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New Lights 2013 offers top prizes and exhibition opportunity for emerging Cumbrian artists

10:00am Sunday 19th May 2013

CUMBRIAN artists aged between 23-35 have until May 31 to apply for New Lights 2013.

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Bodil Manz exhibition brings master of her craft to Bowness

8:10am Friday 17th May 2013

BLACKWELL’S summer season opens with porcelain pieces by a top Danish artist.

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Impressive young Russian artist has Lakeland exhibition

8:10am Monday 6th May 2013

AN EMERGING young artistic talent from St Petersburg has an exhibition running at Lucy’s on a Plate, Ambleside.

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Brewery prizewinner in the frame

8:00am Saturday 4th May 2013

MANDY Barker’s Soup exhibition is running at the Brewery’s Sugar Store Gallery until May 16.

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Printfest attracts top artists to Ulverston

8:10am Tuesday 30th April 2013

PRINTFEST takes place this weekend.

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Ben McLeod returns to his fine art roots for Kendal exhibition

5:40pm Monday 29th April 2013

Peter Blaskett’s Signature Gallery hosts a new exhibition that captures the vitality and living quality of the landscape.

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Brewery arts backed Redeemer of the Spirits manga novel goes online

5:20pm Monday 8th April 2013

AS PART of last summer’s Brewery Art Centre’s Japanese Bunkasai Festival, Manga artist Kayo Nakamura spent four weeks embracing the Lakeland landscape carrying out research for a novel.

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Brantwood gives artistic talent window of opportunity

6:20pm Thursday 4th April 2013

A BURGEONING young artistic talent is following in the revered footsteps of John Ruskin with an exhilarating exhibition that echoes the great man’s own ideals.

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World class wildlife photography on show at Rheged

10:20am Monday 1st April 2013

THE world’s most prestigious competition and exhibition for wildlife and natural history photography has returned to the Rheged Centre.

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Mountain painting gives Kate's work new perspective

9:10am Saturday 23rd March 2013

Artist Kate Bentley is on a roll at the moment.

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Transitions exhibition sees artist Liz Vaughan in abstract mode

8:10am Saturday 23rd March 2013

A WELL-known name in the region’s arts world is staging an exhibition at Ulverston’s Coronation Hall.

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Work by artist Rachel Greenbank features in Beginnings exhibition

8:40am Thursday 21st March 2013

IT IS GOOD to see one of Cumbria’s finest creative talents back on the exhibition trail with work in the latest Kendal Arts Community show.

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Natural world is centre stage in superb new Red Barn Gallery exhibition

8:20am Saturday 16th March 2013

WO printmakers, two painters, two ceramicists and a jeweller, each in their own way deeply involved in and inspired by the countryside they live in, feature in the new Red Barn Gallery exhibition.

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Kendal's Amabile Choir triumphs in national choral competition

5:40pm Monday 11th March 2013

KENDAL’S Amabile Girls’ Choir has triumphed for the second time in one of the top national choral competitions.

Cumbria

Lakeland Arts Trust stages major retrospective of work by Lynn Chadwick

5:20pm Thursday 7th March 2013

A SELECTION of acclaimed works from a celebrated British sculptor have been installed on the well-tended lawns of Blackwell.

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'Spiderman' spotted climbing Kendal Town Hall clock tower

10:13am Tuesday 5th March 2013

HOLY COW, Batman! It’s Kendal Town Hall like you’ve never seen it before!

New works inspired by William and Dorothy Wordsworth are focus of Grasmere exhibition

8:10am Saturday 2nd March 2013

THEIR Colours And Their Forms: Artists’ Responses to Wordsworth is being staged at the Wordsworth Trust following research that highlighted how the Grasmere-based arts organisation needed to take more risks and be provocative, if it wanted William Wordsworth’s work to resonate with today’s generation.

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Are you an artist? Then sign up for a major new art fair coming to Kendal in summer

9:51am Friday 1st March 2013

A CALL has gone out for artists to sign up for a major new art fair coming to Kendal this summer.

Cumbria

Smiths legend Johnny Marr to play northern gig

2:44pm Tuesday 26th February 2013

ARGUABLY the greatest guitarist of his generation is on his way to the region.

North Lancs

Text exhibition is creative platform for talented Kendal College students

9:00am Sunday 17th February 2013

A SHOWCASE of work by talented Kendal College art and design students is on display at Kendal Museum.

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