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Hestercombe Gallery secures funding for the arts

Jem Southam '21 March 2016’. From the work 'a bend in the river’
Jem Southam ’21 March 2016’. From the work ‘a bend in the river’

Hestercombe has been awarded a grant of £69,000 from Arts Council England to continue its gallery and arts programme in 2017. This year, thanks to this grant and funding from Taunton Deane Borough Council, the award-winning heritage attraction, near Taunton in Somerset, will see over 10 artists engaging with the gardens, landscape, archives, buildings and visitors. Full story: Read more

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‘A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills 1909 to 1925’ Works by the Camden Town Group at the Museum of Somerset

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An exhibition of works by the Camden Town Group opens at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton on Saturday 25 March. ‘A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills 1909 to 1925’ captures the beauty of this Somerset and Devon borderland in a period when the First World War was changing English society forever. Full story: Read more