As part of Plymouth Art Weekender, The Arts Institute will be screening work by Richard Broomhall, winner of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 and by Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, recipients of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 Prize.
Richard Broomhall is an artist who works with film, installation and photography. He begins with coastal locations where subsea fibre optics make landfall, exploring how the infrastructure of fibre optic networks inscribe and intertwine the politics of corporate and national power into landscapes and citizens’ bodies. The work constitutes...
In 1850, the Royal Academy elected the painter Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865) as its 7th President, who, like its first President, Sir Joshua Reynolds, hailed from Plymouth.
Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, the National Gallery’s senior research curator in the History of Collecting, will uncover key episodes of Eastlake's 15-year tenure as 'PRA', including a broadening of its membership to encompass engravers and women artists, and his attempts to promote the institution to the outside world, notably his invitation to the press to attend the annual Academy Dinner.
Join exhibition curator and artistic director of The Arts Institute Dr Sarah Chapman for an overview of Great Artists | Great Teachers exhibition, including why each of the artists were selected and the impact they have had on art education.
Wednesday 10 Oct Time: 13:00 – 13:45 Free admission
As part of the Great Artists | Great Teachers exhibition and 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, join us for In Conversation with Sir Michael Craig-Martin RA, and Dr Sarah Chapman, Curator and Artistic Director of The Arts Institute, exploring the special character, methodologies, and value of art education at every level.
Sir Michael studied Fine Art at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and, on completion of his studies in 1966 he moved to London, where he lives today. He had his first one-man...
Inaugural Reynolds Lecture with Christopher Le Brun
Join Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, who will deliver the inaugural lecture on this special opening night of Great Artists | Great Teachers. Christopher will give us an insight to the renewal and redevelopment of the Royal Academy for its 250th anniversary and beyond.
Christopher, a painter, sculptor and print maker was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts
Great Artists | Great Teachers brings together the work of some of the most significant artists/teachers working across the 20th Century and into the present. Selected as important artists in their own right, each of the artists are recognised as being hugely influential art teachers, helping to shape the direction of art education and inspiring the next generation of artists.
Featured artists: Anthony Caro, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Hamilton, Lubaina Himid, Janice Kerbel...
Immerse yourself in a celebration of highly creative talent and enterprise; the culmination of study and practice at the University of Plymouth
This year’s Graduate Show is an inspiring exhibition of work from nearly 500 final year students across the University of Plymouth School of Art, Design and Architecture. It showcases the impressive creativity, innovation and talent of our students across a wide spectrum of disciplines, from architecture and design, to media and photography. The Graduate Show provides a platform for students to present their work publicly as budding...
Join Let's Make Art in making a personalised memory book to collect everyday treasure in. Each family will be guided in making a book complete with an image of its owner.
We'll be exploring the ways people archive their everyday lives and drawing inspiration from the exhibition in the gallery, Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict.
Let's Make Art organise high-quality events and provide a wide variety of well-resourced art workshops that are enjoyed by all ages and abilities.
Ticket information: £2.50 per child, booking advised. Children...
This exhibition of 200 photographs is drawn from the extensive collection of the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC). The AMC was first established 25 years ago as a repository for vernacular photography and ephemera relating to the First and Second World Wars. It has since grown to a total of eight million images encompassing a plethora of subject matter – not solely defined by war and conflict – collected from diverse sources all over the world.
Curated by AMC Director, Timothy Prus, Collected Shadows offers a glimpse into these extraordinary holdings. This eclectic display includes...
Join the University of Plymouth Choral Society at their singing workshop and explore a selection of Edward Elgar pieces, including: • Lux aeterna • Snow • Ave verum corpus.
There will be an informal performance at 17:30 with a retiring collection for Brain Tumour Research.
Interested singers can apply by contacting the University of Plymouth Choral Society Secretary, Jan Green: on jan.fairview@gmail.com or 01752 844899.
