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Shropshire Visual Arts

Shropshire Visual Arts Homepage

Welcome to the website that promotes the visual arts in Shropshire. It is designed and maintained by Visual Art Network volunteers and aims to bring all Shropshire visual art information into one place. It has now taken the place of the old VAN website on a trial basis. Sections of the site are being developed. We would welcome any feedback about this new site so  Contact us if you have anything to say or want to include information here. If you are an artist and would like a page on this site just join VAN.

We would like to hear from all artists in Shropshire so please click this link to introduce yourself.

Visual Art News

Gallery Live Launched in Shrewsbury

The Visual Art Network Trust would like to invite you to the new Galleries Live at 27 pride Hill, Shrewsbury.

The Visual Arts Network has successfully refurbished the old Burger King shop.

The venture is a collaboration with Made in Shropshire and VAN.

Made in Shropshire has the centre gallery and shop and the VAN trust is in the other with a programme of exhibitions which will reflect the creative diversity we have in Shropshire, the borders and beyond.

Opening times are Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm

Please come along and view it for yourself and let us know what you think.

Units to Let

Two Units to Let - Posenhall, Broseley, Shropshire.

Unit 10 is 1037 sq ft and has 3 phase electricity, wood burner, outside storage area, internal office/kitchen separate from workshop and will be in the region of £360 per month.
Unit 6 is 612.5 sq ft and is up some external stairs. It has a laminate floor, exposed beams, a wood burner and lots of character. It will be in the region of £300 per month.

Contact the Willey Estate for further information. 01952882133. or e-mail  jemma@willeyestates.co.uk

SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE  - Open for applications

We are currently seeking submissions for the inaugural SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE selected by Mike Sperlinger (Assistant Director - Lux), and Zineb Sedira (artist working in Photography, Video and installation).

40 - 50 artists working in video and video installation will be selected for the first of our annual video 'Salon' exhibitions that will take place at our Project Space, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG, opening on Thursday 4th March, 2010.

There is a selectors' prize of £800 for a chosen exhibitor.

Please visit www.salonartprize.com and read the section marked 
'How to apply'

The deadline for DVD submissions is 5pm, Saturday 23rd January, 2010. 

If you have any questions please email salon10@mattroberts.org.uk

Imperfectly Natural

An exhibition of paintings and reliefs by Andrew Howe, exploring rhythm, transition and connections will run from Saturday 16th January to 22nd February 2010.  

The venue is the Gateway Arts Centre, Chester Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1NB (tel.  01743 355159) and is open Mon – Fri 9am to 9.30pm, weekend opening varies.

Natural cycles and the birth of a baby daughter, Eliza, are a source of inspiration to Andrew.  He has contemplated the links and changes taking place at this time when a new generation emerges.  


The work here focuses on hands, as a symbol of our unique identity, but also as a means of feeling, connecting with, and exploring the world.

Beyond this brief moment when two hearts beat in resonance, it is the realisation of a parent, and later the child that, however strong the bond between them, or with other loved ones, we are all alone.  


For further information:

Email: andrew@andrew-howe.com
Web:  www.gateway-gallery3.co.uk

Fragment 3 Female Power

Fri 4 December – Sun 17 January

An exhibition of work by Ursula Bayer: the third show in the 'Fragment' cycle dealing with the essence of human life, Birth, Love and Death.   Ludlow Assembly Rooms Gallery, admission free.

An exhibition of work by the IMPACK Artists.  Seven people linked by loose family connections and whose works are diverse in subject matter, form and style.   Admission free, Ludlow Assembly Rooms Café Gallery.
Friday 4 Dec – Sunday 17 Jan

Enquiries 01584 878141
www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk

 

Meetings in the Middle of Somewhere

Wren Miller has just started 18 months of Arts Council England funded research and development, seeking for new materials to build and inspire with. She begins a range of experiments and eco encounters to blog, feed and share on her website-in-development.
Follow her travels at Follow her blog.

Her show called ‘Meetings in the Middle of Somewhere’ was part of Black History Month, and was a response to travelling for two months in Mali, West Africa, studying the incredible mud architecture and meeting Mali’s unique mix of Muslims and Animists, in the Tuareg, Dogon, and Bambara tribes.

 

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