Special Events @ Broomhill
We have more events taking place this year than ever before, from art exhibitions, poetry evenings, festivals, and good food fairs, to world-class Jazz concerts, a variety to entertain a mixture of tastes. We hope you will join us to enjoy the delights in store. We are pleased to be a part of the fantastic North Devon Festival again this year, see the what’s on list of events below.
Drawing Spring at Broomhill Sculpture Gardens
20-22 April 2010
Join the Bristol School of Drawing for three days of drawing, experimentation, inspiration and fine food.
Draw with the group or on your own. Learn, experiment and indulge yourself with the time for drawing and developing into print. More information and booking here or call 0845 680 1409.
National Sculpture Prize Finalist Exhibition
From June - through to 2011
The Broomhill Art and Sculpture Foundation launched a brand new and unique national sculpture competition last year, set to provide an exciting challenge for new and emerging UK based sculptors.
The judging panel, including internationally renowned sculptors Sandy Brown, Giles Penny and Peter Randall-Page, selected ten finalists in February 2010 to turn their proposed ideas into inspiring, celebrated finished pieces. The final ten sculptures will be unveiled at an outdoor exhibition beginning in June 2010.
Be prepared to have your art critic hat on when you visit, as we’ll be asking you to choose a winner! You will be able to cast a vote for your favourite work online and at Broomhill.
Square Picture Show - Affordable Art by Local Artists
In the Stables - Free entry
05-30 June 2010 • Wed to Sun • 11:00-15:30
North Devon Arts Members will be responding to the 50 year celebration of the AONB by showing artworks inspired by the land and seascapes of North Devon.
The maximum price is £150, so this is a golden opportunity to buy original, affordable art in a variety of media.
Art Exhibition - Mike Woollacott
In the Gallery - Free entry
Throughout June • Wed to Sun • 11:00-15:30
Mike is an artist living in North Devon. The local environment has become a constant source of his inspiration. The Taw Estuary with its bleak winter light and the rural landscape of North Devon with its narrow lanes and hedgerows of majestic oak trees bordering meadows rich in flowers and grasses are a stimulus for Mike’s art.
Art Exhibition - Peter Bright
In the Gallery - Free entry
Throughout June • Wed to Sun • 11:00-15:30
Peter Bright presents ‘Topiary for Beginners’. Creating images is balancing on the knife edge that teeters between success and failure. A brushstroke out of place is like cutting the beak off a privet peacock, it takes time for it to grow back and reshape. Peter revisits his compositional ideas, formed in the late 70’s, to discover how his skills have ‘matured’.
New Year New Work 2010
17 Jan - 13 Mar 2010
Wednesdays to Sundays • 11:00-15:00
An opportunity to see the freshest work from North Devon Arts artists - a varied show of art forms, with new and surprising work. The exhibition is divided into two separate smaller exhibitions, to provide a more considered gallery show and to allow artists more space.
‘Meet the Artists’ for each exhibition: Sun 17 Jan 2010 at 14:30 and Sun 14 Feb at 16:30 - all welcome.
Alain Kurylo
Art Installation by Alain Kurylo
From the talented, French artist Alain Kurylo.
An exciting new outdoor installation of sculptural silhouettes shaped in steel and ceramic figures on the floodplain at Broomhill. From Jun 09 onwards.
Jazz at Broomhill
Monthly Jazz Evenings with the best of contemporary jazz. These evenings book up early - so don't delay in looking at the details here...
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Installation by Laury Dizengremel
New Installation ‘Artists of the Silk Road’ by Laury Dizengremel from May 2008.
After a busy year in 2007, having been commissioned by the ATP, governing body of the men’s professional tennis circuit, to create sculptures of the best eight tennis players in the world as ‘Tennis Terracotta Warriors’ Laury Dizengremel has created a new installation for Broomhill. The installation will be a follow-on from the current three large ‘Artists’ sculptures taking its audience further on the journey with the ‘Artists of the Silk Road’. 102 figures in resin on 21 steel platforms and 27 figures in bronze on 9 bronze platforms will be located on the flood plain of the Broomhill river.
North Devon Arts
North Devon Arts is a friendly and informal networking group of professional and amateur artists and anyone with an interest in the arts. Our current membership includes painters, potters, graphic designers, textile artists, writers, sculptors, furniture makers, print makers, photographers, stained glass artists, teachers and others with an interest in the arts. You do not have to be a practising artist to join - membership is open to anyone.
More information and details of meetings and events is here.
