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The Ghost Bus, A Visual Adventure In The Land Of Robin Hood: A Project By Roberto Alborghetti
The Gallery, Bartons, Nottingham
Friday 27th March, 7 -9pm
The Ghost Bus, a 1956 URR 865 AEC Reliance, which spent 20 years slumbering in an open field in Suffolk, resistant to both scrapping or restoration is celebrated here in two short films. (more)
Elmina: Film Screening & Debate
27th March, 7 - 9pm
Doug Fishbone's new feature-length melodramatic film, exploring consumer culture, the mass media, and the relativity of perception and understanding presents an unusual experiment in collaboration and co-authorship. (more)
Italian & Spanish Gallery Tour
Saturday 28th March, 12 - 2pm
Join Laura Hervas and Imma Alianelli for a tour of NAE's current exhibitions. During this informal gallery tour you will learn more about the artists and have the opportunity to exchange your opinions about the shows. (more)
Introduction to Screen Print
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March, 10am - 4pm
This weekend course introduces the main principles of the technique. You will learn how to transfer an image to a silkscreen and print onto paper, in addition to exploring layering, colour, registration and stencils. (more)
Experiments with Textile Screenprinting
Saturday 4th - Monday 6th April, 10am - 4pm
This three day course will include a full introduction to screenprinting onto textiles along with a range of techniques including: creating interlocking designs for repeat, using drawn and photographic imagery, heat press techniques, foiling, flocking and puff binder. (more)
Silver Rings & Cufflinks workshop with Kate Bajic
National Centre for Craft & Design, Seaford
28th March, 10.30am - 4pm
In this second workshop running alongside her exhibition, Kate Bajic offers a chance to try your hand at designing and creating both a ring and a pair of cufflinks in silver. Ideal for making gifts for family and friends. (more)
Sound Forms by Warren Shaw
Rooftop Gallery, Northampton
1st - 30th April
‘Sound Forms’ sonic and visual artist Warren Shaw's first solo show was awarded to him as part of the Watch This Space Prize from the annual Corby Open exhibition in 2013. (more)
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With the debate about open submission exhibitions maintaining a steady simmer, occasionally bubbling to the surface with a burst of controversy and with Tarpey Gallery's Midlands Open re-entering the fray later this year, we must congratulate those artists who 1. are brave enough to enter in the first place, 2. are selected as exhibitors and 3. are successful in winning awards, and remember that many artists of note have an open submission or two somewhere in their exhibition history. And so to the winners.
Nottingham Castle Open 2014 may seem like aeons ago now but its impact is probably only now beginning to be felt as the winners take receipt of their prize money or work through the detail of their opportunities. The Harley Open Exhibition, Rutland Open Exhibition 2015* and Leicester City's Open 26 are ongoing. Lincoln's biennial OPEM returns in 2016. We will wait to see what next year brings.
Our congratulations go all the winners, and we wait to see what next year will bring!
* Rutland now also runs a successful Open Youth Art Exhibition
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Leicester Print Workshop's Big Move studio & workspace opportunities
Leicester's getting a new cultural asset. No, not Richard III's remains. Although it's getting them too.
Leicester Print Workshop is currently raising funds and making plans for its Big Move to Leicester’s cultural quarter, next to Two Queens and round the corner from the Phoenix, Makers Yard, Curve and LCB Depot. The ground floor will be a flagship printmaking studio with education and exhibition spaces, a kitchen and room for members to read and to have a cuppa. The upper floor will have LPW’s offices and framing room. This floor will also house studios & workspaces.
LPW is considering options for the layout and arrangements for the studios & workspaces, and is inviting expressions of interest from organisations and individuals who might want to share the space. Selection is governed by certain criteria but essentially LPW is looking at a combination of private hire studios, common space, longer term rentals and day hire. If you're interested in finding out more drop LPW an email
To celebrate the move to new premises, LPW is inviting artists to create new work through a series of Our Big Move Residencies, the deadline for which is Tuesday 31 March.
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