Arcade …in collaboration with Eden Arts
arcade is an artist-led initiative which aims to encourage the bringing together of artists and creative practitioners working in broad ranging art forms, and to organise openly accessible events in public ‘non-gallery’ spaces.
Projects to date have been organised specific to a Victorian built walkway Lowther Arcade in Carlisle city centre, [...]
Artists Janis Young and Chris Hurford are in occupation in an empty unit in Penrith’s Devonshire Arcade until February 14th. They both want the public to interact with them working, come in and have a chat…!
You can hear Chris Hurford’s BBC radio interview by clicking these links:
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An exciting exhibition of contemporary art opens in Carlisle on Saturday 30th January at The University of Cumbria.
Dates
Saturday 30th Jan – Friday 5th Feb (closed Sundays)
Times
10am-4pm
Location
University of CUmria
Caldewgate Campus
Newcastle Street
Carlisle CA2 5UF
Tel: 01228 400670
Bonavox, a Latin phrase that translates to Good Voice, is a curated exhibition of new work by Cumbrian-based emerging artists.
The exhibition consists [...]
M6-M3 Unterwegs/Underway in Berlin is an international project sparked by a visit to Berlin made by artists from the Cumbria Network in the North West of England.
The resulting touring exhibition includes work by German artists who live and work in Berlin and share the same commitment to international networking.
The exhibition coincides with the [...]
Music and memories, thrift and thread for the Highlights Spring season
The new Spring season brochure is out from the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme for Cumbria and Durham. It includes details of fifteen exciting shows covering the whole range of performing arts and also has information about this year’s Contemporary Craft Tour, Thrift & Thread.
Performances for [...]
From mid-day on the 11th January through until the 17th visitors to Carlisle’s Cathedral will find a new addition to the surrounding architecture in distinction as set within the Cathedral will be a temporary art installation created by local artist Caroline Dalton.
The piece has been created to support Carlisle’s recent bid submission towards being UK [...]
Earlier this year, a condemned terraced house in Barrow-in-Furness was given a final lease of life as the Carlisle-born artist, Maddi Nicholson, took an inflated, scale model of the original on a tour of Cumbria. With windows protected by metal grilles against burglary and vandalism, the house’s doppelganger looked like the embodiment of urban decay [...]
The Eden district of Cumbria is home to many professional visual artists – painters, printmakers, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, and feltmakers – who live and work in solitary studios tucked away in the countryside. Art in Eden 2009 celebrates this wealth of artistic talent in the district by offering a rare chance to meet artists in [...]
Hi all you Friends of Potfest.
If you came to the Park this year, glad you could make it and thanks for braving what might have been a very wet weekend.
If you couldn’t get there, get a flavour of what you missed with this year’s slide show www.potfest.co.uk/parkSLIDES09/parkSLIDES09.html and the page showing the competition [...]
Highhead Sculpture Gallery have announced the details of their latest exhibition. Besides the latest gallery exhibitions, they also have a Farmhouse Tea room, Farm Shop and the Spa & Sculpture Valley to enjoy. The details of the latest exhibitions are:
13th August – 13th October 2009
‘Animal Spirit’
Caroline Fulton
‘Recent works’
Glynnis Carter
‘Uplands’
Sandra Hammer
‘Summer sketches’
Sarah Manders
‘Light, texture and composition’
Tim [...]