Recycled cans kicks-starts new career as artist

It’s the kind of story that belongs to a mini-series of the 80s. A Plymouth property developer falls on hard times and spends more time on his art work to relax and take him away from his woes. He develops a technique using recycled cans as part of the canvass to reflect his seascapes

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All you need is love at Delamore Gallery

All You Need Is Love, apparently, at the Delamore Gallery. Which may not cut it if you try to walk away with some of the work of the more than 40 painters, sculptors, photographer and craftspeople who make up this exhibition celebrating all aspects of passion, affection and desire… to which we’d add recrimination

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Not the Avant Garde

Will Amery is organising a 60s-esque happening in Plymouth College of Art’s Studio 11. There will be projections (confirmed Tim MacMillan’s “Dead Horse”), action painting, ‘performance’ typing and live music (confirmed ELM-K = Neil Rose, Matt Coombe and Ben Philcox; and Jamell Ackford)  Studio 11 Regent Street , Plymouth (behind the Co-op) .

Free,

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Cafe Concrete as part of Peninsula Arts Experimental music weekend

Lona Kozik and Neil Rose deliver a live improvisation around piano, violin and electronics, Alexis Kirke and Nick Grew improvise using percussion, and electronics and DJ Contort delivers the sandwich filling, ensuring every one doesn’t vanish up their highbrow bum bum. There will be two films shown as usual – details to be

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