In fact 2013 marks the 13th annual Open Studios event in Peterborough which will take place 8/9, 15/16, 22/23 June. It originally started here with a handful of artists but now boasts more than 70 ready with beautiful work to inspire and delight our growing art-loving market and anyone who simply wants find out more. Garth ..
Art is yet another excuse for folk to differentiate themselves creating intellectual hierarchies which in their most insidious form exude intellectual and sometimes inadvertent social snobbery. I have a pretty profound understanding of the art market and take as much pleasure in observing behaviours in the art world in fact as I do exhibiting and ..
The ‘FindMeKeepMe’ event will take place in Cathedral Square on Saturday, March 30 from 11am to 3pm. It has been organised by Creative Peterborough – an independent funding body set up in 2011 to.. Continue Reading
The exhibition, organised by the SaferPeterborough Partnership, will remain at Central Library for one week before being displayed at two other Vivacity venues: • Regional Fitness and Swimming Centre, Bishops Road – Monday 18.. Continue Reading
With a confident, larger than life personality, she has a no messing approach to life’s challenges with little time for so called fine artists who snub her art form. And yet like so many.. Continue Reading
To cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award, select your favourite work from the exhibition, note the reference number at the bottom of the label and fill out a voting form and hand.. Continue Reading
Exhibition winner: Kat Burkinshaw Highly commended: Jack Bainbridge Highly commended: Laura Barnard The winner was awarded with a cheque for £1000 for the Maxwell Memorial first prize and the runners up each received £250.. Continue Reading
On an immediate level the profusion of glittered scarlet, almost fluorescent lime green and buttercup yellow landscapes with the trademark light blue swirly circle skies arouse instinctive feelings of joy and delight. More profoundly.. Continue Reading
When I started out, people were telling me that Peterborough was a cultural desert and that you could never sell art here. But instead of being discouraged, I just found it more of a.. Continue Reading
As a result of remarkable foresight from Peterborough Development Corporation back in the 1980’s, Peterborough owns its own Antony Gormley Sculpture – Place to Be, a series of three life-size sculptures modelled on the.. Continue Reading