'Trans-Form' by Trevor Bell Exhibition
Find out more about the 'Trans-Form' exhibition featuring the works of Trevor Bell (1930-2017).
The exhibition is on display in the Peninsula Arts Gallery at the University of Plymouth until 26 May 2018.
Sound score by Jamie Mills.
Video tour of late Plymouth artist Beryl Cook's exhibition
A major exhibition celebrating the life and work of artist Beryl Cook is to open in Plymouth which inspired her work.
For six weeks, the University of Plymouth will host the exhibition in the Peninsula Arts Gallery in the Roland Levinsky Building.
Claire Fontaine: UK Burnt/Unburnt
The burning of 54,587 matches in the shape of the United Kingdom at KARST on 21.09.17 for We The People Are The Work.
We The People Are The Work is a major visual arts project in Plymouth that explores ideas of power, protest and the public curated by Simon Morrissey. 22.09.17 - 18.11.17.
We The People Are The Work is presented by PVAPG (Plymouth Visual Art Programming Group), a partnership between The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, KARST, Peninsula Arts at Plymouth University, Plymouth Arts Centre and The Box, Plymouth. It is part of Horizon, a collaborative two year programme of visual contemporary arts, funded through Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence fund and led by Plymouth Culture.
Plymouth Art!s weekend 2016 Peninsula Arts. Douglas Gordon. Art
Plymouth University, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA
Searching For Geinous by Douglas Gordon
Gordon was born in Glasgow and grew up in Dumbarton. He was a pupil at Dumbarton Academy between 1978 and 1983. He then studied art (at the Glasgow School of Art) from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1988-1990.
Work[edit]
Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.[1]
Monster, 1996-7, color photograph by Douglas Gordon, Private ownership- Michael Hue Williams
In one early work, Meaning and Location (1990), a passage from the Gospel of Luke is given with a comma in different places, thus subtly changing the meaning of the sentence. List of Names (1990–present) is a list of every person Gordon has ever met and can remember. One version of this is applied onto the wall of a stairwell in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos.[2] One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho so that it lasts twenty four hours.[3] In Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), William Friedkin's Exorcist (1973) and Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943) - two films about adolescent girls driven by external forces[4] - are projected on either side of a single free-standing semi-transparent screen so they can be seen simultaneously.[5] The video installation left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right (1999) presents two projections of Otto Preminger's Whirlpool (1949) side by side, with the one on the right reversed so that the two sides mirror each other; by digital means, Gordon separated individual frames of the original film so that odd-numbered ones on one side alternate with even-numbered ones on the other.[5] Feature Film (1999) is a projection of Gordon's own film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Herrmann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional responses it creates in the viewer. In one installation, this was placed at the top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's main plot points. In Through a looking glass (1999), Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic 71-second scene in Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver (1976), in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself.[2] At first, the 71-second loops are in sync, but they get progressively out and then progressively back with each repetition of the whole, hourlong program.[6]
Originally conceived as a site-specific video projection for Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea,[7] Play Dead; Real Time (2003) consists of two videos projected on two large screens showing a circus elephant named Minnie ponderously performing for an off-screen trainer in the empty, spacious, white-walled gallery room. In each projection the camera circles as the elephant walks around, lies down to play dead and gets up.[5] The footage showing
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Plymouth – A Local Guide by Premier Inn
Discover ‘Britain’s Ocean City’ with the help of our local guide to Plymouth. Find out why the city’s historic port is one of the most important in the world, what happened to the city after the infamous Plymouth Blitz, and the wonderful mixture of old and new attractions you can find around Plymouth today. We pay a visit to the Barbican and the Plymouth Gin Distillery, as well as the Plymouth Pavilions, Drake Circus Shopping Centre, the Theatre Royal, The House, and The Peninsula Arts Gallery.
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MUSEUM ON TOUR: We The People Are The Work
'We The People Are The Work' is a multi-site exhibition running until 18 November at Peninsula Arts, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth Arts Centre, The Council House and KARST.
The Council House is the venue for a commission by UK artist Peter Liversidge called 'Sign Paintings for Plymouth'. Find out more about it.
Plymouth University Fine Art Degree Show Installation
The transportation of a rusting luggage chute, the central focus of my Degree Show project by crane from Millbay Docks to Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth
Plymouth University 2012 Fine Art Degree Show
Plymouth Entertainment – A Local Guide by Premier Inn
Let Plymouth entertain you as we show you around some of the excellent music, theatre, comedy and sports venues in ‘Britain’s Ocean City’. From the Plymouth Pavilions we make our way to the Theatre Royal, the Barbican Theatre and its popular B-Bar, before stopping off at the university campus to show you The House and The Peninsula Arts Gallery.
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20 scenic seaside hotels in Great Britain
Hotel Tresanton, St Mawes, Cornwall: On the edge of a pretty fishing village, overlooking the sweep of Falmouth Bay, with views of St Anthony’s lighthouse, this hotel occupies a cluster of houses, made over by Olga Polizzi, doyenne of British hoteliers, in her trademark simple-chic style.
All bedrooms have a sea view, some a private terrace. The interiors are filled with works by Cornish artists, antiques, objets d’art and curiosities.
Modern menus include a fresh fish of the day. There are terraces, a lush garden, and plans for a Mediterranean beach club and juice café.
B&B; from $330 (£260). À la carte $56 (£44). No children under six at dinner. 44 (0)1326 270055, tresanton.com
The Old Coastguard, Mouseshole, Cornwall: This whitewashed former coastguard’s station is a relaxed and happy place, furnished and decorated in casual-chic, mix-and-match style.
You can take tea on the terrace, in sub-tropical gardens sloping down to the harbor wall; dine on local fish and shellfish.
Bedrooms (some with balcony) are hung with Cornish art. Most have a sea view.
With its winding streets and harbor, Mousehole (say Mowzel) was for Dylan Thomas quite the prettiest village in England. Have a drink in the bar – or at the Ship Inn, where Thomas and his fiancée binged away their wedding money – but make time for yoga, sailing, visits to gardens beaches, artists’ colonies.
B&B; from $184.50 (£140). Set dinner $26–$32 (£19.50–£24.50), à la carte $32 (£24.50). 01736 731222, oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk
Driftwood, Portscatho, Cornwall: Follow the woodland path that winds down through the landscaped garden to a private beach from this New-England-inspired hotel overlooking Gerrans Bay, or sink into an Adirondack chair on the lawn and soak up the view.
Bedrooms are decorated in shades of sun and sand. In the evenings, hurricane lamps are lit on the decking for guests lingering over aperitifs.
There’s early supper for the little ones, Michelin-starred cooking in the airy dining room for adults and kids aged 7 and upwards. Ask for a picnic hamper and spend a day by the water.
B&B; from $235 (£185). Tasting menus $95–$121 (£75–£95), à la carte $83 (£65). 01872 580644, driftwoodhotel.co.uk
The Nare, Veryan-in-Roseland, Cornwall: Traditional, luxurious and friendly, this hotel was founded in 1989 by the present owner’s grandmother. Verdant gardens lead down to the sandy beach.
Many bedrooms have an ocean view. Old-fashioned touches include a valet to unpack for you, hot-water bottles and a silver-service restaurant with flambé trolley.
Enjoy a dip in the outdoor pool or a game of tennis or croquet before a Cornish cream tea. The climate of the Roseland peninsula is temperate, almost Mediterranean, and garden visits beckon.
Come in early spring to see the national collection of magnolias at Caerhays Castle. Book a trip on the Nare’s skippered yacht or motor launch.
B&B; from $369 (£290). Set dinner and á la carte $64 (£50).
Fowey Hall, Fowey, Cornwall: Pronounced Foy, here’s one for the kids – not least because Kenneth Grahame is believed to have taken the Italianate Victorian mansion overlooking the Fowey estuary as his model for Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows.
While adults relax in the library, billiards room and spa, the younger guests can help to collect eggs from the hens, walk Bramble the dog, bounce on a trampoline, whizz down a zip wire.
There are family rooms, flexible meal options (from high tea to a candlelit dinner), a playroom for rainy days, fishing nets and buckets and spades for days spent on the sands or messing about in boats.
Fowey Hall is part of the Luxury Family Hotels group; sister hotel Polurrian Bay, Mullion, has a private beach.
B&B; from $242 (£190). Set dinner $38–$51 (£30–£40), à la carte $51 (£40). 01726 833866, foweyhallhotel.co.uk
Boskerris Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall: A pilchard-fishing town turned arty enclave on the north Cornish coast, St Ives is thronged in summer. Visit Tate St Ives gallery, browse the shops, then escape via the coastal path or by train (in just three minutes) to this 1930s hotel on the hillside overlooking Carbis Bay.
Interiors are cool, chic, stripped down. Most bedrooms have a panoramic Atlantic view towards Godrevy lighthouse, inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Indulgences include a massage in the treatment room, a Cornish cream tea on the terrace.
B&B; from $197 (£155). À la carte $34 (£27). Children 10 and over welcome. 01736 795295, boskerrishotel.co.uk
Bedruthan Hotel and Spa, Mawgan Porth, Cornwall: With a sophisticated spa, outdoor play areas, games room, complimentary child care, pools and poolside snack bar, tennis, kids’ club and art gallery, this lively hotel, a short stroll from the beach, is avowedly family friendly.
You can eat informally, alfresco on the terrace or in the Wild Café. For more sophisticated fare dine in the Herring, watching the sun set over the sea through picture windows.
There are doubles, family
Time Lapse: Malcolm Le Grice Exhibition install at Peninsula Arts
Watch a short time lapse video of the 'Present Moments and Passing Time' exhibition featuring the work of Plymouth-born artist Malcolm Le Grice.
The exhibition is a dual site show at Peninsula Arts and Plymouth Arts Centre, delivered in partnership with the Plymouth History Centre. It will be on display until 18 March 2017.
Plymouth Art!s weekend 2016 The Royal William Yard Plymouth The BEING HUMAN Exhibition
Thanks To Tim Bailey And Caitline Hennesy, At Plymouth Arts weekend Exhibition at Stonehouse. The Royal Wiliam Yards Plymouth
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Mountbatten, Plymouth
A flight over the Mountbatten peninsula in Plymouth, Devon, England
A Taste Of Cornwall - Slideshow
Our Cornwall Holiday ..
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NEWQUAY
Newquay is a town on the north coast of Cornwall, in southwest England. It’s known for sandy Fistral and Watergate Bay beaches, where waves from the Atlantic Ocean create strong surf. On the seafront, the Blue Reef Aquarium features an underwater tunnel going through a coral-reef tank with puffer fish, sharks and rays. Further inland, surrounded by tropical gardens, Newquay Zoo is home to lions, wildebeest and sloths.
LANDS END
Land’s End is the legendary Cornish destination that has inspired people since ancient Greek times when it was referred to as Belerion – the shining land.
Fascinating discoveries found onsite dating back as far as the Mesolithic Period (10,000-4000 BC) prove the fact that people have been travelling to and living at Land’s End for ten thousand years or more.
LIZARD POINT
Lizard Point in Cornwall is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula. It is situated half-a-mile south of Lizard village in the civil parish of Landewednack and about 11 miles southeast of Helston.
SENNEN COVE
Sennen Cove is a small coastal village in the parish of Sennen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. According to the Penwith District Council, the population of this settlement was estimated at 180 persons in 2000.
LAMORNA COVE
Lamorna (Cornish: Nansmornow) is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Penzance and lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
KYNANCE COVE
Kynance Cove is a cove on the eastern side of Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Lizard peninsula approximately two miles north of Lizard Point
ST IVES
St Ives is a town in Cornwall, England, known for its surf beaches, like Porthmeor, and its art scene. The seafront Tate St Ives gallery has rotating modern art exhibitions, focusing on British artists. Nearby, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in the modernist artist’s former studio, displays her bronzes and other works. Boat trips go to Seal Island, just west of town, to see the seal colony.
Trewey Mill and Wayside Museum Zennor Cornwall 2010
Trewey Mill and Wayside Museum in Zennor, Cornwall. Fantastic small museum and water Mill
Plymouth Art!s weekend 2016. Plymouth Arts Centre 22nd September 2016
I caught up with people from all over the Counrty p[resenting there art from Glasso and other areas, at Plymouth Arts Cwentre on Friday 22nd as part of Plymouth art weekend 20916.
Norman Blacken?
Jamie Kay and friends.
Thanks to them, and everyone involved in thisd inspiring arts weekend in Plymouth.
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Falmouth, Cornwall - A Whistlestop Tour
Joe Fisher meets Falmouth BID Manager, Richard Wilcox, for a quick chat about the history of the town, where to visit, what to do and why you might consider moving to this beautiful part of Cornwall.
Bournemouth
Bournemouth /ˈbɔərnməθ/ is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England directly to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile (153 km) World Heritage Site. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 187,503 making it the largest settlement in Dorset. With Poole to the west and Christchurch in the east, Bournemouth forms the South East Dorset conurbation, which has a total population of over 400,000.
Before it was founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, the area was a deserted heathland occasionally visited by fishermen and smugglers. Initially marketed as a health resort, the town received a boost when it appeared in Dr Granville's book, The Spas of England. Bournemouth's growth really accelerated with the arrival of the railway and it became a recognised town in 1870. Historically part of Hampshire, it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974. Since 1997, the town has been administered by a unitary authority, giving it autonomy from Dorset County Council although it remains however part of the ceremonial county. The local council is Bournemouth Borough Council.
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Maritime history of the United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article
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Maritime history of the United Kingdom
00:00:47 1 Chronology
00:00:56 1.1 Eighteenth century
00:01:51 1.2 Nineteenth century
00:03:26 1.3 Twentieth century
00:05:24 1.4 Twenty-first century
00:05:44 2 Royal Navy
00:05:53 2.1 Eighteenth-century navy
00:06:46 2.2 Nineteenth-century navy
00:07:57 2.3 Twentieth-century navy
00:12:01 2.4 The Navy Board
00:12:26 2.5 Ministry of Defence
00:12:44 2.6 Notable wars
00:12:53 2.6.1 American Wars
00:13:28 2.6.2 French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars
00:14:06 2.6.3 Maritime events of World War I
00:17:27 2.6.4 Maritime events of World War II
00:22:39 2.6.5 Post War Operations
00:24:30 3 Notable individuals
00:24:39 3.1 Charles Hardy
00:25:11 3.2 Augustus Keppel
00:26:35 3.3 Edward Hawke
00:26:59 3.4 Richard Howe
00:27:37 3.5 Horatio Nelson
00:29:30 3.6 Hyde Parker
00:30:23 3.7 Edward Pellew
00:30:55 3.8 James Saumarez
00:31:41 3.9 William Dampier
00:32:18 3.10 James Cook
00:33:49 3.11 George Vancouver
00:34:23 3.12 Admiral Anson
00:34:49 3.13 Sir John Franklin
00:35:51 3.14 James Clarke Ross
00:36:12 3.15 Robert Scott
00:36:32 3.16 Ernest Shackleton
00:37:10 4 Shipbuilding
00:38:36 5 Famous ships
00:38:45 5.1 iCutty Sark/i
00:39:40 5.2 iEndeavour/i
00:40:45 5.3 iGreat Britain/i
00:41:20 5.4 iGreat Eastern/i
00:42:33 5.5 iTitanic/i
00:43:52 5.6 iQueen Mary/i
00:44:29 5.7 iBritannia/i
00:45:11 5.8 iVictory/i
00:46:07 5.9 iWarrior/i
00:46:50 5.10 iBelfast/i
00:47:43 6 Navigation
00:47:52 6.1 Instruments and guides
00:48:45 6.2 Lighthouses
00:49:27 6.3 Navigation marks
00:50:02 7 Safety and rescue
00:50:12 7.1 Plimsoll line
00:50:49 7.2 Lifeboats
00:51:51 7.3 Maritime and Coastguard Agency
00:52:20 8 Ports and harbours
00:54:26 9 Trade
00:54:34 9.1 Goods
00:57:44 9.2 Passenger liners
00:58:27 9.3 Emigration/deportation
00:59:03 10 Ferries and cruise boats
01:00:07 11 Customs men and smugglers
01:01:22 12 Fishing
01:03:55 13 Energy
01:04:03 13.1 Gas and oil
01:04:59 13.2 Oil spills
01:06:21 13.3 Offshore wind farms
01:06:56 14 Coast
01:08:11 15 Leisure activities
01:08:20 15.1 Resorts
01:09:00 15.2 Rowing, yachting and power boats
01:11:35 15.3 Marinas
01:11:57 16 Marine science
01:12:07 16.1 Hydrographics
01:12:54 16.2 Oceanography
01:14:17 17 Maritime studies
01:14:26 17.1 Colleges
01:15:01 17.2 Admiralty law
01:15:45 18 Law of the sea
01:16:11 18.1 Ship design
01:16:51 19 Maritime museums
01:17:23 19.1 Maritime archaeology
01:18:02 20 Maritime subjects in the Arts
01:18:12 20.1 Art
01:18:44 20.2 Literature
01:20:01 20.3 Music
01:20:16 21 See also
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The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July 1706. Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the British Isles. For this reason, maritime trade and naval power have always had great importance.
Prior to the Acts of Union, 1707, the maritime history of the British Isles was largely dominated by that of England. (See Maritime history of England for more details.)
Ivan Chermayeff Returns To Bentley Wood
We are very saddened to hear that one of the greatest graphic designers of our age, Ivan Chermayeff, passed away at on 3 December. As the son of Serge Chermayeff, the architect who with Erich Mendelsohn, designed the De La Warr Pavilion, Ivan was a friend and Patron to the Pavilion until his death, generously creating our 80th Anniversary logo in 2015.
Credited with being one of the founders of the modern profession of graphic design Ivan’s agency, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv was responsible for some of the most iconic logos of the 20th century, including PanAm, Mobil, NBC, National Geographic and MOMA to name just a few.
In 2014 we were thrilled to exhibit some of his more personal work in our ground floor gallery in an exhibition call Cut And Paste, bringing together three generations of Chermayeffs; the exhibition was designed by his son Sam together with his partner Johanna Mayer-Grohbrugge in the building designed by his father. This was Ivan’s first UK exhibition and toured to Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth and to London College of Communication as part of the London Design Festival.
The work in the show reflected his obsession with collecting scraps – crumpled envelopes and crushed tin cans, scraps of billboards and torn newsprint, all assembled to form strange animals and abstract faces. We then invited Ivan to design an icon for our 80th anniversary, and he presented us with a very simple, three circle mark (see below) which was used on our print material and made into beautiful and much coveted pin.
Whilst visiting us for the opening of his exhibition, Ivan said to the Guardian “The goal is always to make something simple and memorable. You must be as clear and direct as possible.”
We remember Ivan as a very generous and warm character with an extra-ordinary outlook on life. It was a thrill to watch Elvis Costello with him and the family in the concert hall designed by his father, and to be able to take him to his childhood home Bentley Wood, where amongst others Frank Lloyd Wright took tea on the terrace.
Click here to see Ivan Chermayeff returning to Bentley Wood, his childhood home designed by his father, with our trustee Sean Albuquerque.
Our thoughts are with Ivan’s family.
Stewart Drew
Director and Chief Executive
De La Warr Pavilion Charitable Trust
Dream of Ocean Deep
Excerpts sharing my art residency at Plymouth Sealife Centre