Royal portrait artist Dan Llywellyn Hall introduces a new exhibition, Armor Arborum: Trees in Heritage and Protest, exploring our relationship with significant and sometimes contentious trees. There’s also a visit to the David Parr House to see Tadek Beutlich’s Heatwave in the Antarctic, plus a trip to the Affordable Art Fair on Fitzroy Street, … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin visits the Cambridge Arts Theatre where CEO Rachel Tackley gives an update on the theatre’s redevelopment project; we drop in on artist Naomi Tomkyss OBE who is exhibiting at Fitzbillie’s on Kings Parade and Cambridge University’s anthropologist Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi, curator of the Legacies of Windrush in Cambridge Exhibition. … [Read more...]

In Cambridge Arts Roundup, Simon Bertin joins Cambridge University’s Dr Marina Velez Vago on a visit to the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum; the qualities of Ghost stories written by women and performed at the Leper Chapel by Insitu theatre’s Richard Spaul; Jas Chadha goes to Stapleford Granary to visit multidisciplinary artist Harry Cory … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin encounters sculptor Ian Wolter at his new exhibition Perfection: Exploring Perfection in the Human Condition at the Wightman gallery; the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence and art with Fitzwilliam College associate professor Dr Alex Carter; and Dr James Freeman on how people approached the medicinal in medieval times in … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin drops in on poet Ruth Padel at Magdelene College and finds out about her new anthology, Girl. Later, associate professor Majid Danishgar from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University in Japan tells Simon about his exhibition Endless Stories showcasing some of the world's rarest manuscripts at Cambridge University … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin visits Katrina Porteous at Magdalene College who’s new book Rhizodont is shortlisted for the T.S Eliot prize; and we hear the spiritual aspects of sculptural work from Zimbabwe at the Cambridge workshop of sculptor Euwitt Nayanhongo and hear about shaping work in stone as a labour of love. … [Read more...]