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Visual Art News

COLLABORATE

A group of Shropshire based artists and designers, curated by VAN member Helen Foot and including
members Sam Pooley and Richard Foot, will be showcasing their work in an exhibition at The Hive Music and Media Centre in Shrewsbury. From the 30th November to 20th January.
COLLABORATE will showcase a series of interdisciplinary projects which have been happening in Shrewsbury over the past six months. From fashion to film, branding to blurbs, the show documents a rising trend in skill sharing. The projrects are live added and taken away throughout the course of its opening. The public are also given the opportunity to revisit the gallery, to follow the steady progression of ideas and view resolved pieces at the end.

Exhibits include work by the ëNew Facesí, a group of the hottest young designers in Shrewsbury set up and nurtured by VAN member Sam Pooley. There are also new works by Richard Foot and Arron Fowler.

visit http://collaborate-shrewsbury.blogspot.com/

 

BELOW THE SURFACE

In an exhibition at The Edge Arts Centre Much Wenlock, Below the Surface shows the latest paintings by Artist Wren Miller

Her artworks are made with soil, rock and organic detritus, materials gathered from various sites in Shropshire, including Fordhall Organic Farm, an island in the River Severn and Wenlock Edge.
Wren’s painting techniques are like conversations, dialogues of actions and reactions an artist’s exploration of the behaviour of soils in simulated geological conditions. Forces of pressure, abrasion,
heating and freezing are applied, responses weighed and arrested at a point of aesthetic satisfaction, when Wren feels the earth has spoken.

Below the Surface is a show full of abstract imagery, faux landscapes and symbolism, open to interpretation; they seek to involve the viewer in seeing both the macro and the micro at the same time.
The back ground image album to this work can be found on:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150475248054935.419684.705184934&type=1&l=558a1db401
The show is open to the public 9-4pm daily except 5th, 12th, 14th, & 15th of December when it will stay open
till 8.30pm


The Visual Art Network Market Hall Art Gallery

Level 2

Claremont Road,Shrewsbury town centre.

 

The Visual Art Nework Galleries Live project at the Shrewsbury Market Hall.

See Galleries Live Page for more information

 

VAN members DASH continue their popular workshops at the DASH SPACE, Unit 4 Hartley Business centre, Monkmoor Road, SY2 5ST.


Workshops for 2012 include three Open Visual Art Workshops on 10th January, 13th March and 15th May. Use DASHís paints and paper, or bring materials from home and meet up with like-minded people for a
relaxed creative day. Fee £5 or £3 concessions.

Also lined up is a Glass Workshop on 7th February and a Sculpture Workshop on 17th April. Places are limited so book early to avoid
disappointment. Fee £20 or £10 concessions.
Please bring your own lunch. To book on the workshops
Contact paula@dasharts.org or telephone 01743 272939.


Galleries Live Telford have a Gift Idea for Christmas The gallery is then cutting its commission to 20% and only charging £2 on all submitted artwork as a gift right back to you. Galleries Live is at Unit 7 Hazledine House, Central Square, Telford.
There may be some Christmas socials too. Keep up to date by liking the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Galleries-Live-Telford/154303527977567  

 

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