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I am at present studying at the Fine Art Dept, New- the art of the past. A permanent stock of eighteenth the exhibition were selected from an entry of over
castle University. I live on £89 a term (about £7 a and nineteenth century English watercolours will be 550 by Elizabeth Frink, Merlyn Evans and Guy Brett.
week or under). My father, who is a maintenance maintained. The gallery will be open until 6 in the The first purchase prize of £1,000 was not awarded,
man in one of the Liverpool dock firms, earns about evenings and until 10 p.m. on Wednesdays. Among the money being divided equally between John F. B.
£26 a week; due to the fact that I have to pay £20 those represented in the opening exhibition were Miles, John Aubrey, Jeffrey Steele, Laurence Whit-
a month for the flat where I live presently in New- Elinor Bellingham-Smith, Elizabeth Frink, Patrick field a ad Ernest Zobole. The second purchase prize of
castle—and also due to the fact that I cannot keep George, Frederick Gore, Josef Herman, 'von Hitchens. £600 was awarded to Terry Setch and the third, of
myself in food, drink, and the basic necessities of life Helen Lessore, L. S. Lowry, John Nash, John Piper £300, to David Saunders. Prizes of £50 were
on £7 a week (and also pay for my materials) I am at and Carel Weight. award ad to two artists under twenty-five, Clive King
present in trouble with my bank, where I am over- and H lary Fell. In the Fine Arts II section for amateur
drawn to the sum of £30. I will have to change my artists prizes were awarded to Gwyther Thomas.
flat this summer and find other accommodation in The Industrial Negative is the title of a one-day Phylip Jones, Hugh Delwyn Richards and Edward
Newcastle. There is not much chance of my getting a syposium for industralists to be held at the Mermaid Thomas Shallis. Prizes were also awarded for crafts,
job here this summer, either. theatre, Puddle Dock, on September 11 under the for architecture, for photography and for arts and
I'm not going to preach at the end of this letter (I auspices of the Artist Placement Group. The sym- crafts from Welsh schools.
will be very happy if it's printed anyway) : the facts posium will be opened by the Lord Mayor and has
speak for themselves. I'd just like to say that a lot has the blessing of the Minister of Science and Tech-
been said in public about supporting the arts. How- nology. Guest speakers from various countries will The third Mostra Mercato d'arte contempora-
ever, it's a damn sight better to support living artists be concerned to explore and expose possible func- nea will be held in the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from
who are in straits than to indulge one's necrophile tions and places for the artist in contemporary tech- October 15 to November 15. Twenty-two Italian art
tendencies by buying dead men's artifacts. (By the nological society. APG is concerned to find ways of galleries will be taking part, and invitations have been
way—I'm not a bad painter and draughtsman.) merging 'the unfettered creative ability' of the artist sent to eight of the most important London galleries.
If anyone wants to check the facts stated here, I will with the 'applied productive capability' of industry. Eight Italian galleries of graphic art and fifteen other
be only too glad to meet any enquiries (please write Those interested should get in touch with the Secre- Italian galleries will be represented in two collective
to the address above). I really don't like living in this tary, APG, 22 Portland Road, W.11. exhibitions, of graphic art, and of 'Sources of Con-
Micawberish fashion. Can anyone find a solution? temporary Art from Italian Galleries'. It is intended
Yours faithfully, that II works should be labelled with their prices.
B. O'Toole At the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, held The English galleries invited are Gimpel Fils, the
4 Newman Street at Barry in July, a competitive exhibition of con- Redfern, Kasmin, Robert Fraser, the Axiom, Alecto,
Kirkdale temporary Welsh painting and sculpture was held the Grosvenor, the Rowan and the Hanover.
Liverpool 4 under the title 'Wales Now'. The fifty-three works in
The second Cologne Art Fair will be held in the
Kunsthalle from October 15 to 20, organized by the
Association of Progressive German Art Dealers. Each
gallery will have a separate display-booth and will
also present one artist in a special exhibition to be
News held in the Kolnischer Kunstverein. Galleries partici-
pating will be Appel & Fertsch, Block, Brusberg,
Guna ., Muller, Neuendorf, Niepel, Op-Art, Ricke, Der
Spiegel, Springer, Stangl, Thomas, Tobies & Silex,
Van cle Loo, Wilbrand and Zwirner, with Bucholz,
Friedrich, Schmela and Bucherstube am Dem
participating as guests, and with the following galleries
from abroad: Feigen (New York), Ziegler (Zurich),
Ariete (Milan) and Sonnabend (Paris).

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland's fourth The honorary freedom of the Borough of St.
Open Painting Exhibition will be opened on Septem- Ives, Cornwall, is to be conferred on Bernard Leach,
ber 11 by Alan Bowness who, together with Robyn Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth in recognition
Denny and Derek Hill, selected the exhibition and of their international contribution to the arts. To mark
awarded the prizes. Seventy-five works out of the this occasion exhibitions of their works will be held
525 submitted will be on display during September in St. Ives from September 23 to October 5, 1968.
and October in the Northern Ireland Arts Council's An information bureau at High Street, St. Ives, will
spacious new gallery near Belfast City Hall. Total provide advice on accommodation for those intend-
priie money of £2,400 was distributed as follows: ing tc visit the town for this occasion.
first and second prizes (total £1,600) shared between
Harold Cohen, Alan Wood and Michael Wood;
prizes of £100 to Telfer Stokes, Edward Middleditch.
Peter Lloyd Jones, William Culbert, Colin Middleton,
Jeffrey Steele, Howard Hodgkin and Keith Brockle-
hurst.

An exhibition of watercolours by Emil Nolde is
at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art until
September 15, and will be shown subsequently at
the new Hayward Gallery on the South Bank, Lon-
don, and at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

A new gallery, the New Grafton Gallery, opened
on July 25 at 1a Grafton Street, W.1. with an exhibi-
tion of contemporary figurative work. It is intended
that a figurative element shall be present in all works Abu boo boo by Laurence Whitfield, joint 1st
exhibited at the gallery and that exhibitions of work prizewinner at the Royal National Eisteddfod of
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by living artists shall alternate with those devoted to Wales Bern rd Leach