tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31296493246192328052024-03-06T03:03:41.654+00:00Empty Shops ProjectEmpty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-50933996176623625242010-12-22T13:35:00.000+00:002010-12-22T13:35:23.670+00:00<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The Empty Shops Project has now ended. A big Thank You to everyone who has exhibited or volunteered their time to help make the project a success!</strong></span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-50133284309257901332010-12-06T11:22:00.000+00:002010-12-06T11:22:36.789+00:00<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">NOW EXHIBITING..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All exhibitions run until Friday 9th December 2010</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">OREN -<span style="color: black;"> Carrie Ravenscroft and Sarah Wooldridge</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">GREEN <span style="color: black;">and BLACKS - Kieran Morris</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">DRAGONS DEN - <span style="color: black;">UWN Photography</span></span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-16060342355039921372010-11-30T16:28:00.002+00:002010-11-30T16:28:19.325+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8BzF9x2hFGTCXVfK4QoMLSN3LEWy2-w8plO_M_emOOvbYFVM7l-mW6PNLfrwgd50ti51jNlVVdenXLOjnvUXKXferyUBz1nRdxSvyoBVvI9_xs9yquIddmAKrw6E_w9HmCK7406jF8D8/s1600/Artist_Lounge_final1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8BzF9x2hFGTCXVfK4QoMLSN3LEWy2-w8plO_M_emOOvbYFVM7l-mW6PNLfrwgd50ti51jNlVVdenXLOjnvUXKXferyUBz1nRdxSvyoBVvI9_xs9yquIddmAKrw6E_w9HmCK7406jF8D8/s640/Artist_Lounge_final1.jpg" width="452" /></a></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-2289037435204856912010-11-24T16:56:00.001+00:002010-11-24T16:59:46.700+00:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>THE BANK JOB</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">SIX FEET UNDER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>FRIDAY 17th DECEMBER 7PM</strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We would like to thank all who have supported the Empty Shops Project over the past year and we hope to continue all our collective efforts well into 2011. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DON’T FORGET, IF YOU HAVE EXHIBITED AT THE EMPTY SHOPS YOU CAN GET IN FOR £5!!! Please e-mail info@emptyshopsproject.co.uk for tickets. (Limited number available. First come first served) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KRIMINAL RECORDS</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-87917212225510273232010-11-24T13:33:00.002+00:002010-11-24T14:32:59.596+00:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">GWYRDD <span style="color: #990000;">Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Artists:</strong> Natasha Stockham and Jemma Lewis-Morse</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Natasha Stockham - Never Knowing </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I am a welsh artist, aged 25, and I appreciate, and attempt to create, art that displays craft, expression of emotion and aesthetic appeal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Currently, I’m working as a Finisher but painting,photography, and the visual arts in general, are my true passions in life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My artistic studies have been diverse, and assist me creatively. These include:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beauty Therapy Level 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Theatrical Media Makeup Diploma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photography Diploma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contemporary Media BA (Hons) Degree</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially, I focus purely on photography, using a photograph as the foundation of my eventual concept. This, I feel, enables me to make a strong, bold start, with what could already be considered a piece of art. The photograph acts as a kind of automatic palette, determining the colours, tones & structure of the eventual piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I work in this manner, I treat the photograph more as a stepping-stone, a ‘shortcut’ to the heart of an artistic concept or idea. I don’t believe photography exists solely in the documentary sense, & so it can be manipulated or ‘tampered’ with. This ‘tampering’ may consist of deconstructing the elements of the photograph: scratching away the pigment or using water to de-saturate or dissolve colour & light. This altered image may then provide the blueprint for a purely painted piece or be incorporated into a painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another method is to construct: to ‘build’ on photograph with layers of paint in certain areas where the photographic imagery requires emphasis or enhancement. Sometimes the intention may be to conceal certain aspects of the photograph, to shroud the image or not ‘tell the whole story’. Once this developmental stage is complete, the concept could already be fully realised, the piece fully formed. But more often than not, I will take my ideas & convert these into a painted piece that will be the final result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conceptully, my work remains ambiguous until the final stages. It is usually only in looking back that I realise what it is I set out to achieve. My work focuses on death & the memory of loved ones lost. I this is key not only to the aesthetic of my work, but also to the work process. This is why i begin with a photograph because I believe the camera acts like the human mind. Taking visual snapshots that document the past, that act as the remaining manifestations of a lost time. The manipulation, I then perform, relates to the distortion of memory, the warping of mental imagery that occurs through the deterioration of time or possibly even through self-deception "</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Jemma Lewis-Morse</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a developing artist trained in Howard gardens UWIC in printmaking specialised in woodcuts more recently art work has involved expressing through painting although wood cuts is till very much a part of my creative expression. my woodcuts are strictly dynamic through black and white to achieve x-ray visions of scenarios or emotions. it is about stripping down to the bare core or bones of a moment.</span><br />
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</div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-57229443462942417132010-11-16T09:47:00.000+00:002010-11-16T09:47:33.728+00:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">OREN</span> Exhibition Profile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 13th November 2010 - Friday 26th November 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Title: The Wolves are in the Kitchen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artists: Emma Hatton and Steph Anderson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Wolves Are In The Kitchen will be using an empty space to create the feeling of another world; an escape from reality. We have installed a photography studio in the shop to create an experience that people can get involved in as well as look at and watch. The project is mainly aimed at teenagers upwards as this is the age group that are most affected by the pressures of everyday life. In our interactive space we hope that people can forget about these pressures for a short while and just have fun. We want people to realise you don’t need to be a kid to have fun!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are printing out the images every day so people can come in to look at them even if they do not want their picture taken. On the last day (26th Nov) we will be showcasing all the images for everyone to come back and look at. As well as this all the images we make in the shop will be uploaded to our wesbite.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can contact us at</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:thewolvesareinthekitcen@hotmail.com">thewolvesareinthekitcen@hotmail.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thewolvesareinthekitchen.co.uk/">http://www.thewolvesareinthekitchen.co.uk/</a> </span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-44378773066871138302010-11-11T16:45:00.000+00:002010-11-11T16:45:29.872+00:00<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a look at this.....</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why not get yourself down to Colchester and get in the know about what's going on with other Empty Shops Projects and pick up some tips for Newport's Empty Shops Project?</span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-38335382952175610612010-11-04T11:17:00.000+00:002010-11-04T11:17:43.456+00:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">OREN <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">: Exhibition Profile</span></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial;">Artists: Jan Vowles, Malcolm Waite and Glenn Allen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ARTIST STATEMENT: JAN VOWLES</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jan Vowles is a Newport born Watercolour artist, who is entirely self taught. Jan believes that an artist must be free to create whatever is "right" for each individual, and therefore rejects the rigid "rules" of watercolour, and the "system" rules, and creates art that is original in technique. Jan says, "An artist must be free to express his or her own personality, without being 'conditioned' to paint a certain way".</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jan started off, as many do, by painting realistic landscapes, but has now, automatically, started painting semi-abstract. Jan says, "Because I am self taught, I have automatically found the way of painting that is "right" for me, it has emerged slowly, and I find I can now no longer paint realistic paintings, all my most recent work is semi-abstract. It wasn't a conscious choice, it just happened"</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-2313367425775014752010-10-21T18:34:00.001+01:002010-11-01T13:43:45.450+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiJSvlP6hfEqWxnGethserE8wIZem7dDoL667qMID5jpmiB6S5pbmLgIVEXuTIRlN8AAO-YG-rBaabFYe_S_Jpq2Jb00Gw6NnzAbPnKn86uyCq0RffC3Aeo-OC1RCNxZ7aMLvKChhFymm/s1600/NationalTheatreWales.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiJSvlP6hfEqWxnGethserE8wIZem7dDoL667qMID5jpmiB6S5pbmLgIVEXuTIRlN8AAO-YG-rBaabFYe_S_Jpq2Jb00Gw6NnzAbPnKn86uyCq0RffC3Aeo-OC1RCNxZ7aMLvKChhFymm/s1600/NationalTheatreWales.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">COME AND ENJOY 2 ONE-OFF EVENINGS OF PERFORMANCE AND LIVE ART WITH A GLASS OF WINE!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">NEWPORT LIVE ART SPEED DATE</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you missed it here's a short clip of the night:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER - SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOORS OPEN AT: 9.00PM. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EVENT STARTS AT: 9.30PM SHARP.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the New Dark Philosophers Shop (was Dragons' Den - opposite Iceland) this coming Friday 22 - Saturday 23 October we have the Newport Live Art Speed Date!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doors Open at 9.00pm after Elemental has finished at the Civic Centre. You can do both. For FREE!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come over for a glass of wine and some intimate one-on-one encounters with an exciting range of Newport-based talent and emerging artists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OUR ARTISTS ARE:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gareth Clark</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jenni Davies</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beth Greenhalgh</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tracy Harris</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kelly Jones</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patrick Jones</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marega Plaser</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gary Raymond</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tin Shed Theatre</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dom W</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rachel Helena Walsh</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will Woon</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHAT IS LIVE ART SPEED DATE?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Live Art Speed Date is an exploration and celebration of intimate exchange between Artist and Audience. A diverse selection of innovative performance artists are invited to create and present a four minute one-on-one performance or "date". The audience make their own journey through the dates, with opportunities to interact with each other and walkabout artists. This carefully curated event explores public and private behaviors creating a vibrant fairground of fragmented experiences, pushing the notion of interactive performance and audience/performer collaboration.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Live Art Speed Date crystallizes a movement in contemporary British performance - a free-wheeling, wide ranging bashing down of boundaries between forms and practices, a celebration of us all as both artists and audience." - Tim Crouch</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch this short video: </span><a href="http://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blogs/live-art-speed-date-newport"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blogs/live-art-speed-date-newport</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Newport Live Art Speed Date is curated by National Theatre Wales in partnership with Stoke Newington International Airport with huge support from The Empty Shops Project, Newport Riverfront and Newport Festival 2010.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-54183132753155486002010-10-19T16:02:00.001+01:002010-10-20T11:41:40.599+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-nzJBq-LpDw9ZfP9jerqgFppTfcGJa61OJu_i6jPsAArVSkUfIua5NsbeKZbZ2934CjTVjtjsmHHqW7h8Jtyc2aiWfm-5AOosDIhXpmKJppaJyIm9yZLIUQ-0kPkgWI9tt5YdSZc2a51w/s1600/empty+shops+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-nzJBq-LpDw9ZfP9jerqgFppTfcGJa61OJu_i6jPsAArVSkUfIua5NsbeKZbZ2934CjTVjtjsmHHqW7h8Jtyc2aiWfm-5AOosDIhXpmKJppaJyIm9yZLIUQ-0kPkgWI9tt5YdSZc2a51w/s320/empty+shops+017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">GWYRDD </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial;">GROUP: UNDY AND DISTRICT ART SOCIETY</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">' We held our first group meeting in September 2006 with a small group of interested people.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The enthusiasm has spread through local advertising and word of mouth and our membership is 20 plus to date- February 2007. We meet every Wednesday evening at Undy Church and Community Hall between 6.00 and 8.30pm. Our meetings vary between 'painting in the studio', 'still life painting', 'portraits/life drawing' and visiting artists to demonstrate in a variety of media.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our membership is made up of people with a common interest in art but with varying abilities and levels of expertise. We advise and encourage each other in the use of various mediums. ie. Watercolours, pastel, Oil, acrylic, Pen and wash, Pencil and Charcoal. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We have a planned programme of activities throughout the year. If you are interested in joining us, we'll be pleased to see you, just come along! ' </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-90084198648985530482010-10-14T10:47:00.003+01:002010-10-20T11:43:22.561+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvt5jvTsRjV6xDDJfzrlUh0lC21Ke2YEioYisTGk5PRqSSGJ1kbuU9ags7Nt8JeHqmbtdi-tE64hNPeZpNuFOSEqHsLEa384XflJr0kw_fMJiBqqq3zjv3dPFKVO7chfo6YmS0NB-VyHqy/s1600/empty+shops+039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvt5jvTsRjV6xDDJfzrlUh0lC21Ke2YEioYisTGk5PRqSSGJ1kbuU9ags7Nt8JeHqmbtdi-tE64hNPeZpNuFOSEqHsLEa384XflJr0kw_fMJiBqqq3zjv3dPFKVO7chfo6YmS0NB-VyHqy/s320/empty+shops+039.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OREN Exhibition Profile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 16th October - Friday 29th October 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Private View: Saturday 23rd October 2010 6:30pm - 8:30pm</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artist Group: University of Wales, Newport Graduates</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title: Fflow</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fflow is an exhibition of work from a group of artists who have recently graduated from Newport’s Fine Art degree course. Our journey began three years ago upstream in Caerleon at the University of Wales. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fflow, our first graduate show, can be said to represent our transition to professional practice. We are all adjusting to new working environments, for some of us this is a kitchen table, a bedroom or garden shed! Alongside this we have to adapt to working on a new scale or finding new media out of economic necessity. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regardless of these struggles we are all committed to our practice as artists and view this show as affirmation of this. </span><br />
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Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-47089239016932158072010-10-11T16:37:00.001+01:002010-10-11T16:40:21.219+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">COMEDY PORT - Newport Comedy festival!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">COME AND JOIN IN THE FUN AT COMEDY PORT HQ </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(GLAS - The old Meeks shoe shop)</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newport’s very first Comedy Festival, Comedy Port, will begin this weekend on Saturday 9 and continue until Sunday 17 October 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newport will turn into a mini Edinburgh-esque Fringe Festival and will be awash with comedians and general fun shenanigans; from established acts like Shappi Khorsandi and Jon Richardson to up and coming names like Nick Helm and Maeve Higgins and local funny men Elis James and Dan Mitchell through to long-standing alternative/comedy club comedians like Tony Law and Ian Stone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch out for funny things happening all over the city; a pop-up venue (Comedy Port HQ) will spring to life in town in one of the Empty Shops to house some up and coming names and fringe acts, lots of madcap antics will happen in Le Pub and The Riverfront will house some of the bigger comedic names and shows. The Riverfront cinema will also be showing some classic comedy (Anchorman and This is Spinal Tap), and new releases Skeleton and Whatever Works. You can also take a comedy taxi ride from outside The Riverfront (between 5.30pm and 7.30pm) every day of the festival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Folk with tickets for the comedy festival, will be able to get food and drink discounts in venues all over the city centre including Le Pub, Kama Lounge and Revolution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information, please visit www.newportcomedyfestival.co.uk or www.newport.gov.uk/theriverfront. Tickets are on sale from The Riverfront Box Office and website. Call 01633 656679 for more details. Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/portcomedyfest and join our Facebook group, Comedy Port. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.30pm – The Great Brain Robbery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Criminally silly songs and sketches all the way from Luton. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price: £4, reductions £3 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Drones Comedy Club is coming to Newport for one afternoon only! Come and enjoy a great mix of local stand-up comedy from Cardiff’s longest running open mic night. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price: £3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 – 4pm Scrabble Sunday at Glas (Empty Shops Project) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scrabble is the best board game in the world. Fact. So whether it’s your first time or you’re a seasoned pro. Come and join us for some wordplay, tea and cake. All you have to do is bring your brain. Bring a packed lunch too so we can all eat some grub, play scrabble and have fun times. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price: Free</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.30pm – Nick Helm at (Empty Shops Project)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comedian Nick Helm is putting his past and his problems firmly behind him in an attempt to help make you appreciate life in a whole new way, whether you want to or not. Featuring poetry, music, stand-up and chutzpah. A wonderful closing act for the festival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venue: Glas (Empty Shop Project, Upper Dock Street) </span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-77678570085228758602010-10-01T13:20:00.000+01:002010-10-01T13:20:08.180+01:00<div align="center"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">VOICE AWARDS NOMINATIONS</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The VOICE Awards - </span><a href="http://www.wearevoice.co.uk/v_awards.asp"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.wearevoice.co.uk/v_awards.asp</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">VOICE - </span><a href="http://www.wearevoice.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.wearevoice.co.uk</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could you please nominate Empty Shops Project as the 'Best City Centre Venue' found under the Nightlife category (Closest category we could think of) and The Riverfront for 'Best Theatre' found under the Entertainment & Dining category.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you in advance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E.S.P. Team</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-50834936818841849922010-09-27T14:24:00.000+01:002010-09-27T14:24:45.090+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PORFFOR : <span style="color: #990000;">Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">27th September - 8th October 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographer: Jay Dyer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title: The Naked and the Dead</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-88580843227507729142010-09-21T17:46:00.002+01:002010-09-21T17:46:57.536+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">GLAS</span> Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 18th September - Friday 24th September 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana;">Performances: Thursday 23rd September 2:00pm, 4:00pm & 6:00pm and Friday 24th September 2:00pm, 4:00pm & 6:00pm</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doors Open 2pm, 4pm & 6pm... Free Entry!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not your ordinary 'boxed theatre piece' audience members are welcome to move around the space freely, viewing the art and performance!</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-10995738833770673422010-09-21T17:12:00.000+01:002010-09-21T17:12:36.270+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">GWYRDD </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exhibition Profile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 4th September - Friday 17th September 2010</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Artist Group: 21 Group</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21 Group were originally part of a Welsh National Organisation and a platform to promote artistic endeavour. We are now primarily associated with visual arts, and are an idependent multi-disciplinary group based in Wales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since 1994, as well as initiating practical events, we have actively promoted contact with Galleries and Art Centres throughout Wales as venues for showing members work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are now a thriving, professional group exhibiting all over Wales. We have a dynamic, exuberant energetic approach to art, and our Artistic Director, Mal Charles and Chairperson Patricia Clifford see us approaching the New Year with a strong and hard working core membership with a philosophy that is mutually supportive. They state of 21 Group "It's strength is it's diversity."</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-90933664988604132472010-09-21T16:49:00.000+01:002010-09-21T16:49:05.275+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">OREN</span> Exhibition Profile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Saturday 4th September - Friday 24th September 2010</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Artist: Merel Prescott</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Title: Inspired</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">"</span>I was born in Newport in 1961 and spent part of my childhood living in Ethiopia and in Egypt. I was fortunate to have travelled extensively throughout my youth experiencing a wide variety of cultures. I have had an extremely varied working life including time spent in the Merchant Navy, work as a geophysicist, a Public House Manager and a Montessori Directress. Following the breakdown of my marriage I graduated from Cardiff University in 2003 with BSc (Hons) Mathematics and trained as a secondary mathematics teacher with the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham. After a reasonably long period of supply teaching my teaching career came to an end when I decided to devote my time to home educating my youngest daughter. It is my dearest wish to take my daughter to Ghana in the next year or two in order to do about three months voluntary work for Project Sand (http://www.projectsand.org). I am currently looking into fundraising for this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a mathematician with what I considered to be non-existant artistic talent I don’t think I’d even considered art on my daughter’s curriculum until one day when, on the way to the bus station from the library, my daughter and I called by the Empty Shops and were admiring the beautiful works on display. When we came at last into the shop where Alfonso Marino was working I told him that I wished I could draw or paint. He got us to come in the next day with a canvas each. My daughter started on her painting that day while I sat staring at a blank canvas, too apprehensive to even draw a line on it. However, the following day I picked up a paintbrush and have not since looked back. I now work with oil pastels, acrylics and oil paints and am about to experiment with water colours. I get my daughter to take photographs everywhere we go – we are constantly on the lookout for beauty in our surroundings which until recently we would have ignored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to thank all those involved with the Empty Shops Project for the life-changing experience it has provided both me and my daughter, and Marino and Jonathan Sherwood for providing us with inspiration, confidence, help and friendship. I hope that during my time in this shop I will be able to help inspire others too.<span style="color: #990000;">"</span></span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-74886239805505885742010-09-08T14:27:00.005+01:002010-09-09T12:29:26.159+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">MELYN</span> Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 4th September - Friday 24th September 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curators: Sian Donovan and Sally Fowler</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title: River of Life Project</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Travel back in time to medieval Newport when Melyn formerly the card shop, becomes home to truly innovative and exciting community project – The River of Life Newport Heritage Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This unique project, the first of its kind in Wales, has at its heart the desire to bring a community together in a positive and uplifting experience that will form a solid basis on which to build a better future for the people Newport.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspired by the Medieval Mystery plays and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the “River of Life” will be shaped by the community, developing stories drawn largely from the Stow Hill area through drama, dance and music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exploring links from the past to the present and culminating in a series of performances that will travel down the hill from St Woolos Cathedral , performing in fascinating parks to a grand finale in John Frost Square on May 7th 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come along and discover the rich and intriguing stories and take part in taster workshops such as dance, drama and arts and crafts. All ages welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Opening times will be posted on the door. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 4th September - Friday 17th September 2010</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artist: S & M</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Opening Times: 10:00am - 4:00pm</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the Empty Shops Project www.newportcitycentre.co.uk/emptyshops) in Upper Dock Street, local vintage expert Sara Crerar teams up with artist Marion Webber to give accessories and furniture a new lease of life. Their pop-up shop is destined to ‘not be anything you would find in M&S.’</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘These days, many of us are addicted to fast, cheap, throwaway fashion and I’m not saying that we’re not partial to it – yet by restoring old leather accessories, furniture and textiles we can turn something ready for the tip into something useful whilst at the same time celebrating the unique.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through this process maybe we can re-think the way we shop and consume the mass-produced.’</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marion Webber graduated from Central St.Martin’s and recently took part in the SuperDragons project. ‘Since leaving college in 1992, I’ve worked in the fashion industry for some well known high street retailers.I used to paint on leather accessories found in charity shops when I lived in a tiny flat.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made a fledgling business out of it, selling in London and Brighton – then freelance design work took over. It was great to meet Sara unexpectedly again at this years’ Maindee festival, we just talked about creating something different out of vintage – The Empty Shops Project is going to be a great opportunity for us to show what we do.’</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sara, apart from her keen buying skills also employs her talent for felt and dress-making, to create her own clothing range using original vintage dress patterns, customising them to her own specifications into beautiful</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">woollen capes, lined with original 50s fabrics giving them an unusual and surprising twist.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Workshops in felt-making and painting will run alongside their pop-up shop, so come along and visit for more details. Opening hours are 10am-4pm, 7th-17th September.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.mleilaniwebber@blogspot.com</span></div><span style="color: #990000;"></span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title: Re-invent Vintage</span>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-16080152711532528112010-08-25T14:51:00.001+01:002010-08-25T14:52:23.724+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">PORFFOR</span> Exhibition Profile</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 21st August - Friday 3rd September 2010</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3eNtBgx6bu8kT5r0_6xFT_NzWkwxjm18mWn6-13HtXb7YEEW3-GSALqTa68NqPLF-h1MCBw7kH99Jb3HEFvzqr_Soigk-dW-VpuJ41eaaho08LlRMiJ8T3MeATNsvnWci0vkCji1zLlA/s1600/39797_147204221966101_144630495556807_357832_2137166_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3eNtBgx6bu8kT5r0_6xFT_NzWkwxjm18mWn6-13HtXb7YEEW3-GSALqTa68NqPLF-h1MCBw7kH99Jb3HEFvzqr_Soigk-dW-VpuJ41eaaho08LlRMiJ8T3MeATNsvnWci0vkCji1zLlA/s320/39797_147204221966101_144630495556807_357832_2137166_n.jpg" width="236" /></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Artists</em>: Group Show- The Vision Hermosa Gallery</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Susana Johnston is a Newport based Art Agent. Susana is currently showcasing the work of local Artists, Photographers and Craftmakers from the Vision Hermosa Gallery (Market Arcade) in 'Porffor' as part of the Empty Shops Project. This exhibition will be rotating.</span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-48547883697011766092010-08-25T14:32:00.010+01:002010-08-27T11:35:43.158+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OREN <span style="color: #990000;">Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 21st August - Friday 3rd September 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #444444;"><em>Private View</em>: Thursday 2nd September 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Artists</em>: Tina Testagrossa and Diba Mehrab</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diba recycles material and proves not everything has to end up in the bin. Tina just likes to have fun after work with paint. She does not use brushes, just hands and anything in a household.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-87861797415097820532010-08-25T14:24:00.002+01:002010-08-25T14:25:47.859+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #45818e;">CO-OP Bank</span> Exhibition Profile</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Monday 23rd August - Saturday 28th August</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Opening Times: 11:00am - 6:00pm</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXk-H1FW6l7KIoyHpgHpAu24txgb1nqJ6eM2vF7hfLYFC8jiOv96yP4Y9el4GZal6IfeTRz6kbVH7owe7Fgu1sJU2IDi-74UQilFJYuP5PSPhshqQ21KVA8II4_Zw0JTGDphBu5jrijMK/s1600/z-factor-newport-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXk-H1FW6l7KIoyHpgHpAu24txgb1nqJ6eM2vF7hfLYFC8jiOv96yP4Y9el4GZal6IfeTRz6kbVH7owe7Fgu1sJU2IDi-74UQilFJYuP5PSPhshqQ21KVA8II4_Zw0JTGDphBu5jrijMK/s320/z-factor-newport-1.jpg" width="232" /></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Title</em>: The Z Factor</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Artist Group</em>: Zig Zag Zoo</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Created in 2008, the Zig Zag Zoo is an evolving world of ambitious, egotistical celebrity animals, harnessed and caged by a troubled duo of bearded ladies.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In March 2010 Zoo managers Bella and Helga staged the first Z Factor talent show in Bristol. The close runner-up was Dungcan the Dung Beetle. He had never performed onstage before but had made a brilliant costume. He said being concealed in the costume gave him the confidence to sing at the top of his lungs. How can you beat a singing dung beetle? Only if you’re Z Factor winners the Backflap Boys- a troupe of four penguins with a breakdance routine.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now they need more acts, and this August they’re crossing the bridge to Newport…</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Z Factor is different every time we do it- because it relies on the characters that audition. The Z Factor is a comedy show, not a real talent show. Even the most skilled performers will have to dress as some kind of animal. Everyone will be in disguise- it’s a great leveller.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Z Factor is for anyone who likes to express themselves and show people what they can do. Now we’d be honoured if the people of Newport- from children to grandparents, professional to beginner- would help us make this Z Factor the best one ever. So send in your auditions or come and record one with our help…. And you might be taking part in the Z Factor Finale Cabaret at The Riverfront with the Zig Zag Zoo animals!!!</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thebigsplashdiary.wordpress.com/the-z-factor-2010/">For more information, head this way!</a></span><br />
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</div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-2141687036731611882010-08-24T15:55:00.005+01:002010-08-25T15:01:03.331+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">GWYRDD<span style="color: #990000;"> Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 21st August - Friday 3rd September 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Private Viewing</em>: Tuesday 31st August 6:30pm - 8:00pm</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The principle behind getting involved in The Empty Shops Project was for us to exhibit our paintings and photographs to the public for the first time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our objective is primarily to gain feedback and comments on our work. To date this has been very positive.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The experiment has also proved useful in terms of meeting other creative people and learning how and where they display their work.</span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-60803368645528708892010-08-23T17:15:00.010+01:002010-08-25T14:26:43.847+01:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">GLAS <span style="color: #990000;">Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 21st August - Friday 3rd September 2010</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6ZjQcXgS6xz4kdk3NixS79q4aqBAQqojbxAId8Iko5YswVIKU6fX9KpI7W67bcnWJWRz5mEyo93g5V0OJsSr9DjNCYc01MakV6tXTNUm6KDxs2AFzUDyvsjd7znhPczJsl6GbNltS04H/s1600/P7270170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6ZjQcXgS6xz4kdk3NixS79q4aqBAQqojbxAId8Iko5YswVIKU6fX9KpI7W67bcnWJWRz5mEyo93g5V0OJsSr9DjNCYc01MakV6tXTNUm6KDxs2AFzUDyvsjd7znhPczJsl6GbNltS04H/s320/P7270170.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Title</em>: Balls</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>Artist Group</em>:</span> The Fairways Of Newport</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the third exhibition by the Serialist Art Collective</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new project by the serialist Art Collective, inspired by the Ryder Cup 2010 golf tournament to be held at the Celtic Manor resort, Newport. The theme is about golf and how the Ryder Cup coming to Newport has changed the city, good, bad, the artists views put down in paint.</span></div></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... Remembered is the crucial element of the project which was to envisage the golf world encroaching more and more into Newport, swallowing up it's suburbs into a mega golf course...what happens to the ordinary folks then, estranged from their highrise in Ringland for example? How does the Ryder Cupites compare with Newportians we know and love? This discussed in an array of colour, form and texture by the artists in their own intrinsic style.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artists: Ariel Seratonine Jones, Andrew Podmore, Austin J. Curtis, Steven Jones, Louise Horton, Stephanine Roberts, Meurigg Watkins, Caroline Smith and Dan Romer.</span></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129649324619232805.post-11533132929512411852010-08-17T14:14:00.017+01:002010-08-24T16:16:07.925+01:00<div align="center"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">GLAS <span style="color: #990000;">Exhibition Profile</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 7th August - Friday 20th August 2010</span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-a8ZrtudADnVsKDtQvL9I9RX3CXhB6U4adliCfx-D-sGMPI-mSNsYEiR-SAzs2MeOGqUmZcZ0NbGZogYV5HEb9tGY7Rp5za33-Ix-tUc9MHieLB6853hwmvKmiC7dcmVArundiSDlU5s/s1600/P7140033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-a8ZrtudADnVsKDtQvL9I9RX3CXhB6U4adliCfx-D-sGMPI-mSNsYEiR-SAzs2MeOGqUmZcZ0NbGZogYV5HEb9tGY7Rp5za33-Ix-tUc9MHieLB6853hwmvKmiC7dcmVArundiSDlU5s/s320/P7140033.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>Title</em>: Pictures</span></span></span> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Artist</em>: Josephine Atkin</span><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josephine has lived in Newport and the Newport area for 43years. Originally a journalist, she taught English at Caerleon Comprehensive School for 20 years prior to retirement. Always interested in art, she began painting seriously in the early 1990s, joining the Newport Art Society which met at that time every Tuesday evening at the Dolman Theatre.</span></div></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Early pictures were often of the canal paths around Newport and local scenes, but later she and her husband walked the South West coastal path and were inspired by the pretty villages in Devon and Cornwall, and seascapes.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2002 they decided to walk the Camino de Santiago in Northen Spain, beginning in St Jean Pied de Porte in the Pyrenees and ending in Galicia, a distance of 500 miles. It took 32 days, and most day they found time to produce water-colour sketch of their travels. These sketches were often used to form the basis of larger oil paintings on returning home.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole experience proved so inspiring that they have done something similar every year since: in 2009, for instance, they walked from Seville to Santiago, over 600miles. A typical day would involve an early start, a 15mile walk, a search for accommendation, and then time spent sketching. Apart from the spiritual element of the pilgrimage which undoubtedly affects everyone who undertakes the walks they have benefited by improving their sketching ability, and providing considerable entertainment for the other pilgrims, local people and tourists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div>Empty Shops Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299526342884916029noreply@blogger.com0