'Isolated, bereft... yet optimistic'
Mendip Times, November 2019
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Sheptonia Arts Week
John McCarthy at B-Wing
for Somerset Art Weeks
by Gillian Taylor
18 poets on B-Wing,
poetry performance for National Poetry Day, 3rd Oct 2019, organised by B-Wing poet, Rosie Jackson,
video by Gordon McKerrow
B-Wing poet, Rosie Jackson, interviewed
by Allan Trinder for National Poetry Day
on Glastonbury FM, 16.10.19
BBC South West news
B-Wing opened by John McCarthy, 28/9/19
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TV Interview with Ben McGrail
ITV News South West, 27/9/19
Fiona Campbell - B-Wing & Gillian Taylor - Somerset Art Weeks Festival
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Review of B-Wing by Trevor Smith
on a-n, The Artists' Information Company website, 3.10.19
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B-Wing opened by former hostage,
Shepton Mallet Journal, 3.10.19
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Somerset Art Weeks - a special anniversary festival,
interview with B-Wing's co-curator, Fiona Campbell,
textile artist, Rebecca Bruton
and curator & SAW coordinator, Paul Newman
on Frome FM, 15.9.19 and on Somersetcool's website, 24.9.19
L-R Rebecca Bruton, Somersetcool host, Jenna, Paul Newman and Fiona Campbell at Frome FM, 15.9.19.
'B-Wing at Shepton Mallet Prison'
featured in Fine Times Recorder, 31/8/19
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'B-Wing - Contemporary Art Installations
in Shepton Mallet Prison',
blog post on Somerset Art Works website, 22.8.19,
Fiona Campbell, B-Wing co curator and artist
Last autumn I attended SAW’s Prospecting Symposium along with many artists including Luminara Star (a recipient of SAW’s Creative Pathway Bursary ’18). In a group with Kerry Harker we discussed utilising interesting spaces for art exhibitions and events – an alternative to hierarchical white cube art galleries. Since then, a seed has grown and blossomed into ‘B-Wing’, a site-responsive art project in Shepton Mallet Prison, which Luminara and I are co-curating for Somerset Art Weeks Festival, 21 September-6 October.
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Somerset Life, September 2019
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Mendip Times, September 2019
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Radio Shepton, 25.8.19:
interview with Luminara Star and Fiona Campbell, curators
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Fine Times Recorder, August 2019
Contemporary Art at Shepton Mallet Prison
The Martin Evans Show, BBC Radio Bristol, 10.8.19:
interview with Fiona Campbell
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11:48-16:51 & 21:09-26:10
11:48-16:51 & 21:09-26:10