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A woman wearing a hi-vis jacket leans against a bollard on the pavement in a town centre.

Mini murals created to celebrate county's folklore

Artists paint designs on bollards, phone cabinets and street furniture to brighten up Shrewsbury.

A large room with artwork in it including a black, twisted sculpture and several paintings on the walls.

Gallery calls for artworks for open exhibition

The annual exhibition is a highlight of Hull's art scene and attracts thousands of people.

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An aerial shot of Oriel y Parc, St Davids. The building is in a crescent shape, with a large curved grey roof and pillars running around its entrance. It faces into a rounded courtyard with a patch of grass and large rocks in the middle.

Publicly funded gallery 'turning its back on art'

A gallery designed to display the work of Graham Sutherland is accused of turning its back on art.

Mandy Smith needle-felting a model of an animal. She is sitting at a table with her arm on the table and holding a crafting needle to sculpt the wool. She is wearing glasses and a jumper and has her head tilted concentrating as she looks at her work.

Needle felter shows work in hobby exhibition

Mandy Smith, from Tipton, makes wool models of animals and figures in different settings.

A blue shuttle bus outside a large building. There are passengers standing around the bus.

Art charity 'delighted' as 25-year lease granted

The Charleston Trust's pop-up cultural centre, Charleston in Lewes, was launched in 2023.

The image shows a number of the artworks in the Bristol exhibition by Jessica Ashman. One shows a woman kneeling amongs some plants with the suns setting behind her. The second, an image of a woman entwined with vegetation, with images of what look like seeds with humans inside, and the third is of a person in a tree and another kneeling on the ground beneath.

Art exhibition aims to address 'ignored histories'

Jessica Ashman says she wants people to rethink how some artefacts were gathered in the Caribbean.

Sara Cox smiles at the camera. She is wearing a thick blue coat and brown wooly hat with a sheep's face designed on it. She has blue eyes and long greing hair flicking out from beneath her hat. Behind her are trees, a river and a small waterfall

How a scientist hopes her art will help save birds

After inclusion in a major exhibition, scientist Sara Cox shares the message behind her bird art.

Mr Wilsher-Mills sits in a powered wheelchair underneath a giant blow up colourful sculpture of what appears from the camera angle to be a person lying down with their feet on the floor and knees bent.

Artist's exhibition shortlisted for global award

Jason Wilsher-Mills' work was shown at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull.

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Elizabeth, a young girl with short dark hair, a pink headband and in a floral dress, screams with excitement as bubbles float around her head.

Display celebrates children with Down's syndrome

Photographer Debbie Todd is launching an exhibition of her work meeting "extraordinary" children.