tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11796432979637515872009-02-21T12:58:21.919ZWelcome, this is a weblog by Quay Arts about live events, visual arts, culture, artist workshops and much more. The Quay Arts Centre is the Isle of Wight’s leading art gallery and venue for live arts events.Quay Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406213389143721161noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1179643297963751587.post-5705439938852770352008-05-29T10:31:00.003+01:002008-05-29T12:10:35.287+01:00

The Quay Arts had a family outing last bank holiday weekend and moved their jubilee artist studios, artists and furniture to take part in the Big Green Picnic! Lots of visitors, lots of smiles and lots of creative, green fun. To name a few, we had Sue paraskeva on the pottery wheel, Ros with Morsebags (paint your own shopping bag), Nina bulley with jewellry demonstrations, Gerry Price with

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Last night we opened our doors to well wishers, supporters, friends and organisers of 2 celebrated Island organisations, the Isle of wight photographer of the year group and the Ryde Carnival Centre.As always the IWPOY have selected some breathtaking 50 finalists and we are extremely happy to have them back to display their 'wall of photography'. You can come along and see the exhibition in the

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You know what people say about Mondays? They are right! Perhaps the best example of this is yesterday. Starting busily enough, with Shakespeare workshops for schools upstairs, dancing tots downstairs and Grant from Mozzo arriving to deliver the new coffee (see http://www.mozzo.co.uk/) but soon it was increasingly clear that all was not well with the river.We had received various communications

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Head chef Martyn has his say on the current Rope Store exhibition, Still Life by Janice Thwaites.I understand completely what Janice is trying to achieve but she just doesn’t achieve it. The Rope Store Gallery is the wrong type of space for this exhibition, so it doesn’t achieve its purpose. It would need a lot more duvets to achieve the feeling of entrapment; the windows of the Rope Store would

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Nearing the end of my first year, and I think I finally understand what cultural overload might be!Last night we had the preview drinks for the Royal Watercolour Society exhibition in the Michael West Gallery at Quay Arts. For all sorts of good reasons we chose the same night to put on the Robert Mitchell and Omar Puente gig in the theatre.Quite a few people turning up for the Robert Mitchell and

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Finetuned's Relay Exhibition Finetuned curators and Gavin Peacock and Julian Weaver present Relay. 7 newly commissioned installations and text works by artists Giles Drayton, Clare Gasson and Bernard G. Mills, writers Yve Lomax and Mo White.This exhibition is already into its first week here at Quay Arts and has gone down a storm so far. The exhibition is based mainly on a set of simultaneous

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A big Welldone from the Quay Arts team to both the students and gallery educators who worked together to create Tangled wood, an installation by medina High students, Tim Johnson and Chris Jenkins. The magical wood was created using willow. The students created drawing and Ideas inspired by their visit to East Weaves West, our current exhibition in the Rope Store. The Students are returning for a

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We took part in White Air as part of a programme of activities which took us to other places and events over the summer. We did this project as "Free Quay" in partnership with SCAN City Eye and John Cattle, all of whom did some excellent filming of tricks and extreme sports action. These were then edited into short clips, previewed on our plasma screen in the marquee and downloaded by request

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SUMMER OUTINGS AND SCHOOLSIt already seems so far away, but we had a great summer, with outings to Art on the lawns at Northwood House in Cowes (a great event) as well as marquees at both White Air and the Bestival. These last two deserve separate posts, so that's what I'll do.Also worth a mention is the Summer School activity, which has been happening throughout the summer. As well as our

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