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• Administrator & Marketing / Wimbledon International Short Film Festival / London

  19-09-2020 20:30
  Wimbledon International Short Film Festival are looking for someone to take over Admin & Marketing responsibilities for the 2021 festival. 
  We are looking for someone who can commit 2 hours...
  
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• Wild plants of Barbados illustrated on plantation ledgers – in pictures

  19-09-2020 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Artist Annalee Davis was walking in fields once used for sugarcane in her Barbados homeland when she spotted unfamiliar plants. “I was taught to see them as weeds but now I understand their value offering biodiversity to exhausted land and their historical use in bush medicine.” Davis started pressing and using specially mixed Victorian paint to draw these plants on old plantation ledger pages. Colonialism wiped out Barbados’s biodiversity in the 17th century by replacing local
  
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• Face to FaceTime … Jamie Oliver’s pukka portrait takes art to the future

  19-09-2020 16:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Artist Jonathan Yeo’s app shares the slow creative process of his remote sittings with the celebrity chefJamie Oliver is the master of “bashing together” a quick “pukka” supper in front of his TV audience. His old friend, the leading portraitist Jonathan Yeo, produces his acclaimed works of celebrities and politicians over hours of sittings.This weekend they unveiled the fruits of a new “slow technology” designed by Yeo to provide a unique demonstration
  
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• Director / Bath Spa Productions / South West

  19-09-2020 15:57
  Bath Spa Productions is looking for directors to join its company to deliver a season of live theatre and digital projects from Oct 2020 to May 2021. We are seeking directors who have had experience...
  
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• Freelance Social Media Manager / Groovy Art Workshops / London

  19-09-2020 12:56
  Groovy Art Workshops is an educational provider designing and delivering educational creative activities and events to children and young people. Teaching the academic subjects using art through the...
  
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• Gallery Assistant / The Sara Preisler Gallery / West Midlands

  19-09-2020 09:10
  The Sara Preisler Gallery is located within The Custard Factory, Birmingham's revolutionary new arts and media quarter. It is within this space that Sara represents over seventy of the UK's leading...
  
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• 'Frustrations at US policies' behind Melania Trump statue, says artist

  19-09-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Brad Downey says first lady shows contradiction between US’ position on race in 2020The American artist behind a controversial statue of the US First Lady Melania Trump, unveiled this week in bronze in her native Slovenia, has defended the work as a representation of the contradictions of her husband’s presidency.Brad Downey, a conceptual artist from Kentucky based in Berlin, said the statue that replaced an earlier wooden carving destroyed in an arson attack in July, was motivated b
  
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