Peter Bright – June – July 2011 Exhibition: 150 Building, West Buckland School.
Images of exhibition – click links at the bottom of the page for more.
I will mail you a postcard of an image that was exhibited recently in an exhibition of mine. I have always loved the idea of Mail Art – the forerunner of the Internet!
Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. The term networking is often used to describe Mail Art activities, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.
Mail art. (2011, June 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:11, June 10, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail_art&oldid=432628954
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‘BOLD and arresting artwork will catch the eye at West Buckland School this month. The striking exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings is by Woolacombe artist, Peter Bright.
In it, Peter revisits images and ideas from his past and re-execute them in print and paint.
The picture of the astronaut inspired the paintings on canvas, pictured left, on the theme of What Happened To The Space Age?’ Read more…