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Solarference present Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Exeter Phoenix
Solarference are a duo, Nick Janaway and Sarah Owen, who make electronic music which uses traditional folk song as its familiar source and emotional anchor. The resulting hybrid, which the name...
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Pauline Boty at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The exhibition Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman is currently on show at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, a component of WAVE, the catchily compressed and conflated collective name for the Museums,...
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Under the Skin
WARNING: Plot Details RevealedUnder the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is a film which seems almost deliberately designed to divide audiences. This is due partly to its cool, clinical cruelty, and...
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The World of The Double
Richard Ayoade’s film The Double draws on a long tradition of stories which confront the protagonist with a shadow self which threatens to usurp, undermine or derail his or her life. These include...
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Soft Estate at the Spacex Gallery
Artist and academic Edward Chell has gathered together a motley band of explorers for the new Spacex Gallery exhibition Soft Estate. They are all set on venturing into the seemingly blank and barren...
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Joan As Policewoman at The Phoenix, Exeter
Joan Wasser’s As Policewoman guise hints at the deliberate donning of a stage costume which can allow her to play diverse parts, trying on different styles. At the Phoenix in Exeter last Friday, she...
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Ruin Lust at the Tate Britain
The first room in the Ruin Lust exhibition at the Tate Britain was sparsely populated with paintings. But each provided a key to themes which would be explored in subsequent rooms. They also gave some...
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Ignite Festival of Theatre 2014
The Ignite Festival in Exeter is an explosion of theatre and performance which takes place across the centre of the city. Exeter’s main theatre has long since been pushed to the borderlands, stranded...
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Devon Folklore Tapes VI: Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor
Devon Folklore Tapes 6 (or DFTVI, to follow the acronymic condensation) is the latest in a series of beautifully presented artefacts which combine visual art, commentary and music, assembling a...
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The Re Interpretation Exhibition at St Olave's Church, Exeter
Six artists occupied St Olave’s church at the to p of Fore Street, Exeter last week for a short residency organised through the auspices of the Methodist Venture X project. St Olaf himself was a far...
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Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor - Devon Folklore Tapes Live at the...
The Devon Folklore Tapes VI release Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor was brought to life in the Phoenix, Exeter last week, not far away from the terrain from which it drew visual, aural and even...
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Ben and Winifred Nicholson: Art and Life 1920-1931 at Ways With Words,...
Jovan Nicholson gave a talk about his grandparents Winifred and Ben Nicholson as part of the Dartington Ways With Words Festival in July this year. He has curated an exhibition of their work, Art and...
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The Spectral Book of Horror
The Spectral Book of Horror is an instantly attractive volume. The cover is graced by a gorgeous painting by Vincent Chong showing two boys and a girl standing against a cracked and peeling wall,...
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The Dragon Griaule Stories by Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shephard’s sequence of linked but discrete stories featuring the Dragon Griaule originated in a Clarion Writer’s Workshop in the early 1980s. Seeking inspiration, Shephard went outside, sat...
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Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs I: Fore Hallowe'en
The latest release from the Folklore Tapes folk (the Devon prefix dropped as they search further afield), Fore Hallowe’en, finds them taking a new direction, recalibrating the co-ordinates. Previous...
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Alan Garner on Televison: The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Keeper
PART THREEThere is a tension in Garner’s work between the intuitive consciousness, sensitive to time, place and feeling, and the rational, empirically ordered mindset, which seeks to make sense of the...
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Stephen Volk's Leytonstone and the Secret Heart of Hitchcock
Stephen Volk’s new novella (novelette? I never did work out the fine distinctions) Leytonstone is a tangential follow up to Whitstable, his acclaimed 2013 book, also published by Spectral Press. He...
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Bloody Homage: The Hammer of Dr Valentine, Terrors of the Théâtre Diabolique...
The golden age of British horror movies continues to exert a fascination over successive generations of fans. The films of the late 50s through to the mid-70s belong to a distinct period of post-war...
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3000 Years with Ottilie
This record, which came into the Oxfam record shop in Exeter yesterday, is a real discovery. Ottilie Patterson was the singer with the Chris Barber Band, belting out good time trad jazz. But on this...
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Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff - 40 Years of Art Walking
Walk On is a major exhibition loosely themed around the act of wandering and the art it has inspired over the past 5 or so decades. It is distributed around various venues in Plymouth, allowing the...
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