Shropshire Visual Arts Homepage
Welcome to the website that promotes the visual arts in Shropshire. It is designed and maintained by Visual Art Network volunteers and aims to bring all Shropshire visual art information into one place. It has now taken the place of the old VAN website on a trial basis. Sections of the site are being developed. We would welcome any feedback about this new site so Contact us if you have anything to say or want to include information here. If you are an artist and would like a page on this site just join VAN.
Visual Art News
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Shift Time A Festival of Ideas
3rd - 12th July 2009
We are pretty excited by what’s on offer. But, to single out some of the highlights: in The Quarry Park, engineer artist Theo Jansen’s gigantic creature Umerus emerges for the very first time; Evo/Devo biologist Arjen Mulder disputes Darwin’s evolution-theory and gets some collars heated; whilst in Marcus Coates’s latest film unexpected animal sounds emanate from Shrewsbury’s townscape. There’s the dramatic new music-theatre The Weather Man (what did happen on The Beagle between Darwin and the Captain?); and an Evolutionary Tour round the town with Tim Brennan - no Darwin stone will remain unturned; and our rebellious finale event - surrealist films, live cello, and light projections.
Shift time – if Darwin were still living in Shrewsbury we’d like to think he’d come along. Festival programme director Anna Douglas
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Art in and Around Oswestry
BVA hosted their 9th Open Studios in and around Oswestry June Sat 6th & Sun 7th and Sat 13th & Sun 14th. Reports are that they had record number of visitors with an artist quoted as saying that he had 80 visitors on the final Sunday....more
New gallery in Whitchurch
Bridget and Phil Rogers have recently moved into 4 The Craft Centre, Whitchurch, Shropshire (next to the Whitchurch Heritage and Tourism Centre). They have been able to create a gallery on the top floor - primarily to showcase their own work - however, they do have available space in the future in which they wish to display changing exhibitions throughout the year....more
Gleanings
From 5th-12th September 2009 Craven Arms is hosting a festival of art and creativity under the theme of Gleanings....more
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VAN AGM Announced
The Visual Art Network AGM will be at Frank Wine Bar 7pm 20th July. Everybody is invited to attend.
Shrewsbury Open Studios 2009
Shrewsbury Open Studios took place in and around Shrewsbury Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of June 2009...more
Studio Listings
Sculpture by Jane Robins at the English Bridge Workshop featured in the 2007 Open Studio event.
Summer in the Marches
Marches Independent Photography is holding a summer exhibition in Craven Arms, Shropshire, between June 10th and July 12th 2009.
We hope the show will open people’s eyes to the world and to photographic possibilities, and we also hope it will encourage new members to join us....more
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