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Between 2 shores

Culture Vulture — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:48:36 +0000

The spaces along the two shores of Britain’s longest river provide the subject for the ‘Between 2 shores’ exhibition, hosted at the Old Passage Inn from 1st to 31th July. Included are works by photographers, painters, sculptors, ceramacists and printmakers who respond to the area’s landscape and the communities who make their living in this beautiful, fragile and volatile area.

River Severn ‘Art Walk’ - guided, creative walks with Walking the Land – Friday 11th June & Saturday 19th June.

These morning ‘ArtWalks’ of around 5 km along the magnificent River Severn start from The Old Passage Inn.

As you photograph and sketch, our Walking the Land artists will offer creative guidance about subject choice, technique and process.

Booking is essential. Check our website:

www.walkingtheland.org.uk or call 01452 812224 for details.

Christmas at Pangolin

Culture Vulture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:58 +0000

Join Gallery Pangolin for a festive mix of old and new with plenty of ideas for Christmas!

Gallery Pangolin’s Christmas show brings together some forgotten treasures and exciting new sculpture by gallery artists including Anthony Abrahams, David Backhouse, Jon Buck, Lynn Chadwick, Ann Christopher, Terence Coventry, Abigail Fallis, Anita Mandl, Charlotte Mayer, Peter Randall- Page and Almuth Tebbenhoff. To add just a hint of spice, we’ve also included work by artists new to the gallery, Robert Aberdein, David Bailey, Adam Binder, John Sydney Carter, Dorothy Cross and Jason Wason.

See www.gallery-pangolin.com for more details.

Gallery Pangolin

Culture Vulture — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:51:08 +0000

Gallery Pangolin opened in 1990, tucked away in the village of Chalford, near Stroud, on the slopes of the Cotswold escarpment. The gallery specialises in modern and contemporary bronze sculpture and sculptors’ drawings.

A changing selection of sculpture is always on show, including themed, group and solo exhibitions. The gallery revives the traditional association between foundry and gallery, selecting the best of contemporary sculpture cast in the workshops of leading art foundry Pangolin Editions.

The gallery works with a wide range of sculptors and is ideally placed to co-ordinate a broad spectrum of commissions in all sizes from monumental to intimate, for public bodies, private and corporate clients. More details can be found at www.gallery-pangolin.com.

Quenington Old Rectory – only every two years

Culture Vulture — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:19:01 +0000

We’re already getting excited at the thought of June’s FRESH AIR 09 set in the riverside gardens of Quenington Old Rectory, near Cirencester. It’s a mash up of traditional posh Cotswolds house and outdoor sculptures by 90 artists. The event only happens every two years and is a brilliant excuse for a weekend in the Cotswolds. In spite of there now being a vast range of gardens and parks showing contemporary work, FRESH AIR OFFERS one of the broadest range of ideas in a smallish space. Work is for sale too – from £50 up to £12,000 with one or two more expensive pieces up to £35,000.

Just taking this year’s entry on materials alone there is cement, bronze, mosaic, glass, resin, steel, wood, mixed media installation, textiles, buon fresco, ironwork, ceramic, rubber, brick, lettering, water, perspex, willow, slate, astro turf, scrap metal and sound,.

FRESH AIR is very different from an urban gallery or public art. Visitors love the chance to wander free – physically, intellectually and visually. It’s a kind of freedom and some of the sculpture is breathtaking.