Externalising the internal - by Peter Devonald our poet in residence

Bodies inscribed with complex hieroglyphics,

every abuse, trauma, ghosts and ghosting,

OUTSIDE THE GALLERY SPACE - BY Michaela Hall

It would seem a crime to explore outsider artists without referencing Banksy,…

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald - "Outsider Art"

The term outsider art was coined in 1972 in the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal as an English equivalent for art brut (French: "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s…

REVIEW OF _ Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart

Family history is invoked through the use of photographs and other memorabilia. Absent fathers provide another point of connection…

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SKANDALON - BY JUL MAROH - Review by Mildred Burchett-Vass

Something that has sparked interest in recent years is the presence of the narrator in comics and graphic novels. In Skandalon, Tazane himself...

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Text in art - The Writings on The Wall - by Michaela Hall

...no matter how they are used, can not be underestimated and that language is a creative tool for us all.

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald Issue 52: Word Art, Slogans and Manifestos

How to explain modern chaos/ confusion and MADNESS of crackers without cheese?
How to keep sane when the world is crazy...

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Science in situ - by Michaela Hall

The pieces above demonstrate how art can help to create a synthesis between art and science…

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Peter Devonald - Science and Art as poetry

Roll up, roll up, to the greatest science show on earth
you might not understand them yet, but you're sure to see their worth.
There is mystery and magic here - to witness and behold ….

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Michaela hall - Stories as Art...

for his iconic surrealist and bold paintings of dripping clocks and obscure dreamscapes…

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Peter Devonald -Poet in Residence -Fifty And Fabulous

Stevenson's poem is about an imagined happy homecoming in death - a short poem of longing and returning, a profound sense of accomplishment and belonging. Larkin's is very much the opposite - a savage condemnation…

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Issue 48 - the studio space as art... Peter Devonald – Poet in Residence The Artist Studio

Glimpses of the artist’s true intention, heart, seen in Exquisite Fallacies, their past, present…

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Issue 48 - The studio space...The exhibited studio, by Michaela Hall

One artist who is a master at this is, is one of my personal favourites, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Her explosively colourful

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Issue 45 Tipping Points - Michaela Hall - "The Art of Balance"

Their sculptures are playful with materials we want to touch and feel, they’re visually striking in colour and shape…

Resident writers Michaela Hall, poet Peter Devonald, and reviewer Mildred Burchett-Vass.