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Cultural
Groups
http://www.creativestoke.org.uk
A staggeringly good website for all "creatives" based in North
Staffordshire. Full of information about everything local from web-designers
to photographers to local bands.
You should check it - with our recommendation
http://www.frinkschool.org
The official web site for the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture which
is based in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
http://www.staffsgallery.org.uk
The web site of the Staffordshire Art & Craft Network - a contact
point for artists and craftspeople in the county
Hidden Talents
hopes to re-launch dying crafts and skills across the North-West from all
ages and cultures. You are invited to visit the site and enter details of
your gifts so an online 'portfolio' of the collective secret talents of
the whole region can be created.
Culturegen
Stafford-based site for local artists and creative professionals
to check out news opportunities, projects, and research.
Plus a directory.
www.sbase.org.uk
Check out this artist-led initiative for arts and creative
industries workspace and facilities in Stafford - you can also register
and join the campaign!
COMMERCIAL ART GALLERIES
Blue? at 54 King Street, Newcastle, Staffs. David Warren runs
this gallery showing Contemporary Modern Artworks including Paintings, Pottery
and Glass by around 30 local artists. The works are free to view, and are
all for sale alongside a range of gifts.
Website: www.bluegallery.org.uk
Artists
Society of Staffordshire Artists
 One
of the premier groups of artists in the country with a number of the members
exhibiting widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The society was formed in 1933 and throughout its history the membership
has included many of the foremost artistically talented people in and around
Staffordshire.
Society Contact: harry@faharvey.fsnet.co.uk
Stafford Art Group
A group of over 100 artists, meeting at Littleworth Community Centre,
in Stafford twice a week. The Group has occasional exhibitions in Stafford’s
Shire Hall Gallery, an annual exhibition at the Museum of Cannock Chase,
and two exhibition at the Oddfellows Hall in Stafford. Contacts: Jim Remon
01785 664820; Sue Chatterton (01785 618433)
Broadcast Artists-led
collective - promoting contemporary exhibitions & events within the Staffordshire
area.
See Broadcast's new Artists'
Database & Website
Raju Sinha Stafford-based
photographer who travels the world taking photographs and making films
http://www.pandaemonium.biz
The website for the long-established Beavers Arts community arts
group working out of Newcastle in North Staffs
Jon Braley
the Leek-based artist exhibits all over the country
Tom Allwood
The Lichfield based photographer, Tom Allwood. His exhibition from the Lichfield
Festival is on his website, along with travel photography from Asia and
Europe.
Mark Wood - well known for
his work on the Hartshill Park and Local Nature Reserve project designing
appropriate art features. Now a native of the Staffordshire moorlands.
www.planetvisionphotography.co.uk
Planet Vision Photography was set up to record the work of performing artists
in the Midlands and to document important social issues and the concerns
of local people.
PVP also works with individuals and groups to explore their cultural and
historical identities and to express these through photography.
Jacqueline_Harold
Jackie
Harold, the former Staffordshire University
student, now glass and silver-work designer, has had work exhibited at Design
Front 04
Bill
Beswick Stafford portraitist who had two
recent works in the Potteries 03 Exhibition
Ishrat Sharaf exhibits with the
Cheshire Open
Studios project
Chrysalis Group
Chrysalis is a showcase of some diverse art graduate talents at work in
Stoke on Trent today...
 The
"Accurate" group - eight curators and art lecturers from
Staffordshire - including Amanda Clayton, Will Kemp (see picture right),
David Gleeson, Ian Naylor, Terry Shave, Sarah Tombs, Ian Vines & Neil
Wood.
MUSIC
Phoenix Singers
Choral group based in Leek
CRAFTS
Staffordshire Patchworkers and Quilters Contact: 01785 814845
Stacey Harvey-Brown runs The
Loom Room web-site where she creates, dyes and weaves original textile
art from handwoven silks to contemporary framed pictures and fashion accessories.
The Loom Room also offers residential weaving courses
WRITERS
Patrick Regan
whose series of novels is set in the city of Stump (or, Stoke-on-Trent?
- perhaps?).
... and FURTHER AFIELD
http://www.artsnet.org.uk
Artsnet is a central resource for artists and arts professionals in the
West Midlands.
http://www.artsview.org.uk
A web site which reports on the arts taking place in the West Midlands area.
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