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Gallery with selection from painters, photographers, sculptors, potters in Hillingdon also some of the public art accessible in Hillingdon.

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PAINTING

Selection of work by painters in Hillingdon

Paintings made by applying oil paint, acrylic, water pigments, coloured inks or other media to canvas, paper, board or panel. Paintings that explore varied representational and formal techniques that express the concept and intention of the artist. They are narrative, landscape, portrait and interpretive.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Selection of work by photographers in Hillingdon

During the 21st century photography has became a very popular art form decorating many walls and galleries. A key distinction is between 'straight photography', the photograph as a thing in itself and not an imitation of something else and manipulated photographic sources. These images display photo literacy.

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SCULPTURE & CERAMICS

Selection of work by sculptors & potters in Hillingdon

Three-dimensional artworks created using hard materials like stone, metal, brick, glass, or wood. Also not so hard materials such as clay, fabric, plastics, and almost anything usable. Could include sound, text and light or found objects. Carved, assembled, kiln fired, moulded, pressed or cast.

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PUBLIC ART

Selection of work seen in Hillingdon

These are not only a record or a monument, they are a pillar, a support, helping us prevail and improve. They can help us care more for the conditions we live in, and some claim they contribute to the alleviation of social stresses. There is certainly no doubt that the physical conditions and built environment surrounding us has a profound effect on states of mind (if not the condition of ones soul)

Most of us aspire to that seldom achieved inner peace and sense of balance. It would be foolish to claim that the arts can provide this but it is even more foolish to deny the positive, if hard to define, benefits of public art.

Sometimes the effort and promise of public art falls on fallow ground but mostly they grow to form a part of the cultural background to communal life.

Creating a new visual identity, turning the superficial into the meaningful.

POETRY

Selection of words from writers in Hillingdon

Poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. Some adhere to highly formalized structure like sonnets, others have looser rules about form and rhyme. Some arise from the collision of two cultures or more.

All is possible work, dogs barking, birds singing, stones, flowers, love, envy, hunger, the name of the poet, everything. In any tense, even the imperative of the future passive participle!