Street art project for Abbotswood underpass

Abbotswood Action Group are organising a street art project in the underpass by the precinct. The project will be led by an organisation called Paintsmiths. The dates for the project are as follows:

• Workshops at the Youth club: Friday 7th July, Tuesday 11th of July (7pm to 9pm)
• Workshops at the shops: Monday 24th 11am to 1:30pm and Tuesday 25th (5pm to 7:30pm)
• Painting In the Underpass during the week of: Monday 24th to Friday 28th July

More information about Paintsmiths can be found here: http://www.paintsmiths.org/

Abbotswood Action Group would love to see anyone who is interested at the workshops.

It's actually 30 years since the previous mural was done - local people of a certain age will remember the alien with a basketball. Does anyone have any photos of it? If so, please email paul.hulbert@gmail.com - if they're prints, we would be happy to scan them and let you have the prints back.

Charity art exhibition in Yate Shopping Centre this week

Juan Nuevo of Chipping Sodbury Lions Club,
the organiser of the exhibition

There's an interesting art exhibition this week in the shop next to Halifax Bank on West Walk. It's called "Art By Yate, 8 by 8" and local artists and photographers are presenting their views of the area in an 8 inch by 8 inch format. There's a wide range of ideas and techniques.

Entry is free and all the work is available for sale, with the proceeds going to Lions Club charities. The exhibition is open all this week - it's well worth a visit.

Art by Yate, 8 by 8

Calling all local artists! Art by Yate is a colourful and imaginative art project created by local people, children, and artists - in fact anybody can have a go. Collectively, the canvases can be seen as an exploration of modern culture and life in Yate, Chipping Sodbury and the surrounding areas.

The vision is to create an exhibition of 8×8 inch canvases each created by a local artist, child, mother, father, or local resident. Anyone can take part.

The canvases will be sold in support of the Chipping Sodbury Lions Club. To take part or find out more, email artbyyate@gmail.com

Clean Slate art competition for young people 13-19

Time to create your masterpiece...

Calling all budding young painters, potters, sculptors, aerosol artists, photographers, illustrators and installation artists - Avon and Somerset Police are hosting the West Country's answer to The Turner Prize!

Clean Slate is an Art Competition open to young people aged 13 - 19 who live, work or are educated in the Avon and Somerset force area.

There are three categories - 2D, 3D and Digitally Generated Art, each split into two age brackets, 13 to 15 and 16 to 19.

With exhibition opportunities and celebrity guests the competition is a must for any emerging talents.

There is no theme. You can do whatever you want (as long as it's suitable for a family audience)

The slate is clean! The canvas is blank! Find your inspiration and create your masterpiece!

Check out the competition details here - closing date May 18th.

Arts festival on your doorstep

Take HeArt is an arts festival which brings together the very best local amateur art groups for a week of exhibitions at Yate Library throughout May and June.

The festival is a great opportunity to see some wonderful art, find out about local art groups and maybe even purchase your very own masterpiece made in South Gloucestershire.

It's already been running for a couple of weeks, but here are the remaining dates:

• Thursday 19 May to Tuesday 24 May - Doynton Painting Group
• Thursday 26 May to Tuesday 31 May - Frome Valley Artists
• Thursday 2 June to Tuesday 7 June - Palettes of Pleasure
• Thursday 9 June to Tuesday 14 June - Winterbourne Down Art Group
• Thursday 16 June to Tuesday 21 June - Hanham Art Club
• Thursday 23 June to Tuesday 28 June - Patchway Watercolourists

The exhibitions can be viewed during library opening hours which are Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays  9.30am – 7pm, Saturdays 9.30am – 5pm and Sundays 11am – 3pm (except for bank holidays)