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Well-connected

Hampstead-based-artist Ronnie Shahmoon was the first to feature on BBC2’s series Show Me The Monet: the BBC’s answer to Dragon’s Den but for artists. Hosted by BBC presenter Chris Hollins and judged by three of the world’s toughest art critics, the show has proved increasingly popular up and down the country. An interesting first candidate, Ronnie Shahmoon from London kick-started the show with a contemporary twist: his large artwork featuring plugs and switches may look banal on face-value, but it actually holds a pretty significant meaning. In 1999, at the age of...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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How Do You Do, Brother Crow?

English Country-Folk Concert Review I wanted to share with my readers a touch of English Country-Folk music from Weardale in Northern England, just an hour south of Scotland and officially anArea Of Outstanding Natural Beauty http://www.aonb.org.uk/. It is a popular destination amongst foreign visitors for its beautiful scenery and proud history. The sounds produced in this concert were very reflective of the people, roots and stories of this area. This dexterous storytelling-folk duo consists of talented songwriter Andrew Davison on vocals, who alternates between the cutaway semi-acoustic guitar and a ten-string...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, World Music | , , , | 0 Comments
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From one Canvas to Another

Published as part of the BBC’s Show Me The Monet series on BBC 2 Between 4 and 5 million people in Britain alone immerse themselves in some kind of art, such as photography, painting and sculpture, studies have shown. It is no surprise, then, that BBC2’s Show Me The Monet show starring Charlotte Mullins, David Lee and Roy Bolton three of the world’s toughest art critics, had millions of viewers glued to their TV-sets over the past two weeks of the show’s debut. It strikes me that too many shows have...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Put yourself in my shoes

Published as part of the BBC series Show Me The Monet 2011 Mother-of-three Belinda Durrant from Stroud in Gloucestershire, England took the plunge into the art world when she left her career as a research-technician to go to Art College in 2004. Her sculpture Little Lead Shoes Age 3 made it onto the BBC 2’s Show Me The Monet show, a show produced in a similar style to the channel’s entrepreneurial show Dragon’s Den, but for artists. The tiny, helplessly-posed hand-made shoes Belinda brought to the show’s Hanging Committee instantly struck the judges as having...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | , , , , | 0 Comments
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Art is Music to the Soul

Published 16 May, 2011 at Liverpool.com and for the BBC’s Show Me The Monet coverage Sound Artist Ashwan doing what he loves    Barcelona-based artist Ashwan made it to the final cut on BBC 2’s fortnight-long series of Show Me The Monet, which launched on Monday and is proving increasingly popular up and down the country. Facing the Hanging Committee, Ashwan was the first contestant in the series to receive yes-votes from all three judges. His piece, “Return Of The Life” was valued at £2900 I am catching up...

11 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Welcome to my cave…

Welcome to The Culture Cave. This is my test post – it should be in the middle of the circles – let’s hope so ! Mmmm, cave bacon :o)

28 July 2011 | Culture Cave | 1 Comment
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