News
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Riverside Walkway Revitalised and the power of local funding
31st January, 2025Celebrating the funding support from the Sid Vale Association Keith Owen Fund and others for this creative riverside project. Without the investment from all the funders, the project would not have been possible. It shows what can be done with so much support from many quarters to improve very special areas in Sidmouth for the benefit of all.
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Art at the heart of our town
15th November, 2024Cllr Chris Lockyear, Chair of Sidmouth Town Council, pays tribute to Sidmouth School of Art "doing a huge amount to enhance the cultural life of our town," in his weekly column in the Sidmouth Herald.
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Award Winning Riverside Walkway!
23rd October, 2024We are delighted to have been invited to the Sidmouth In Bloom Awards Ceremony and to have won the Sheila Pollentine Award for Art in the Landscape - a key feature in our Riverside Walkway Revitalised project.
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An Unexpected Journey
15th October, 2024"The Inquirer" voice of Unitarians and Free Church features an article by Gavin Howell, exploring emergent ways of working - through The Peace Garden Mural Project - a community building project where nurturing healthy relationships, openness, trust and curiosity was at the heart of our art project.
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Sidmouth Festival of Flags
17th July, 2024Read all about the Festival of Flags in the Sidmouth Herald and Visit Sidmouth
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JJ Waller - photographer in residence
17th July, 2024Read here for the Sidmouth Herald coverage of JJ Waller's Sidmouth project in association with the Folk Festival
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Flying the Flags for Sidmouth
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Wallspace is home to new tranquil artwork
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"A Quirky Initiative" One Day Museum
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New Sidmouth Wallspace billboard - Sidmouth Beauty Spots
9th April, 2024Sidmouth Beauty Spots by David Bellingham, is a new artwork for Sidmouth - a refreshment of the traditional beauty spots postcard popular between the first and second world wars, united with the black spots that were once drawn on women's faces to draw attention.
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A Quirky Initiative; One Day Museum
9th April, 2024Sidmouth Herald shares the news about Artist David Bellingham leading a series of workshops where people bring their items to create a new body of work for The One Day Museum at Kennaway House - 13th April 2024
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Sidmouth Winter Lights Festival art exhibit sends SOS messages
7th March, 2024Environmentally focused art installation gives voice to community concerns about sewage, plastics and other rubbish which is harming our seas.
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Celebrating Volunteers Exhibition
6th December, 2023The original artworks are exhibited at the Old Unitarian Meeting House, Sidmouth, 9-12 Dec, 11am to 4pm.
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OnDesign podcast feat. David Shrigley
9th November, 2023Listen to David talking about his creative journey and role in Sidmouth School of Art
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A Sidmouth Map featured in Pressing Matters Magazine Issue 24
18th October, 2023We are delighted to have Emma Molony's screen printed billboard artwork, created for Sidmouth Wallspace and digitalised by Sam Eyre, featured in this beautifully packaged magazine for printmakers. Emma's work was on display earlier this summer, pictured here with SSA's Trustee/Co-Founder Artist David Shrigley.
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Tis the season for Sidmouth Fungi
12th October, 2023Read about our latest Wallspace in this Sidmouth Herald news article.
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Our town featured in BBC article
18th July, 2023The Wallspace 'Our Town' which was displayed in Sidmouth during April and May was featured in a recent BBC 'In Pictures' article. Chris Powell kindly submitted the photograph of the billboard which joined a global gallery of 'my hometown' pictures.
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A Sidmouth Map
6th July, 2023Sidmouth Herald article about our Wallspace artwork (on display 9 June to 4 August) and the community research that led to its creation.
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SMArt project 'Riverside Walkway Revitalised' covered in Sidmouth Herald
6th May, 2023Our 'Riverside Walkway Revitalised' project benefited from some media coverage in the Sidmouth Herald recently.
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'Our Town' Wallspace on Sidmouth Nub News
28th March, 2023One Wallspace made by 60 people of all ages and 234 separate artworks
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Post-lockdown wallspace artwork
9th August, 2022Our latest wallspace piece: Sarah Hall's 'A Sense Of Place'
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Media coverage of Steve McCracken's 'Kraken' wallspace
11th July, 2022Steve's 'Nature Overcomes/Kelp Our Oceans...' billboard artwork gets a write up in The Sidmouth Herald
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Trees In Art: a new wallspace artwork
18th April, 2022The Sidmouth Herald and Sidmouth Nub News cover the launch of our new wallspace artwork, 'Trees In Art'.
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David Shrigley's 'Another Sidmouth' wallspace
10th March, 2022Artist David Shrigley OBE, who created the image, said: “Our Sidmouth is not the only Sidmouth. There is another Sidmouth in Tasmania, Australia. This other Sidmouth is rather smaller than ours; just a truck-stop and not much else.”
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Sidmouth School of art featured in Sidmouth Herald
11th November, 2021Philippa Davies from The Sidmouth Herald has written an article covering the launch of our website and ongoing wallspace project.