On Saturday October 22nd The Art & Islands Foundation, which is supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission, are holding a day long symposium following on from the 2010 Arts & Islands Conference which was organised by the GAC. The day, titled Creativity is About Looking at Things in a Different Way, is taking place at [...]
Last week something happened in Guernsey which got people talking, more specifically talking about culture and the arts on small islands and even more fundamental to that was the conversations that happened about culture and arts in Guernsey. For only the second time in 2 years a large scale debate was started between academics, politicians [...]
Alderney Stones Project for Alderney, April 2011 As part of the Art & Islands initiative, and with support from the Guernsey Arts Commission, Andy Goldsworthy is working on a major work for Alderney which will open in April 2011. The current exhibition in the greenhouse is showing, for the first time, Goldsworthy’s working drawings for [...]
On Thursday 24th June as part of the 2nd Art & Islands and 6th International Small Islands Conference there will be an opportunity to listen to Matthew Taylor the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts deliver the Conference’s keynote lecture on Creativity and Sustainable Citizenship. In this keynote lecture, Matthew Taylor will make [...]
At 7.30pm on Monday 21st June at the Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts, there will be a very special opportunity to see the island premiere of Andy Goldsworthy’s award winning film Rivers and Tides. As part of the 2nd Art & Islands and 6th International Small Islands Conference, Rivers and Tides will be introduced by [...]
In just over 4 weeks time, delegates from around the world will descend on Guernsey to attend the 2nd Art & Islands Conference at Castle Cornet from 23rd June until 25th June. Art and Islands will be working in partnership with the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI) who will be hosting their 6th International [...]
