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Category Archive: Exhibitions
A new community art trail is being launched in the spring in the picturesque village of Bonsall. A […]
Banks Mill Studios, the University of Derby’s incubation centre for creative industries is celebrating its 20th anniversary this […]
Giant spiders, dancing skeletons, winged goblins and hordes of ghostly warriors are among the subjects depicted in a […]
The annual Derbyshire Woodland Festival is set within the beautiful grounds of Elvaston Castle and Country Park and […]
Community arts organisation Artcore opened a new arts space in Derby City Centre today – a day that […]
The three latest recruits to the ranks of the Peak District Artisans may all be from the same […]
The fifth Buxton Art Trail is the biggest in its history. The Buxton Biennale, as it is known, […]
Many an artist has confessed to me that they have lacked confidence in their work at some stage […]
There are only a few days left to wait until Derbyshire’s summer season of festivals kicks off with […]
Belper Arts Festival is preparing the biggest festival to date with over 1,000 participants – many of them […]
It was a brief encounter during a school exchange trip ten years ago that sparked what has become […]
Artist John Rattigan observed that although angels have always been leading lights in Biblical stories, references to their […]
Banks Mill is an old Victorian rope factory which was purchased by the University of Derby in 1998 […]
This year Green Door Printmaking Studio at Banks Mill in Derby is celebrating the tenth year of their […]
This is a drawing of the skull of a victim of a massacre at the Iron Age hill […]
Melbourne is turning red for its annual festival this year to commemorate the men who lost their lives […]
Patchings Arts Centre is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its annual festival this year with a diverse display […]
Buxton Festival Fringe is preparing for another bumper event with 181 entrants, as performers now see it as […]
The Sitwell ‘Trio’ – Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell – are well known for their influence on early 20th […]
A special exhibition by three of Derbyshire’s top landscape artists, James Preston, Colin Halliday (work pictured) and Phil Dyke, […]
Seamstress Tracey Coverley is a maestro with the machine and can’t contain the joy she feels being able […]
Forming part of The Grand Tour Season 3, Derby Museums and award-winning Derby photographer Simon Mackney have joined together […]
Our Game, a 5,000-piece community project celebrating Ashbourne’s Shrovetide Football game, will be one of the main highlights […]
Artists will be celebrating the 20th year of Open Up Sheffield, one of the largest and most successful […]
To Lyndon Evans, his sketchbook is sacred. It goes out with him at all times. In fact you […]
Artist Joan Semmel once said: “There are many great women artists. And we should not still be talking […]
The annual Ashbourne Festival Summer Exhibition takes place from June 23-30. If you wish to enter your work, […]
For the past year there has been a thread running through the activities of the Chesterfield Embroiderers’ Guild […]
The Grand Tour – a cultural journey across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire – will be taking place from March […]
Some ordinary people become involved in extraordinary situations. The way they react can become the stuff of legends. […]
The owner of Derbyshire’s Renishaw Hall and Gardens, Alexandra Sitwell, has decided it is time that the women […]
Behind the Smile is an exhibition to be held at Banks Mill Studios, Derby, from February 26-March 23. […]
Peak District Artisan Ingrid K Karlsson is to stage a special one-night only exhibition of her Moon Almanac […]
One name that has passed the lips of many artists and makers that I have interviewed is Rachael […]
The first major retrospective of Derby surrealist artist Marion Adnams is to be staged at the city’s Museum […]
Haddon Hall, near Bakewell, will again host Candlelight Tours this December. The evening will begin with a glass […]
A new shop promoting art, homewares and gifts by independent artists, makers and designers has opened its doors […]
Glass blowing is a dramatic craft, perfect for demonstrating as audiences will always be transfixed by the molten, […]
For one weekend a year Banks Mill Studios in Derby opens its doors to let us in to […]
