The Abingdon Artists autumn exhibition at St. Helen’s Church is on from 11th – 18th September from 10am – 5pm. St Helen’s church can be seen in this painting by Josie Chappelle of East St. Helen Street.
John E sent me a few images of the exhibition.
I chose the two where he had people looking at the art.
During the daylight an artist was seen working on a number of charcoal sketches.
When evening arrived a group of lighting engineers took over. Watched by the museum curator, the architect and project team from Ridge and Partners, the lighting engineers tried out various positions under the County Hall …
Nothing too fancy. Just up lights trying to arrive at the best way of showing the museum exterior and undercroft at night.
All part of the impending closure and redevelopment project.
The museum curator apologised that the museum could not play such a big role in Heritage Day this year but the closure is now so close.
The mural in the underpass – showing people from the past – was repainted a couple of years ago and covered with an anti graffiti covering.
That does not stop graffiti but it does make grafitti a little easier to remove.
A google search shows that this particular graffiti statement “Question Everything” predates most of the rest of the mural.
Euripides (Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC) said “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
The Vale Council usually manages to get major builders to put some of their money into a local arts project to give a bit more character to the new housing area. In the case of the Tanneries estate, off the Drayton Road, there is paving of ‘polished and sandblasted red and black granite‘ showing plants and animals found on the neighbouring Ock Valley walk.
It has been created by the artist Bhajan Hunjan with the help of children from the Unicorn School – Abingdon’s very own school for children with dylsexia.
The Unicorn School says on it’s website, in their section about art, ‘Pablo Picasso was dyslexic!’