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Art for Food | spread a different kind of love this Valentine's

Art for Food | spread a different kind of love this Valentine’s

A Who’s Who of over 50 Devon artists will sell unique works in an online, silent Art for Food charity auction. Continue reading

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Guest Talk: Becky Strong

“Beccy Strong came to photography after an international career in broadcast film and documentary.  She now works with Photography, film and sound.

Recently completing a Masters in Photography at Plymouth University her work broadly explores questions about our changing relationship to nature and the impact that is having, both internally and externally in the landscape and world around us.

With an interest in photography, psychology and myth the work is also underpinned by an exploration of the visual notions of the Anthropocene: “a term given to a new era on Earth in which technologically induced changes to the planet wrought by humans have had an acute and often irreversible effect on its geology…The beginning of the Anthropocene (the term derived from from Greek and means ‘the recent age of man’) is debatable – one party argues for its coinciding with the beginning of agriculture 8000 years ago; another with the invention of the steam engine in the 18thcentury. Some prefer the the middle of the 20thCentury, specifically the testing of the first atomic bomb, or NASA’s ‘blue marble’ photograph of earth.” Hester Keijser”  -  Beccy Strong’s Website 

What interests me the most about Beccy’s work is her story of how she came to getting into photography, her work in the past being somebody that films documentary of wildlife is so inspirational and deep as a film maker that she couldn't just stop there. Although her photography is more of a personal note as she captures her 13 year son, it still has a beautiful atmosphere. In the photo above she tells us of the tragic story behind it, saying “A boy in my town was high of of legal highs was tripping, went swimming in the river where my son plays sometimes, drowned.” her photography I believe reflects her life and feelings that she has because it is so personal.

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‘Many sided’ Dartington Outing: first major queer arts festival at Dartington Hall

‘Many sided’ Dartington Outing: first major queer arts festival at Dartington Hall

We’re a little behind the curve on this one – that’s what happens after a month-long beach party here at PRSD towers (there’s still some sand behind our spacebars) – so this is a delayed heads up about ‘a Dartington Outing – seven days of queer arts and bent events’, talking place from 21-29 September 2017, to mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK1. Read on…

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Beccy Strong "This week in London the play Cosmic Trigger by Daisy Eris Campbell opens following the premiere in Liverpool last weekend. The play is an epic and truly heroic adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson’s life changing autobiographical book of the same name...." Read more here