Tag: art
SIGMASIM AT BATH KOMEDIA
SigmaSim promises to be a night jam packed full of live music, DJ sets and original art work to be won. The night is a fundraiser for third year students from Bath Spa to raise money for their show in London. SigmaSim hosts a wide range of talent from music to art. Live music comes [...]
REVIEW: RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BANK OF STOKES CROFT BRISTOL
In an age of ubiquitous cameras (where the term ‘citizen-journalism’ is chucked around with abandon, every geezer with a camera-phone thinks their snapshot of a celeb counts as reportage, and shaky-cam footage from the mainstream media camped outside the kettle is considered front-line reporting), the value of a real photographers eye is greater than ever. [...]
ARTIST RECREATES ICONIC ALBUM COVERS…IN LEGO
Artist Aaron Savage has combined his love of music and Lego to recreate some of the most iconic album covers of all time in the plastic bricks. The 21-year-old used bricks and dolls to make his miniature works of art. He spent days positioning everything correctly to mirror the actual album covers. Artists covered include [...]
BRISTOL MAD HATTER’S BALL
Bristol Mad Hatter’s Ball Tickets are now on sale. Some of contemporary art’s biggest names have shown their support for Bristol’s children by donating artwork for the Mad Hatter’s Ball and Art Auction, run by Art Action for Kids. The Mad Hatter’s Ball will be held on Saturday 26 March 2011 at the Bristol Museum [...]
BANKSY ORIGINAL FOR GREENPEACE CAMPAIGN MAKES £78,000 AT AUCTION
An original art work by the legendary street artist, Banksy, for a Greenpeace Save or Delete campaign photographic poster, sold for £78,000 last night (11 January 2011) at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Urban Art sale. The unique piece (lot 67), which was given to the vendor by the artist himself, was [...]
SILAS/AMOS ARTIST JAMES JARVIS JOINS SOUVENIR ART PROJECT @CENTRAL SKATEPARK
Plymouth City Council have teamed up with design studio Intercity, Plymouth skate shop Prime Delux and renowned artist James Jarvis (creator of the Martin vinyl toy produced by Silas amongst other things) to create a piece of large scale artwork using the Central Park skateboard park in Plymouth as a blank canvas. The project, named [...]
ART STUDENTS HIT THE BEACH FOR ECO FRIENDLY CREATIVE SESSION
Students from the Saturday Arts Club at Plymouth College of Art spent Saturday on Whitsand Bay constructing huge portraits from found material as part of the Big Draw, a national initiative being run throughout October. The beach project was an extension of their studies into self portraits but it also had a significant environmental focus. [...]
