Descent by Juno Doran – April 2013

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“Descent” is an exhibition and drawing installation by the artist Juno Doran, currently working from a studio at Cambridge Art Salon, using the media of drawing on paper and photography.

This series of works had developed as an artistic response to a profound personal experience of loss, whilst simultaneously searching a form of iconographic representation of raw human pain in a wider sense.

Juno Doran is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Cambridge, England, using a variety of media in her work, including drawing, text, painting and film, exploring core issues of personal existence, memory and identity, as well as wider issues with a global context. Throughout her artistic career she has exhibited internationally, including theUnited States and South Africa, as well as in several venues in England and Scotland.

 

For more information visit the artists website here

Romsey Mill – April 2013

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This April students from Romsey Mill’s alternative education programme will profile their art work at the Art Salon.

The Mill’s alternative education programme supports young people, 13-16, who have struggled to engage with mainstream school and the completed pieces are a part of the student’s study towards an Level 1 Arts Award. So if it’s a fine collection of oil landscapes and acrylic portraits you’re after look no further…

Romsey Mill is a Cambridgeshire Charity creating opportunities with young people and families to overcome disadvantage and social isolation

To findout more, visit their website here

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11 : 5th April – 17th April

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Eleven visual artists who work at the Fitzwilliam Museum are putting together a joint exhibition of their art work for an exhibition in April 2013 at the Cambridge Art Salon. The artists work at the museum in a variety of different jobs from specialist technicians in Antiquities and Applied Art Departments, Educators in the Education Team, Image Management Team and a few of the museum’s freelance artists. Their work is often inspired by the museum and the fascinating art work and artefacts they work with every day.

Artist and Education Officer Sarah Blake says ‘The Fitzwilliam is a fascinating place to work, full of intriguing objects and art and I often find time to draw and paint from the collection, we are a friendly group of artists and get a real buzz from inspiring museum visitors’.

Ruth Blundell, Ali Ayres, David Evans, Chen Xi, Josie Camus, Nathan Huxtable, Ian Crighton, Anna Betts, Rob Law, John Wiltshire, Sarah Blake

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Sister Luna – 28th March-3rd April

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Artwork & Illustration from Lucy Graves

A show of doodle explorations sparked by the invisible; music, human nature, consciousness, and outer space. Records the artist has illustrated and screenprints will also be available.

Join Lucy for mint tea and music at the private view, Friday 29th March, 6.30pm – 9pm

With live music from The Doozer

An interview with the artist by Dummy Magazine can be found here


http://www.sisterluna.co.uk/

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‘The People Who Shape My World’ – Heloise Toop, 16th – 26th march

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Large-scale oils from one of Cambridge’s rising star portrait painters, Heloise Toop.

Just seventeen when she had a portrait selected for exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London, Heloise studied at The Heatherleys School of Fine Art in Chelsea until 2008. She’s exhibited in various shows around Cambridge and London and undertakes a range of commissions of adults, children and professionals – as well as working on more narrative paintings in her own time.

Drawn to bright colours, fancy dress and quirky styles, a unique joie de vivre infuses Heloise’s work that has earned her a loyal following in Cambridge – many of whom are the vibrant subjects of this show.

http://heloisetoop.com/

Women Inspired – International Women’s Day, March 8th

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Women Inspired, March 8th – Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre

Come and enjoy this fantastic show from the Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre’s art group opening on Friday March 8th, on International Women’s Day.

The show features an altered ‘street piano’ that the group created in October 2012 with Play Me, I’m Yours http://www.streetpianos.com/ and the Faculty of Music, as part of the University of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas. The altered piano is inspired by Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.

Come along and celebrate!

Romsey Art Festival

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Exciting opportunities volunteering at the Romsey Art Festival, Cambridge

Already a vibrant and well loved area of Cambridge, Romsey is set to become part of the cultural quarter of the city, highlighted this summer with the first ever Romsey Art Festival.  This will celebrate and showcase the rich way of life in the area.

From Spring 2013 artist-led workshops will be held with a variety of community groups within Romsey, where collaborative artwork will be produced to the theme of community for the public to enjoy over the festival weekend.

We are looking for 4 dynamic volunteers who are excited about community and the arts.

  • Are you an avid publicist who has a passion for promoting worthy causes?
  • Are you an ardent fundraiser who has an ability to collect heaps of sponsorship?
  • Are you a website design and systems enthusiast who pays attention to detail?
  • Do you love location scouting and have a good sense for opportunities not to be missed?
  • Do you get pleasure from engaging with people from all walks of life?

If you answered ‘yes’ and you are not afraid to use your initiative then we are eager to hear from you.

This is a wonderful opportunity to gain experience in socially engaged / community arts development.

Prior experience of working on an arts project would be desirable but willingness and enthusiasm is paramount.

We are looking for people who learn new skills and processes easily and quickly with a flexible approach and a willingness to embrace change.  You will be diplomatic, pragmatic and personable.

Experience in PR, events management, sponsorship and marketing will be offered through critical engagement and creative involvement in the festival.

Festival launch date = 3rdAugust with community workshops taking place in the run up.

For further information about working on this pioneering project please email;

romseyartfestival@cambridgeartsalon.org.uk

 

 

LGBT Arts at the Art Salon

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For the first time, Cambridge Art Salon open their doors in celebration of LGBT History Month 2013. Featuring stunning photography from the likes of Sadie Ramone and Karl Dmitri Bishop, plus vibrant art works from artists Dittany Rose and Paula Metcalf – this will be a real treat.
Come along, between 21st and 28th February, late Thursday 5pm – 7pm and 10am – 5.30pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
You are also invited to a special, initimate closing party for the show on 27th Feb at 7pm.
Bring Your Own Bottle!
“We are …thrilled that so many organisations from across Cambridge have come together this year to make LGBT History Month a success.  Bringing about change towards an accepting society is not just the responsibility of a few, but can be achieved by many of us working together “ Kate Durrant.  Encompass Network
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Aurora Cacciapuoti

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This Valentines Day, the winner of our Love Cambridge Art competition, Aurora Cacciapuoti a Sardinian Cambridge based illustrator will be exhibiting her original, often humourous work at the Salon.

Thursday 14th February, 6.30pm – 9.00pm
http://www.auroracacciapuoti.com/
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Moff Skellington

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An intriguing show of psychedelic surrealism organised by Frank Rosewell of Show Me Your Art.

Once upon a time, a painter named Andy Quayle produced work of a highly personal nature. Though rendered into a code of symbols his images were accurate and truthful. However, this way of working did Quayle’s health no good at all …and ultimately led, in the summer of 2012, to heart failure.

His alter ego the musical poet Moff Skellington*, who survived the fateful ambulance journey from Otley to Bradford Royal Infirmary, has now assumed all painterly duties.

1st – 13th Feb. Please come into the gallery at the weekend for wine, nibbles and to see the show, from 10am until 5.30pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Late Thursday 7th Feb 5pm – 7pm.

DO – an exhibition of creative work by staff at Hills Road Art and Design Department

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The opening will be a bit of a ‘DO’ and the work on display will be the result of a lot of DOING!

The work will cover a range of approaches reflecting the interests and enthusiasms of a diverse team of artists. We will be showing Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Textiles at the Cambridge Art Salon from 18th – 29th  January 2013.

Some of the work will be mysterious and intriguing, much of it will be beautiful! We really hope that people will come along to celebrate and enjoy the work of the Hills Road Art Team.

Home

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This is a dynamic exhibition by Sophie Hill and Philip Cornett.  A collaboration of their individual domestic spaces manifests itself into a unique installation of paintings, sound, objects and ideas. It serves as a platform to question and discuss the differences found between individual concepts of Home, while always searching for their common threads. Woven into the fabric of the Home is an ineluctable histor…y, elements of which the artists intend to enigmatically invoke.

The Art Salon will be transformed into a spatial hybrid— the extraction of this private inner world that is nurtured by the Home within the discerning public setting of an art gallery. The social barriers of both will be blurred as the public is invited to explore, interact, and become part of the space allowing them to create their own narratives of this displaced domestic world.

There will be a brief performance by Philip at the Private View on the 4th of January at 6pm. On Saturday 5th and 12th of January there will be a full performance of work beginning at 4pm until late. These ritualistic and séance-like performances will invoke and uncover hidden characters buried within the exhibition.