9:00am Tuesday 17th August 2010
THE fifth annual Palace Art-fest opens on August 22 with a private viewing at the Bishop’s Palace.
This year sees 47 artists and sculptors, almost half of whom have not previously exhibited at the Art-fest, exhibiting a wide variety of work.
Among the members of the panel responsible for the selection of work in the exhibition were artists Sue Locke and Geoffrey Vaughan, art teacher Colin Wilkes from Hereford Cathedral School and Sandy Elliot, formerly of Aylestone School.
“Having a range of people on the panel has ensured a wide range of work in a variety of styles, media and subject,” says Art-fest chairman, Trevor Swindells.
“The exhibition will be the same size as last year’s but ticket sales for the private view indicate that there will be many more visitors to the Art-fest this year.”
The now-annual event grew out of Hereford’s Three Choirs Festival arts exhibition, originally a small-scale event held every three years in the Shire Hall when Hereford hosted the festival, and it proved such a success in its inaugural year, 2007, that it is now a keenly anticipated event on the Herefordshire calendar.
That early expansion of the exhibition was helped by an Awards for All lottery grant which was used to help promote the festival and install professional lighting.
Tickets for the Palace Art-fest private view, priced £10, are available from Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust, 5 College Cloisters, Hereford HR1 2NG. All proceeds are in aid of the Friends of Hereford Three Choirs Festival and the Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust.
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