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How do you get a rhino and a car into Church?

Authored by Melman5
Posted: Wed, 05/17/2017 - 1:58pm

Crediton is getting ready for a new visitor.

The team at Crediton Parish Church have to produce new themes and ideas each year, which will work as an exhibition with flowers. This year's Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival theme is no exception.

Intriguingly entitled 'What's the Point...', the team will be coaxing a rhino into church, with our outside broadcast crew taking photos and video from a safe distance.

Twelve months hard work goes into the planning and preparation for the Festival. If you wish to see how our talented (and brave) team...

Sea Life: Glimpses of the Wonderful

Event Date: 
13/05/2017 - 10:00am to 17/09/2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Catch a glimpse of the magic and mystery of the world under the sea.

Through a playful mix of historic objects, film, illustrations, live creatures and contemporary craft, the exhibition combines science and art to inspire a greater appreciation of Devon’s glorious coastline for visitors of all ages.

Glimpses of the Wonderful embraces the study of the seashore from the early Victorian period, a fascination popularised by pioneer marine biologist Philip Henry Gosse who investigated and created illustrations of Devon’s coastal life.

The exhibition explores how...

A textile exhibition to raise your spirits

'Off the Surface' exhibition captures a passion for embroidery

Saturday 20 May – Sunday 9 July At Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9A 'Off the Surface' is a collaboration between the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and The Royal School of Needlework (RSN), London. This new textile exhibition showcases contemporary, hand embroidered work inspired by treasures from the past. It draws upon a world-renowned collection of 2,500 unique and priceless embroidery pieces, held at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court. The Collection also includes 60,000 designs,...

Poltimore House brought to life for a weekend of floral design

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 05/09/2017 - 7:13pm

Over St George’s Day weekend, hundreds of flower enthusiasts visited Poltimore House just outside Exeter for the first ever Poltimore Flower Festival.

Dozens of stunning floral designs staged throughout the Grade II listed property by 45 students past and present of Devon’s acclaimed Academy of Floral Art brought Poltimore House to life. “It was such a real privilege for us to bring Poltimore into bloom for St George’s Day,” said Julie Collins, Principal of The Academy of Floral Art. “At the Academy of Floral Art, we are always seeking out valuable design experiences for our...

Exhibition: Off the Surface - the art of hand-embroidery

Event Date: 
20/05/2017 - 10:00am to 09/07/2017 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey

A collaborative exhibition showcasing the art of hand embroidery, old and new. Degree students from The Royal School of Needlework have produced contemporary, hand-embroidered work inspired by treasured textiles from world renowned archives at Hampton Court Palace.

The exhibition features surface designs such as appliquéd garments, wearable sculpture, 3-D stitched drapes and hangings alongside historic purses, collars and lacework - offering a rare opportunity to see the past revived in a contemporary fashion. Main Gallery. Free entry, open daily 10am-5.30pm

Art Exhibition "Wislist" by Winnie Chan at the Oddfellows Exeter

Event Date: 
10/05/2017 - 6:00pm to 20/05/2017 - 12:00am
Venue: 
The Oddfellows - Exeter, 60 New North Road, EX4 4EP.

The exhibition explores Winnie’s vision of the capitalist world, viewing desirable commodities from different angles and often with a focus on textile products, in order to resist what she describes as her “shopaholic behaviour and temptation”. Winnie, who graduated from UAL/Chelsea College of Arts with an MA in Fine Art, paints her obsessions into her artworks.

The exhibition is curated by Julian McSweeney and Huanglu Shi for Artsalon+, and is being held in the atmospheric 1st floor room of The Oddfellows - Exeter, at 60 New North Road, EX4 4EP.

The Private View will be...

Into the Wild Abyss

Event Date: 
09/06/2017 - 10:00am to 03/09/2017 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) starting Friday 9 June will explore nature and spirituality in a time of accelerated technological change.

Contemporary artists Gordon Cheung, Rui Matsunaga and Nahem Shoa share a desire to express hope through hallucinatory, shimmering and imagined forms reflecting on the human condition. This exhibition, created especially for RAMM, brings their work together for the first time ever.

Into The Wild Abyss, takes its title from John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). The poem tells the...

Renaissance Villages launches local history exhibition alongside new collection of apartments

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/21/2017 - 2:53pm

On Wednesday 15 March, award winning developer Renaissance Villages launched an exhibition on the history of the site of Millbrook Village, Exeter’s only retirement village.

The event also marked the official opening of Buller House, a new collection of 23 two-bedroom luxury apartments, the latest phase of homes to be released at this sought-after development.

The exhibition has been curated in partnership with a local historian and explores the rich heritage of the Millbrook Village site, from Roman occupation to the thriving retirement community that it is today. It is...

Artists invited to engage with University’s inspirational research

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 03/15/2017 - 11:59am

How do you link one of the University of Exeter’s many world class research themes to an artistic vision or idea?

Well that is what south west artists are being encouraged to explore in entries for a new art exhibition.

Called the Observatory; perspectives on landscape, society and spirit, the aim is also for artists to share their observations about University of Exeter research with academics and a public audience.

The exhibition takes place this summer on the University of Exeter Streatham campus from Sunday 11 to 18 June and artists are now being invited to...

Maite’s Dartmoor

Event Date: 
04/03/2017 - 10:00am to 25/03/2017 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown

On Saturday 4 March a new exhibition of paintings by Devon based painter Maite Jenner opens at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre in Princetown.

Maite Jenner was born in the Basque city of Donostia (San Sebastian) in 1957. She was brought up in the market town of Beasain some 25 miles inland. Many of her early paintings depict the iconic Basque Mountain Txindoki which overshadows the town in which she grew up. Indeed her maiden name Maite Mendia literally means ‘Beloved Mountain,’ a phrase which perfectly embodies one of her main passions in life - art in the form of...

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