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An art commune is a communal living situation colony where collective art is produced as a function of the group's activities. Contemporary art communes are scattered around the world, yet frequently aloof to widespread attention due to displeasure or discomfort with mainstream society.
The Staithes group or Staithes School was an art colony of 19th-century painters based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. [ 1 ] Inspired by French Impressionists such as Monet , Cézanne and Renoir , the group of about 25 artists worked together in plein air , in oil or watercolour .
In a 1955 analysis of the list, David Beers Quinn determined "therefore, eighty-five men, less one dead (George Howe) and two returned (John White and Simon Fernandes), seventeen women and eleven children, making 113 brought from England and 110 left by White, plus two children born on Roanoke Island and two Indians, the total left behind being ...
Lady Jane Grey (de facto 10 July 1553 – 19 July 1553) ("the nine days queen"), beheaded 1554, aged 16 King John (reigned 1199–1216) Mary I (reigned 1553–1558), Roman Catholic queen
The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. [1] The town attracted many of the country’s leading artists such as E A Hornel, William Mouncey, William Stewart MacGeorge, Charles Oppenheimer, Jessie M King, E A Taylor and S J Peploe.
Born in Plymouth 18 January 1942 Chris Dawson: 1952 Alive Businessman and founder of the retail chain The Range Born in Plymouth 15 February 1952 Giles Tremlett: 1962 Alive Journalist/Author: Born in Plymouth, Giles Tremlett is a historian, author and journalist known for his publications regarding Spain. Mark Holden 21 September 1962 (age 62)
John Chambers, artist; Sheila Graber, animator, born South Shields, [1] made an outstanding animation about the river Tyne. [2]James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet [3]; Tish Murtha, documentary photographer born in South Shields, best known for her work documenting marginalised communities, social realism and working class life in Newcastle upon Tyne and The North East England.
This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the Borough of Woking in England, who have a Wikipedia page. Woking is a town and borough in Surrey , around 23 mi (37 km) southwest of central London.