Archive for the 'Visual Arts' Category

So March is almost over, Easter looms and there are murmurings in the ‘Arts ether’ of more changes to the Arts Council which, should they prove to be true remove any ‘legs’ ACE has left with which to run. Will they really merge the East region with the South East, will ACE development officers be [...]

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Surprise is a wonderful thing. Lot’s of surprises in the Arts this month, from organisations that have been forced into sudden and often dramatic closure as  funding sources dry up, to new work appearing on the horizon.
This week Anthony Gormley announced and launched (nation-wide) his latest Public Art – Fourth Plinth project (http://www.oneandother.com) [...]

A short but intense period of family history research has got me thinking. Something I’ve learnt about my ancestors in the nineteenth century was that they were itinerant, going where the work took them but staying close to family members. It must have been hard supporting large families; working as labourers, living in cramped conditions, [...]