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Imaginative images for November
Swindon Council's Artscape is planning the town's first imaging festival to bring together traditional
photographic techniques, with still and moving images created with digital cameras and computers.
The festival which focuses on to apply to be included in an open exhibition application form, con-
creative approaches to making exhibition in the Wyvern Theatre tact Barbara Dixon, Visual Arts
images through photography will
Lower Foyer on the theme of Re-
I ' be held from 4 to 14 November. generation. Officer, Artscape, Swindon Coun-
cil on 466520 or mail: bdixon@
It will take art into the street as A wide variety of events and swindon.gov.uk
. arralenl P ioulh AP9( NOW
well as showing work in more con- exhibitions are being planned in www.swindonartscape.co.uk
r y I, fki16, Rli vet, yHi ventional gallery spaces. For ex- collaboration with New College, the
Eiscuiil & RUIKL, DRIED FRUIT, PEA & COFFEE, ample, a projection screen in the University of Bath in Swindon, Cre8 Behind the Scenes. A photo-
CMUTNEYI,1PIC11, IAU(El AND MORE,
town centre will show work by well Studios, Bishopstone School, graphic exhibition of work not nor-
CONTACT: known photographers, John Goto North Swindon and West Swindon mally observed by the public at the
PHONE: 01793323015 MAR
\NDREW AND JOHN MARKS S1•_ and John Kippin. li braries. Great Western Hospital, by stu-
$WINDC.
IsMONDE-wHFTE MOBILE: 1' 3683 SNIN: Photographers living or working Workshops and talks will be held dents from the University of Bath in
OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berk- in the Town Hall and Arts Centre. Swindon, until 9 September.
9am to 5.30pm
shire and Oxfordshire are invited To receive further information The GWH Gallery. Mon to Fri
about the festival, and for an open 6pm - 8pm; Sat & Sun:1 Oam - 6pm
Swindon & Cricklade Railway Landmark approach to Swindon still unclear
Saturday 7th August TO USN TADPOLE LANE The first anniversary approaches of the announcement that a spectacu-
MURDER MYSTERY EVENING lar piece of public art is to be built in North Swindon. but when this will
NsOO NORTH
To book tickets call 692588 : STATION N take place is unknown.
SWINDON
Commissioned by Swindon
Saturday 14th and Council's Percentage for Art Policy
Sunday 15th August iNa^^csp°. and funded entirely by the devel-
VINTAGE TRANSPORT PURTON ROAD a HAYDON opers of the 5.500 houses at Priory 113
WICK
WEST Vale, permission has been given
WEEKEND SWINDON
for a visually striking 15 metre high
Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th August
Blunsdon Station structure to be located on an island
& Monday 30th August Tadpole Lane between the roads at Junction 1 on
Swindon. Thamesdown Drive.
BICENTENNIAL OF STEAM WEEKEND
Tel: (01793) 771615 The curved steel and aluminium
When special events are not scheduled a train service
sculpture designed by architects
operates on Sundays, 11 am to 4pm. Softroom takes the form of the
intersection of the roads as seen
from above.
Coloured glass panels. which will
be internally lit at night, take their
reference point from the Orchis
morio, the rare green-winged or-
Fomcy sow^ewkeYe chid to be found at the Haydon
pp y Meadow Site of Special Scientific ensure that all safety considera-
Interest at the opposite end of
xl e evk^ ^oy Thamesdown Drive. ti ons are dealt with."
She said that Softroom are still
Swindon Council visual arts of- working on detailed designs and
costings and no construction date
S^hday L ck'? ficer Celia Yeoman said that great was yet available.
care was being taken with the de-
sign. This is a large structure in a • Orchis morio threatened by grow-
very public place and we have to ing population - see page 40.
Artists with nowhere to exhibit
Kathleen Danswan, Janet Hand and Jennifer Thompson have just
gained distinctions in their HNC Stitched Textile exams. But, having
studied for two years as distance learners at Gloucester College of Art,
as there is no equivalent course locally, they cannot find anywhere in
the town to show off their talent.
"We would now like to stage an exhibition but as much of our work
requires secure glass cases there is nowhere suitable which is a great
shame," said Kathleen. The exhibition spaces in the Wyvern and the
C[nVLI^L^•O^,PJL Z Arts Centre are unsuitable
for textiles. We know that
Traditional Sunday Roast tt there are other artists in the
Carvery 12.15pm - 5.00pm same position and we would
be interested to hear from
y $Y^ S^^ them."
$es+ cr
To help the artists, or to
6es. '.Ves[err press for better provision,
Blunsdon House Hotel
* * * * call Kathleen on 533268.
Trio of textile talent, from
Tel: 01793 721701 left, Kathleen Danswan,
Blunsdon House Hotel, Blunsdon, Swindon SN26 7AS Janet Hand and Jennifer
Thompson