Te Puia – Maori arts and crafts
New Zealand’s Maori people traditionally retain their links to their tupuna (ancestors) through storytelling – an art form expressed through carving and weaving, as well as spoken word. Stories passed down through generations explain cultural traditions and tribal history. Te Puia – the Māori Arts & Crafts Institute in Rotorua – was created in 1963 by the New Zealand Government to maintain and preserve Māori art...
Steenbokfontein Art Celebration 2014 here
Steenbokfontein Art Celebration 2014 — 20th exhibition. The first exhibition was held Spring 1995 with the idea to make the public and passing tourist aware of the art studio and exhibition on the farm, as well as artists in the area. This exhibition consisted of 4 artists and was held in the studio – an old horse stable that I’ve renovated during 1991 The first few years artists also participated in creating big...
Four New Art Focused Tours
Specialist tour operator, The Cultural Experience has announced the launch of four brand new art focused tours, which document history of how art has been used by autocratic regimes to support their aims and how our subsequent perception of those regimes has been influenced by that art. Lovers of history and art meet For lovers of history, art helps to illustrate an understanding of the past and this is an opportunity to learn from a...
Designer Dublin Set For Christmas Return
An initiative of the Dublin City Enterprise Board and Plato Dublin, organisers are promising that Irish-made fashion, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, craft and artisan food produce will all be on the festive menu. The free Designer Dublin event attracted hundreds of visitors last Christmas and doors are opening from 10am to 5pm on December 19th, on one of the capital’s busiest shopping days of the year. Marion Walshe, organiser...
Renaissance exhibition in Florence
Italy is renowned for having a great amount of the best Renaissance art, and most of this can be seen in Florence. Currently the Palazzo Strozzi is running an exhibition to portray the origin of what is still known today as the “miracle” of the Renaissance in Florence utilising the masterpieces of sculpture and the form of figurative art in the manner it was first embodied. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to enjoy many...
Upfest Festival 2013
The recent Upfest Festival took place in Bristol where a live Urban Arts Festival took place over the May Bank Holiday from the 25th – 27th May 2013. Local artists had their work on display and the festival assisted in raising funds for The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) Artists such as Andy Council, Bungle and Carleen De Sözer, amongst many others contributed to the success of festival Thanks for the...