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Artyfacts is an online art and cultural bi-monthly journal for the London area. Our purpose is to inform its readers of non-mainstream art and cultural events such as exhibitions and independent picture-house movies, and to discover new artists whose output is ‘off the beaten track’.

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Current Exhibitions

Double Portrait: Ida Barbarigo and Zoran Music The intertwined artistic lives of husband and wife painters Zoran Music and Ida Barbarigo are explored in this exhibition, comprising some twenty-five works, as well as photographs and ephemera at the Estorick Collection..
Nehrain Khalifa

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape We are made aware of the interconnectedness of life, of cause and effect, the microcosm and the macrocosm. This theme of connectedness runs throughout the exhibition, a kind of poetry binding its various parts together.
Mary Phelan

Magnus Opus is the official blog for Scottish playwrite Joan Ure (Betty Clark). Betty is featured in the British Dictionary of National Biography and in most of the reference books on modern Scottish Literature.

This volume of letters that will be on sale from September 2011 reproduces a revealing selection of the correspondence of pioneering Scottish poet-playwright Joan Ure (1918-1978) with friend and fellow writer John Cairns.

The letters, archived and compiled by John, span the period from 1963 to 1971, a time when her innovative contribution to late twentieth century Scottish Theatre was beginning to make its mark.

Writing both as her literary self and more personally under her real name Betty Clark, she sends John a fascinating record of her emotive literary and personal relationships, preoccupations, philosophies, and commentary on her creative output. They also form a highly readable narrative of an intense and engrossing relationship between two writers in 1960s Britain .

By her own admission, Ure’s letters are very much part of her oeuvre as a writer, and the poems and short pieces penned within them (a number of which were subsequently published) add to their value for scholars, theatre professionals and readers alike. This edition includes scans of Ure’s original letters and additional notes and commentary by co-author and archivist John Cairns.

Watteau: The Drawings This selection of eighty-eight of the artist’s drawings is, to say the least, astonishing; in the variety of his subject matter, and his mastery of the craft.
Mary Phelan

Watercolour Open until August 21, this exhibition is a vehicle for not alone the watercolours of the usual suspects; Turner, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and so on, but many, many more artists from all ages, with shocks and surprises at every turn.
Mary Phelan

Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings And Watercolours Drawings and sketches are the artists’ equivalent of the writers’ notes, and the musician tinkling on the piano keys. Small works are less likely to have survived the ravages of time, therefore are paradoxically more precious than the canvases that change hands for exorbitant sums of money...
Mary Phelan

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