A manifesto of Painting - at Mirror Gallery Plymouth art uni

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Resident Poet - Perter Devonald News and Links take a look....

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Peter Devonald - A superb selection of his poetry and latest news...

Flickering of colours in an enigmatic collage,

stations too busy to pause our journey,

sheep in the fields wave weary hello’s,

people’s lives obliquely whispered…

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MASTER OF LIGHT & DARK - by Michaela Hall

Kusama is a master of much more than light and dark, she’s a master of perception, reflection, pattern and repetition, colour….

Michaela Hall10 March 2025Words and visuals in harmony, women writers, writers, #women, #womensday, Creative writing on visual aestheticsComment

Will Eisner (1917-2005) comic writer, by Mildred Burchett-Vass

The story Hemingway wrote was ‘For sale, baby shoes, never used’, and Eisner has in fact added one more word to this story….

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The present in practice - By Resident art writer Michaela Hall

In our daily lives we are bombarded with the instant – social media and the development of tech and AI means that 99% of things we want to know…

Michaela Hall24 February 2025women writers, writers, Art writers and poetic voices, Artistic expressions in poetry, Creative writing on visual aesthetics, AIComment

Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald - Ephemeral art & Feb News

A masked ball dressed up as an epiphany,

wisdom has a place for you, but not today,

today is ice and snow, ephemeral, transient,

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External v internal – the battle within by art critic Michaela Hall

Both artists explore the power of presentation in their works and how we choose to present the internal or external,…

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Book Review by G,M,E Burchett-Vass- "A Guest in the House' by Emily Carroll

…The stories are nasty, grotesque, and hugely unsettling, everything one could wish for from a horror comic…

Mildred Burchett-Vass6 January 2025women writers, writers, #book reviews, #graphic novel, #gothic text, #emily carroll, #a guest in the house, ghostComment

Externalising the internal - by Peter Devonald our poet in residence

Bodies inscribed with complex hieroglyphics,

every abuse, trauma, ghosts and ghosting,

OUTSIDE THE GALLERY SPACE - BY Michaela Hall

It would seem a crime to explore outsider artists without referencing Banksy,…

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald - "Outsider Art"

The term outsider art was coined in 1972 in the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal as an English equivalent for art brut (French: "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s…

REVIEW OF _ Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart

Family history is invoked through the use of photographs and other memorabilia. Absent fathers provide another point of connection…

book reviewMildred Burchett-Vass4 December 2024#graphic novel, Exploring the canvas of words and art, Art criticism in verse, women writers, writers, Art writers and poetic voices, Creative writing on visual aestheticsComment

Eustace - Review by critic -G M E Burchett-Vass

the ghastliness of his boisterous cousins, his ineffectual uncles, and the unsavoury doctor, who, despite…

Mildred Burchett-Vass8 November 2024Comment

Movement and connections by Michaela Hall , artist and critic

The Playground Project took over the biggest gallery space in the venue …

Michaela Hall8 November 2024Comment

Peter Devonald - Poetry - Kinetic & movement ...

BUT the Future is only dark from the outside.
Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light….

Peter Devonald8 November 2024Comment

SKANDALON - BY JUL MAROH - Review by Mildred Burchett-Vass

Something that has sparked interest in recent years is the presence of the narrator in comics and graphic novels. In Skandalon, Tazane himself...

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PETER DEVONALD - POETRY AND LATEST NEWS

All the lost clauses so full of importance,
all the sleepless and listless nights

unseen by human eyes,
the mithering misery of it all:

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Text in art - The Writings on The Wall - by Michaela Hall

...no matter how they are used, can not be underestimated and that language is a creative tool for us all.

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald Issue 52: Word Art, Slogans and Manifestos

How to explain modern chaos/ confusion and MADNESS of crackers without cheese?
How to keep sane when the world is crazy...

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