Category: Arts & Crafts

World premiere of Henry Bruce’s Horizon Cube on The English Riviera
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World premiere of Henry Bruce’s Horizon Cube on The English Riviera

Cockington Court Craft Centre will host the world premiere of Henry Bruce’s Horizon Cube exhibition from Friday 22 July to Monday 29 August.
The Horizon Cube is Henry Bruce’s first piece of outdoor sculpture since his Dartmoor Chair creation, and has links to the landscape, both in the literal sense and through imagination.
Horizon Cube comprises man-made [...]

Help Create A Hazel Cloud At Cockington Court
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Help Create A Hazel Cloud At Cockington Court

Children and adults are being invited to help create a public piece of land art at Cockington later this month.
One thousand hazel sticks will be used to create the Hazel Cloud at Cockington Court Craft Centre from Friday 22 July to Wednesday 27 July, as part of Art on the English Riviera 2011.
The sticks range in [...]

Alan and his motorcaravan
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Torquay Retirement: One Man and his Motorcaravan!

Are you coming up to retirement or ever wondered what you might get up to when you leave full-time employment?  Well how about taking up Alan’s hobby…build your own motor caravan!
Alan, a resident of Shiphay with the Willows and an active member of the community as an Executive of the Willows Community Association, has spent [...]

Budding Artists Invited To Make Their Mark On The Bay
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Budding Artists Invited To Make Their Mark On The Bay

Local budding artists are being invited to put their creative talents to the test and make their mark on the Bay.
Torbay Council has joined forces with Creative Torbay, the Torbay Development Agency and GVA Grimley to offer young people from the Bay the opportunity to work with nationally renowned, local street artists Graffiti Workshop, and [...]

Torbay Schools Festival of Performing Arts
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Torbay Schools Festival of Performing Arts

The 7th Torbay Schools Festival of Performing Arts involving hundreds of young people gets underway tonight.
The ten day festival of competitions and concerts is supported by the Torbay Academy of Performing Arts (TAPA), the Torbay Council run music advisory service. It gives individuals and schools across Torbay the opportunity to showcase their musical talents.
The musical [...]

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So. A blog. About books.

Welcome to the second Bryce and Hannah blog!  [this is Hannah writing while Bryce is baking chocolate chip cookies in Epicentre's kitchen].
See, the problem is, I love reading. Writing about reading, though? That’s just another way of saying “book report”… And I was never any good at getting book reports written.
So, here I am, a [...]

Dave Smith: An Artist At Work
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Dave Smith: An Artist At Work

Dave Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Signwriting circles with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and mirrors. It is fair to say that now a days this is the main thrust of his work. There is, however, more to his story.
To understand Dave’s work a little more and appreciate the [...]

Devon Art Society Winter Exhibition
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Devon Art Society Winter Exhibition

Award winning local artist Diana Davydova would like to invite you to the Winter Exhibition of The Devon Art Society.
20th Nov 2010 – 28th Nov 2010
This event is a display of selected art works at the Unitarian Hall which is located on Montpellier Road near the centre of Torquay. Established, South Devon artists are displaying [...]

Damien Hirst piece comes to Torquay
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Damien Hirst piece comes to Torquay

This year Torbay Council is borrowing art from Tate National and the Arts Council Collection for an exhibition for the Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey that includes a work by one of the world’s most intriguing, infamous and controversial artists.
Following on from the staggering success of Antony Gormley’s Field For The British Isles installation last year, a work by [...]

Exhibit Your Work Alongside Damien Hirst’s
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Exhibit Your Work Alongside Damien Hirst’s

Have your work displayed alongside one of the worlds most famous artists, Damien Hirst, at the ‘Tamed’ contemporary art exhibition being held at the Spanish Barn, Torquay.
South West artists are being given the opportunity to have their artwork displayed alongside one of the most famous artists in the world. Damien Hirst’s Mother and Child, Divided [...]

Images of Torbay by Kevin Cowell
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Images of Torbay by Kevin Cowell

Here I have compiled a collection of fantastic panoramic photographs of Torbay and the south coast. The photographer is Kevin Cowell, of Kevin Cowell Photography, Belgrave Road, Torquay.
www.kevincowell.com
www.kevincowell.com
Kevin Cowell was born in Torquay and has lived in the area all of his life.  He developed an interest in photography from an early age which continued [...]