The Guernsey Arts Commission is set for another busy year in 2012 and one of the highlights will be the second Arts Sunday on St Peter Port Seafront on Sunday 17th June. In 2011 Arts Sunday showcased a range of arts from performance and music to painting and poetry and this year we want to [...]
The Guernsey Arts Commission and the Adult Disability Day Service have got together to help local people with disabilities and raise awareness of different cancers, cancer prevention and early diagnosis by decorating a Christmas Trees in an unusual way. The project has grown from our Community Arts Programme and its outreach to work with other [...]
Guernsey born artist Tina McCallan is bringing here Re-Creations project back to Guernsey thanks to funding from the Guernsey Arts Commission and in conjunction with our Community Arts Programme. The on going project is designed to “inject art into the backbone of Guernsey society by going directly into in the workplace and other environments where [...]
Post-Christmas, the latest exhibition in the greenhouse, is now open. The exhibition was organised in partnership with Guernsey Post and looks at a selection of the island’s festive stamp designs over the last 40 years. Dawn Gallienne, who is Head of Philatelic at Guernsey Post, was on hand at the opening of the exhibition on [...]
For our 2011 Christmas exhibition in the greenhouse we have teamed up with Guernsey Post to bring you four decades of Guernsey’s Christmas stamp designs in an exhibition called Post-Christmas, opening on Friday 18th November (with a private opening the previous evening). Every year since 1970 Guernsey Post has commissioned a series of stamps to [...]
10 of the Best, the latest exhibition in the greenhouse, the Guernsey Arts Commission’s dedicated project space in the Guernsey Information Centre, opened to the public on 9th September. The exhibition’s opening night saw more than 200 people take a look around and meet some of the artists, who’s work spans visual media from paintings [...]
This weekend is your last chance to see the We’ve Got It Covered exhibition in the greenhouse! The exhibition, which was organised in conjunction with the first Guernsey Literary Festival and explores the dust jacket designs for internationally editions of The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, has been the most widely seen exhibition [...]
The next exhibition to take place in the greenhouse takes a look at 10 of the Best art works from the various Guernsey schools’ 2011 end of year shows. Spanning arts disciplines from illustration and fashion to photography and video, the exhibition, entitled 10 of the Best, offers Guernsey students a chance to display their [...]
It was a sand and seaweed sculpture of a lion that was selected by the judges as the winner of the second annual Guernsey Arts Commission Art On The Beach event on Sunday 19th June, which this year was supported by NatWest. Despite the less than ideal weather about 50 people came down to Vazon [...]
Take a look at photos from the workshops on our Facebook page. The Guernsey Arts Commission will be running a series of short workshops during half term at the end of May and begining of June with the support of NatWest. The three ‘taster workshops’ are being run as a part of our Community Arts [...]
