions. The centrepiece of...
Join the National Campaign for Drawing at the Devon Guild this year - with 2 free fun days for the whole family. Creative activities take place in the Guild gallery and are inspired by artist Michael Honnor's current exhibition of atmospheric landscape prints - and this year's Big Draw theme: 'Every Drawing Tells A Story'. Help us save the world from a weather disaster by adding your own superhero to a giant, graphic storyboard. And you can create your own extreme weather mobile to take home.
Free, drop in event. Supervised, all materials provided. Children...
