Have you ever wondered what our University invests in? It’s unlikely you have – pretty boring question. The answer, however, is not so boring. Did you know that the university endowment fund is invested in arms, tobacco, and fossil fuels? A group of students across Exeter and Falmouth have been working together as Ethical Exeter to make […]
Elvis Perkins at The Crofters’ Rights, 23/11/15
Elvis Perkins has come a long way from his ostensibly country and rock ‘n’ roll roots. Named after Elvis Presley and sharing a surname with country legend Carl Perkins, the young singer-songwriter used to take music lessons with the bassist from The Knack. Now, taking the stage at The Crofters’ Rights beneath a giant mirrorball […]
Contemporary art on campus: Land-Sea-Self
In a small seminar space in the Queens building, performance artist and director Tess Denman-Cleaver is talking about a much wider sense of place, evoking the receding shore, cold waters, and broad skies of the North Sea. The description of her experience of sea-swimming and island exploration off the coast of Northumberland, which has formed […]
Human taxidermy and the art of nature: RAMM Review
I had gone to the RAMM intending to see Contours into Colour, a retrospective of landscape artist Alan Cotton. A recommendation from a friend and the story of Cotton’s career-shaping encounter in his pyjamas with Marxist art critic John Berger had piqued my interest but, standing in the gallery, his neo-impressionist field scenes and dense […]