Local artists are being given the chance to showcase their talents as Plymouth City Council hosts a new programme of open art displays and talks.
Inspired by Plymouth based artist Martin Bush, councillors are to open up the Council House for exhibitions, supporting the city’s creative economy. Two pieces of modern art by Mr Bush are currently on loan and being displayed in the Cabinet...
There's less than a week left to see an exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery featuring 40 portraits of artists from Paris, London and St Ives by one of the 20th century’s most pioneering female photographers.
‘Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer’ has been produced by the Museum in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. It charts Russian-born Kar’s career from some...
Artists from The Unknown Knowns will join Curator, Vickie Fear, and our Artistic Director, Sarah Chapman, for a conversation on the crossovers in their work with moving image.
Join filmmakers Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, winners of The Arts Institute Film Commission 2018 with their film, 'Of Monsters', as they discuss the development of their two-part film from their earlier ideas of writing a play.
They will also take you through the process of navigating the collection at the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA) and what they are planning on working on next.
The habit of gathering at dusk by birds – especially crows, starlings, thrushes, and gulls – shapes their lives, but the birds themselves can also radically alter the physical landscape itself. For centuries naturalists and artists have responded to this remarkable avian behaviour. In turn both the birds and their human observers help inform the way all of us see place and nature.
In a mixture of words, photographs and moving images, British author and naturalist, Mark Cocker, explores these issues in a presentation uniquely written for The Arts Institute, as part of our exploring...
Plymouth Arts Centre presents Land/Sea (Tir/Môr), a major new photographic exhibition by Wales-based artist Mike Perry.
Perry’s work engages with significant and pressing environmental issues, in particular the fragility of the planet's ecosystems (be that land or marine), and the tension between human activity and interventions in the natural environment.
Land/Sea includes selected works from Perry’s Môr Plastig series, in which he collects and forensically photographs plastic objects such as bottles, shoes and packaging washed up...
A Devon student, taking part in a prestigious exhibition, is urging local businesses and organisations to donate funds to help support the show’s marketing and publicity campaign.
Karen Sanders, who splits her time between Devon and Bristol, is one of 40 students showcasing their work at a prestigious exhibition to be held at the Bargehouse, OXO Tower in London.
See a real store on display in our gallery as we carry out the largest review of our social history collection we’ve ever done!
The collection includes a wide variety of items relating to peoples’ daily lives and features over 5,000 objects, ranging from fragments of buildings, televisions, radios, gas cookers to marbles and make up.
On certain days you’ll be able to see our curators and conservators at work in the exhibition space.
There will also be a number of opportunities for you to get involved. Come in and look at the objects we care for, write your own...
The sights, sounds and smells of Hollywood in the late 1950s and early 60s are being recreated in a Westcountry gallery.
For five weeks from April 27, Plymouth University's Peninsula Arts Gallery will host an exhibition which features a recreation of a Los Angeles coffee house, complete with authentic entertainment and a working vintage espresso machine.
The exhibition has been coordinated by Fine Art lecturer Dr Anya Lewin, whose father Max ran the Sunset Strip coffee house Chez Paulette, renowned as a bohemian hangout for actors, directors, writers and flamenco...
A new exhibition of portraits by the 20th century pioneering photographer Ida Kar opens at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 26 January.
Ida Kar, Bohemian Photographer – Portraits of Artists from Paris, London and St Ives, highlights the crucial role played by this key female photographer at the heart of the creative avant-garde.
The exhibition has been produced in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London and is derived from their 2011 show – the first museum exhibition for 50 years devoted to Ida Kar, which included nearly 100 photographs,...
