Wednesday 6 April 2016

Art in the City @ Newport Museum and Art Gallery

Newport NOW presents a complimentary exhibition to the Art in the City shopfront project.
Work by all contributing artists will be on display in the Newport Museum Mezzanine from Saturday 23 April until Saturday 7 May. Please come along and check out these excellent pieces when you can.

http://www.newport.gov.uk/heritage/index.cfm/eventDetails/…/

The announcement of the overall competition winner has now been rescheduled to coincide with this event — more information to follow.

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Tuesday 1 March 2016

The Art In The City public vote is now open!

Newport Now has installed the work of eight local artists in the windows of empty buildings in Newport City centre, brightening up our streets and celebrating the creativity of our local talent.

We would now like to call on the public to decide which artist will receive the £500 prize.

The polls will be open from today until midnight, Friday 11th March 2016 and the winner will be announced at the end of March.

For your consideration:-
  
Rhys Webber, We Are Newport. Photography

 
Gerard Whyman, Street Scene 1. Line and watercolour

 

Mike McCombe, Bridge at Night. Photography

 

 Chris Hanbury, From Market Town To City. Acrylic


Dennis Gardiner, Direction 5. Digital Artwork

Fi Jefferies, The City Lines. Ink

 

Marion Cheung, Toxic. Oil on Canvas, Vinyl Stencil, Computer Keyboard


Andrew Nawroski, The New Renaissance 1. Collage

The locations of each artwork can be found on the Art In The City facebook page (www.facebook.com/artnpt), the npt-art.uk blog and www.twitter.com/npt_art.

There are multiple ways you can vote:-

1. Leave a comment under your favourite piece on our facebook page or the npt-art.uk blog.
2. Tweet your favourite with the hash-tag #NPT_ART
3. Email your choice to barrie@npt-art.uk
4. Post your choice to Newport Now, 26 Skinner Street, Newport, NP20 1HB

If you vote via social media, feel free to post a selfie taken with your favourite!

Furthermore, we are hoping to display the work of all entrants at a location in the city centre in the near future. More news to follow on that.

We'd like to thank all the artists who submitted. The pieces were all excellent and we only wish we’d been able to secure more windows to display on - hopefully there will be chance to do something similar in the future.

We look forward to seeing your selections.

Barrie

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Installation Sneak Preview #8




Mike McCombe. Bridge At Night, 2014. Photograph

“Newport’s historic Transporter Bridge amongst the bright bustle of the modern city.”

See the bigger picture at Upper Dock Street


See more of Mike's work at: mikemccombe.tumblr.com


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Monday 14 December 2015

Installation Sneak Preview #7




Marion Cheung. Toxic, 2014. Oil on canvas, vinyl stencil, computer keyboard

“Submerged within digital worlds, it’s not often we think what happens to our unwanted gadgets.”

See the bigger picture at Upper Dock Street


See more of Marion's work at: www.marioncheung-artist.com


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Friday 11 December 2015

Installation Sneak Preview #6



Gerard Whyman. Street Scene 1, circa 2002. Line and watercolour

“A depiction of a row of shops in Commercial Street from the 19th Century.”

See the bigger picture at Upper Dock Street


See more of Gerard's work at: www.gerardwhyman.co.uk


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Thursday 10 December 2015

Installation Sneak Preview #5 



Dennis Gardiner. Direction 5, 2015. Digital artwork

“My digital images deal with my conscious and unconscious response to my cultural environment. My references are abstracted from decorative man-made surfaces, symbols and geographical locations in Newport. These visual anomalies are reinterpreted in my digital images, creating a physical and intellectual visual statement of colour and marks.”

See the bigger picture at 147 Commercial Street



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Wednesday 9 December 2015

Installation Sneak Preview #4



Andrew Nawroski. The New Renaissance 1, 2015. Paper and digital collage

“Old and new combined - digital and paper collage.”

See the bigger picture at 30 Commercial Street.


Visit Andrew's site at www.nawroski.wordpress.com


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