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Sat 13 Jul 2024 to Sat 17 Aug 2024

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Slow Painting

This show is a collaboration between Contemporary British Painting, StudioKIND, Barum Museum and The Plough.

 

Artists have been invited to respond to the following textt

From Slow Painting by Helen Westgeest

The fleeting nature of digital mass media appears to have unlocked a desire for more physically stable and enduring pictures, like paintings. Slow Painting charts how, in a world where the constant quest for speed can leave us exhausted, the appeal of this ‘slower medium’ has only grown" ...

 

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Tue 18 Jun 2024 to Sat 06 Jul 2024

Great Torrington School and Bluecoats

GTS welcomes you once again to their annual Art Exhibition. Showcasing the amazing creativity and artistic talents of GTS pupils across all years. Vibrant, diverse original ideas covering a variety of themes, including art and literature with our Yr 9 Iconic Fictional Character paintings, birds with attitude in our Feathered Friends project, therapeutic and mindful art outcomes and sculptural forms inspired by Alices Adventures in Wonderland. GTS pupils have explored a range of different ideas experimenting with a variety of materials resulting in some inventive and original outcomes. Come... more

Sat 11 May 2024 to Sat 15 Jun 2024

Stephanie Lamb

With drawing at its heart, my work is both representational and abstract, moving between the allegorical, the mythical and the natural worlds perpetually re-interpreted. Recent world events, both environmental and political, however, have presented... more

Sat 11 May 2024 to Sat 15 Jun 2024

Preview:
Sat 11 May 2024, 2:00pm

DUNS-LAND Drawing with tree shadows

Karen Howse

Karen Howse has been a visiting artist at Dunsland. This exhibition is a gathering of her drawings, monoprints and experiments made over the 5 years she has been re-visiting this NT Parkland. Karen’s art practice is attentive to cycles & patterns that connect; recognising the urgency of ecological collapse, longing for hope; seeing nature as talisman, balm and messenger.  Dunsland in North Devon has an intriguing history, an absent house, ancient 700 year old Sweet Chestnut trees with heavy limbs spiralling towards the sky and rare lichens that thrive in its... more

Tue 30 Apr 2024 to Sat 04 May 2024

Mayfair costumes from 2023

In the meeting room

‘Ever wondered what goes into making a Mayfair collection? Come and take a closer look. 

An exhibition featuring Mayfair costumes from 2023 and the last Carnival Queen 2022. Created by Toni Alexander, local costumier and dress maker this exhibition illustrates the creative process behind Torrington’s proud event.’more

Sat 30 Mar 2024 to Sat 04 May 2024

Preview:
Sat 30 Mar 2024, 2:00pm

StevieRay Latham

Inhabiting a liminal space; somewhere between dream and reality, imagination and memory, StevieRay Latham's practice investigates how ideas of collective memory, history and identity are created. Working from images found in archives, family photo albums, WhatsApp groups and hard drives his paintings conjure ancestral ghosts in order to question how we remember working class histories.

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Tue 26 Mar 2024 to Wed 27 Mar 2024

Kateryna Rudiakova

'There are so many things we forget about the moment they’re out of our sight… When people stop talking about it, when the news and journalists don’t report about it as eagerly, even such huge things as wars fade from our memories. To not cover our eyes and turn away from the pain and despair, this photo exhibition of Ukraine is here to remind us of what is truly Important.'more

Sat 02 Mar 2024 to Sat 23 Mar 2024

Preview:
Fri 08 Mar 2024, 6:00pm

Speaking Out: Changing Times

Speaking Out: Changing Times

In February through until April, the Plough and the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon will be working together on a series of events and exhibitions entitled "SPEAKING OUT: Changing Times” looking at protest across North Devon.

This exhibition includes work by Alison Campbell, Sue Clarke, Vicky Humphries, Daisy Xyla, Gerard Borsten, Quiet British Accent, Ruth Bateman, Kateryna Rudiakova, Jo Anson, Katie Hallett, Julie Yeo, John Baldwin, Sara Bor, Mark Haworth Booth, Speak Up Braunton... more

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