Plymouth Arts Centre

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Plymouth Arts Centre is a centre for contemporary art, independent cinema and creative learning based in the Barbican area of Plymouth, UK.

Founded in 1947 in a Grade 2 listed town house in Looe Street, it was opened by art historian Kenneth Clark.[1]It was one of seven arts centres set up around the country with funds from the newly established Arts Council of Great Britain.[2] The centre comprises gallery spaces, a 61-seater cinema, café and restaurant space and receives over 70,000 visitors a year.[3]

The artist, Beryl Cook had her first exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre in 1975,[4]and Bernard Samuels, then Director of the Plymouth Arts Centre, is credited with discovering her.[5]

Other artists with connections to Plymouth Arts Centre include Patrick Heron, Tracey Emin, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Greenaway, Ralph Steadman, Vong Phaophanit, Richard Deacon, Andy Goldsworthy and Sir Terry Frost.[6]

In 2012, the centre's restaurant The Arthouse won the Best Restaurant Plymouth Award[7] and in 2013, Plymouth Arts Centre took over the running of the restaurant, renamed PAC Food, retaining Sammy Lounds, a Jamie Oliver protégé from 15 Cornwall as chef.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Arts centre's rich canvas | This is Plymouth". thisisplymouth.co.uk. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 16 May 2013. "Sir Kenneth Clark" 
  2. ↑ "Application Office 2013.pdf". pdf.js. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 15 May 2013. "Just seven arts centres" 
  3. ↑ "Navaho Technologies: Digital Signage, Content Creation, Network Security and Managed Network ServicesPlymouth Arts Centre". navaho.co.uk. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 16 May 2013. "over 70,00 visitors every year" 
  4. ↑ "The Official Beryl Cook site - offering Beryl Cook's original paintings, prints, calendars, books, exclusive content, press cutt". berylcook.org. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 15 May 2013. 
  5. ↑ "Plymouth to host major Beryl Cook exhibition". plymouth.ac.uk. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 15 May 2013. "Bernard Samuels,Director of the Plymouth Arts Centre" 
  6. ↑ "BBC - Devon - Arts and Culture - Art for Plymouth's sake". bbc.co.uk. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 16 May 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Food Plymouth Awards". foodplymouth.org. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 15 May 2013. 
  8. ↑ "Cohort 1 graduate Sam Lounds comes up trumps! | Fifteen Cornwall Blog". fifteencornwall.co.uk. 2013 [last update]. Retrieved 15 May 2013. 

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