Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media. The exhibition includes an original in watercolour pastel from the [...]
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Contemporary painting takes centre stage at Cambridge Contemporary Art’s pre-Christmas exhibition this month. Several of the painters most closely associated with the city centre gallery will be showing new work – among them Rebecca Barnard, Dan Bennett, Alice Cescatti, Katty McMurray and Nicola Cooke. One of the gallery’s best-loved painters, Shazia Mahmood, will be showing [...]
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Snow and ice may not be one of the things you immediately associate with Japan, but there’s a great tradition of winter scenes being depicted by Japanese artists. This tradition, dating back centuries, is being explored across the winter months at The Fitzwilliam Museum in an exhibition of woodblock prints from the museum’s own collection. [...]
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Beckie Reed is a local artist (born in Newmarket, living in Ely) who is rapidly acquiring a national reputation for her paintings. She paints vivid depictions of the countryside, and trees in particular, combining different techniques to merge the abstract and the lifelike. Her work will be familiar to visitors to Byard Art on King’s [...]
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Since first bursting on to the city’s art scene, Aid & Abet, the artist-run organisation and art space situated within a spacious old warehouse near Cambridge railway station, has proved to be a must-visit destination. It’s a place where you can actually see contemporary artists at work, exhibitions and installations evolving across time, and a [...]
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Across the summer at Kettle’s Yard on Castle Street, as their multi-million pound redevelopment work continues, visitors to the house and gallery will be able to enjoy ongoing work by this year’s associate artists, Matei Bejenaru, Matthew Darbyshire, Lorna Macintyre and Jeremy Millar. They will be displaying their work alongside objects, artworks and archive materials [...]
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Most undergraduates may have left Cambridge for the summer holidays, but University life goes on across the city, particularly at the museums and great institutions such as the University Library, which continue to welcome tourists and visitors from all over the world. Living or working in Cambridge, it’s often easy to overlook the extent of [...]
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The popular painter Garry Raymond-Pereira returns to Cambridge for his third solo show at Byard Art, with 60 powerful new paintings of Scotland, Wales, the Lake District and East Anglia, and his first mixed media sculpture. The name of the exhibition Day Release comes from the title Garry’s given to a new series of paintings [...]
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On the 14th June, Cambridge Art Salon will be hosting the opening night of an exhibition of artwork by the LittleBiggs collaborative. The LittleBiggs collaborative comprises local portrait artist Ceri Ann Littlechild and a secret treasure on the Cambridge art scene, Dan Biggs. Dan Biggs’ work emulates the textures and weathered colours of the street, [...]
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Lizzie Sykes’ work focuses on the sequential image, producing works that are about physicality on screen, and the sensorial impact of the viewer, working with dance, landscape and sound. In order to produce a particular feeling in an audience, Sykes alters the cameras herself; these changes to the original function of the kit reveal other [...]
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