Guests were welcomed with wine and canapés at the exclusive awards ceremony of The Exeter Phoenix Exeter Contemporary Open 2014 now in its tenth year. Sponsored by Haines Watts Chartered Accountants.
The exhibition is the South West’s foremost contemporary art exhibition providing an important national platform for contemporary visual artists. and is open to the public as a free-entry exhibition at Exeter Phoenix from 12th September to 1st November 2014. The winner of the prestigious £1000 award presented by Ben de Cruz of Haines Watts was Belgium-based artist Hannah Murgatroyd...
David Shrigley A talk by the Turner Prize nominated artist, best known for his humorous drawings that make witty, wry and sometimes dark observations on everyday life, giving an insight into his work practice. Shrigley’s deliberately crude graphic style has an immediate and accessible appeal, while simultaneously offering insightful commentary on the absurdities of human relationships. His work, which extends beyond drawing to include photography, taxidermy, sculpture, animation, painting, and music, is characterised by a varied use of humour and...
Tue 27 May 2014 - Sat 28 Jun 2014 Catherine Cartwright - To Still The Raging Sea New prints and paintings arising from the artist’s residency in a women’s refuge funded by Arts Council, Exeter Arts Council and Visual Arts South West. With thanks to SAFE (Stop Abuse for Everyone).
MORE INFO: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/catherine-cartwright/
Gallery Opening Times: Mon – Sat: 10am-5.30pm. Entry is FREE.
Marie von Heyl Of Occasional Tables and Alternative Endings This exhibition of new work by Berlin based Marie von Heyl employs video, installation, drawing and text to explore an ongoing interest in domestic interiors and mundane objects that is central to her practice. Her work playfully dances around things, pointing at the unexpectedly beautiful, tracing the uncanny and tapping into the absurd. Often triggered by linguistic nitpicking, she aims to catch objects in the act of...
Tue 13 May 2014 - Sat 12 Jul 2014 A new, site specific, sculptural installation by Anne Deeming who designs and makes objects that look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Her works exist as amalgamations of everyday utilitarian objects with features that can trigger multiple associations with something the viewer has used or seen before. She is interested in the areas of slippage between the familiar and foreign, domestic and industrial, the useful and useless. By examining the role that expectation and memory plays in our reading and understanding of objects, the pieces...
Life After Brain Injury An exhibition by Headway Devon Pictures in a range of mediums by clients of Headway Devon that illustrate an individual’s journey following brain injury. This insightful exhibition shows the reality of life after brain injury, and reveals both surprising positives as well as the darker side of learning to cope after such trauma. Headway Devon Headway Devon has over 17 years of experience in supporting people with brain injury. The people they work with are from all walks of life, but all have survived life changing...
Elizabeth Jardine is a British artist who has recently relocated to Exeter from the South East. This new body of work explores the interplay of structural and architectural elements within a nebulous and ambiguous painterly landscape. Elizabeth’s work is concerned with the in-between-space, with limbo and wilderness. She oscillates between negotiating a balance and accepting a dichotomy, reconciling presence and absence, choice and chance, belonging and un-belonging. VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX CAFE BAR GALLERY
http://www.spottedsheep.com has launched a range of fine art cards which includes designs from several local artists. spottedsheep.com works with local and international artists to create high quality fine art greeting cards for love, life and times and sells them exclusively through its online store. Scouring the internet for potential contributors to its range of greeting cards, spottedsheep.com found plenty of talent close to home, with eight of its twenty artists residing in the South West.
21st December 2013 7.15pm - Late *3 Adv. £10 on the door
The amazing PHONIC CHRISTMAS PARTY is back!
The Phonic Screwdriver Radio Show in conjunction with Mojo Jones Entertainment proudly present an OUTRAGEOUS night of AWARD WINNING Burlesque, Comedy,AWARD WINNING Bands , DJs and much much more!The night also includes a late bar guaranteed to help with the party atmosphere!
Enter into the Christmas spirit with burlesque routines based around films, Comics and TV like The Nightmare before Christmas, Godzilla, Doctor Who,...
A new event called The Money taking place at Exeter's Guildhall invites players to spend money. Not fake money, real money. On a table will be a pile of cash and the participants or 'Benefactors' have to unanimously agree what to spend the collective money on. The group will only have two hours to decide. There are no rules and players can be as creative as they like as long as they keep within the law.
Taking place in Exeter’s Guildhall where the council make their decisions, The Money playfully poses questions about value, priorities and collective decision making...
