| River 1st-29th June Old Passage Inn, Arlingham, GL2 7JR from 11.00am (closed Mondays) tel: 01452 740547 www.walkingtheland.org.uk Britain’s longest river provides the subject for this exhibition. This dramatic river flows through Gloucestershire and close to ‘The Old Passage’ on it’s 354 km journey to the sea. Includes works by painters, printmakers, photographers and sculptors who examine it’s visual, historical, cultural and ecological impact, Their subject is this River, the communities who make their living close to it’s volatile waters and those that come simply to wonder at it’s dramatic journey. River Severn ArtWalk  |
Soma: Paintings from the Savage Mind 1st-30th June Wed - Sat 11am to 5pm or by appointment Unit 4 Gallery, Farrs Lane Nelson Street, Stroud, GL5 2HH www.unit4studio.com/Soma.html This group of young artists all attended Stroud art college around the turn of the century. Now they return to Stroud with a selection of new and exciting paintings in an exhibition entitled Soma – painting from the savage mind. The title for the show is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. Soma is the wonder drug of the future that the government prescribes to its citizens to keep them in a constant state of bliss. The savage is a character born outside the realms of state control and becomes the seed of decent in this dystopian image of the future. The exhibiting artists are Alex Crocker, Adam Crossland and Laurence Owen and Matt Curtis. |
A Slice of Me at The Boy’s Club 6th-18th June Monday-Friday 11am-4pm Saturday & Sunday 10am to 6pm Nailsworth Boys Club Nailsworth, Stroud, GL6 0HH www.naart.co.uk Nailsworth Boys Club is the venue for the NA ART Collectives exhibition of values that develop and stimulate the creative process, with flights of the imagination, including Sculpture, Illustration and Techno guile. With a cross media experience, the show aims to criteria the need for social change and engagement with young and old alike. The experience will be set against the backdrop of the pseudo Gothic, Art Deco, Prefab interior and exterior of what has become known as an almost derelict icon of social inclusion. Their aim: To suggest the possibilities of it’s future with active stimulation provided by the unlimited process of Art. Not Applicable Art aims to be provocative, sensitive and as applicable as you want it to be, “for true beauty is in the eye of the beholder." next >>> |
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site08 contemporary drawing exhibition: Lucy
Voeckler drawing; site07 darbyshire award at Museum in the Park:
River Severn Artwalk, Kel Portman/Walking the Land.
