29 March 2017: Artistic Research Seminar on Painting & Performance

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome! Papers on Painting & Performance by Jeremy Diggle & Helen Billinghurst Wednesday 29th March, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building RLB308, Plymouth University Professor Jeremy Diggle: “The Performance of Painting” Jeremy Diggle is Honorary… Continue reading 29 March 2017: Artistic Research Seminar on Painting & Performance

Dr Karen Roulstone in exhibition at Galway Arts Centre

Karen Roulstone: Dissolution (2016)

Work by Karen Roulstone, who is a lecturer in Fine Art at Plymouth University, is featured in a new group exhibition at Galway Arts Centre called Between Dog and Wolf. For this exhibition, seven artists were asked to respond to its title with existing work or with works in progress. The title refers to the… Continue reading Dr Karen Roulstone in exhibition at Galway Arts Centre

Paintings by Plymouth University researcher in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016. Photo: http://karenroulstone.com/

Dr Karen Roulstone has had two of her paintings selected for inclusion in the 248th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. Karen is Lecturer in Fine Art and programme leader for the MA Contemporary Art Practice at Plymouth University. She is also co-director of The Alamo Project, an artist led studio initiative offering a mentoring environment for emerging… Continue reading Paintings by Plymouth University researcher in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

A portrait by Martin Brooks, who is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Plymouth University, has been selected from a total of 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world for the 2016 BP Portrait Award, the most prestigious international portrait painting competition of its kind. Martin trained at the Royal College of Art… Continue reading PAINTING BY MARTIN BROOKS SELECTED FOR BP PORTRAIT AWARD AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016

Artwork by Helen Billinghurst

Crossing England an exhibition by Helen Billinghurst at the Arial Centre, Totnes Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4pm and Saturdays, 9.30am – 12noon (normally, please see below) ALL WELCOME – FREE ADMISSION Crossing England features artwork made in response to walking the twenty-first century landscape. Traces of history, memory, personal mythology, childhood games and stories… Continue reading Exhibition by Helen Billinghurst in Totnes, 13-28 April 2016

Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”

By Jody Patterson In the aftermath of unleashing a new arsenal of atomic weaponry on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 American artists struggled with the question of how to respond to the unprecedented atrocities of nuclear warfare. What could they say in the wake of the carnage wrought by the militarization of science for… Continue reading Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”