Red Mud Arts

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	<title>Red Mud Arts</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Index</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:21:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>There Is Only Ever Now</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:43:04 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>There Is Only Ever Now
Exhibition in Plymouth organised by Red Mud Arts’ Critique Group who meet 7-9pm every second Tuesday of the month in North Tawton. Email ruth.helen.smith@outlook.com if you’d like to come along.


Baraka Ali - Emma Allan - Hagar Basis - Warren Clayburn
Jordan Eastwood - Alon Gershtein - Tom Orr - PJEJ - Gemma Quickenden
Sheila Riley - Shelley Saxon - Ruth Helen Smith - Jules Smith

Manor Street Galleries, 15th - 26th October
Exhibition Opening, 6-8pm Thursday 15th October
Collaborative Drawing, 11-6pm Saturday 17th October
Closing Event, 6-8pm 26th October

There is Only Ever Now - Well of course there is the future, but that is rushing towards us and we see it only when it reaches us, in the present. And yes, there is the past but knowing that, as it streaks away from us, is far from reliable.

So perhaps it is that to know the world and all that is in it we must know what is with us ...right now... in the present. And this we have tried to do in this exhibition with our art. But to create it – to communicate it – is to need someone to receive it, to realise it, to interact with it, completing the process.

So we warmly invite you, the beholder, to join with us in the making of this art, to consider it, to interpret and to experience it for yourself and to talk with us, for art is but a joint enterprise, here in the ‘now’.

- Dr Peter Brickley, 2026

This exhibition is organised by the Red Mud Arts artists’ critique group which meets monthly at Ruth Smith Gallery in North Tawton. We have chosen to present each artist individually for this exhibition to make more clear each person’s own response to the title.
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		<title>Critique Groups</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 14:47:01 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Critique Groups

7-9pm every second Tuesday of the month in North Tawton.


A monthly group for visual artists with established practices to share ideas, encouragement and current work. This will be focused on really getting into each others practices
in order to offer considered, informed and kind critique. If you’re an artist
who wants to try out new ideas on a friendly audience, or someone who really
wants to move their work on by having a good long look at it with others, then
this is for you!


Tea/coffee/snacks provided, or BYO alcohol.
 
If you’d like to come along, email ruth.helen.smith@outlook.com.
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		<title>Open Mic Nights</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Open Mic Nights


NEW LOCATION-&#38;nbsp;

The White Hart, Fore Street, North Tawton
7.30pm every second Wednesday of the month.


Sign-ups from 7pm.
The Open Mic Nights at The White Hart, North Tawton are a friendly environment for performing all kinds of material. All genres/instruments welcome! Come and play or sit back and enjoy the fantastic talent these events attract. Sign-ups from 7pm, music from 7.30.
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		<title>Life Drawing</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Life Drawing

7-9pm every last Tuesday of the month at North Tawton Community Centre.
A great way for visual artists to gather and draw. We meet every last Tuesay of the month for life drawing, 7-9pm at the Community Centre on Barton Street, North Tawton, just sharing the cost of model and room hire (currently at £30 for 5 sessions).
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		<title>Creative Kin</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:45:24 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Creative Kin

Drawing with others monthly on a Monday morning.
Hosted by artist Emmeline Webb


Email Emmeline if you’d like to come at&#38;nbsp;hello@emmelinewebb.com


Local artist and designer Emmeline Webb&#38;nbsp;is now offering a&#38;nbsp;free monthly drawing session.


Start your week the right way and enjoy some still life drawing&#38;nbsp;and a cuppa in a relaxed, creative atmosphere.


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		<title>Artist Gatherings</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:21:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Artist Gatherings

A great way to meet fellow creatives from every discipline.
SAVE THE DATE- Next gathering
Saturday 6th September 2025, Taw Valley Brewery, North Tawton


YOU ARE INVITED to our next Art Gathering on Saturday 6th
September at Taw Valley Brewery, where we’ll be getting together to have fun
and celebrate what Red Mud Arts has been up to this year! From 3pm, local paint
makers from Art Scribe will be leading a communal drawing activity involving
mud, sticks and an infamous massive piece of fabric that keeps coming in handy.
At 4.30 we’ll hear a mini low-down on what’s occurring with RMA, and from 5-6
there will be live music featuring some of our Open Mic Night regulars.


It would be wonderful to see you! Please do come and
join in with the creative buzz!

Sometimes working as an artist can be isolating and often it’s
a job with no colleages, so this is a chance to meet up with people in the same
boat, to share the highs and lows and reflect on how the month has gone. It
would be amazing to see you there!

Our quarterly artist gatherings are another great way to meet other creatives from all disciplines. They have been a catalyst for several new artistic endeavours, collaborations and friendships.


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		<title>The Art Pod</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:26:01 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>The Art Pod


In association with Ruth Smith Gallery and Red Mud Arts, The Art Pod presents interviews led by artist Ruth Helen Smith with a diverse range of artists who have exhibitions or are artists in residence at the gallery in North Tawton.Supported by Durant Trust and generously produced by Clear Water Studios.&#38;nbsp;


The Art Pod with Ruth Helen Smith, in association with Red Mud Arts and the Ruth Smith Gallery. Generously produced by Clearwater Studios and supported by the Durant Trust.

We have been recording interviews and talks with artists and we are so excited to share them with you! They will be available here, and on the Red Mud Arts website, as well as on our Youtube Channel and other audio streaming sites. Watch this space!!

If you have an idea for an interesting conversation you would like to share, get in touch with me at ruth@ruthsmithgallery.co.uk to discuss more.


Hear the episodes on our Youtube Channel or on SoundCloud via the icons below

1. Sam Godfrey
2. Anthony Richard Martin
3.&#38;nbsp;Bethenie Carriaga4. Matthew Jones5. Damon Kowarsky

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		<title>Smocked Building Project</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:37:29 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Smocked Building Project
Installation: 16th January - 15th February 2026
Workshops: 
2pm-4pm Sunday 11th January
&#38;amp;
 2pm-4pm Saturday 17th January.North Tawton Community Centre, EX20 2HN
£15 per session.

Smocking Workshops- BOOK HERE

A smocked art installation covering Ruth Smith Gallery, a film piece with local archival images, and smocking workshops.Installation and workshops by New York based artist Annie Coggan. Film in collaboration with Exeter/Berlin artist Sam Godfrey.


We're very excited to be pioneering the first Smocked Building Project by New York based artist, Annie Coggan, who will be covering the facade of Ruth Smith Gallery with an enormous site-specific textile installation using smocked hessian.


Smocking involves pinching together fabric in patterns to create a dense almost padded textile. Its roots lie in farming work wear as it was highly durable, but it began to be used in finer clothes due to its connotations to the ‘rural idyll’.

Annie's practice incorporates interiors and architecture to explore our relationship to space through materials. By working with this very sculptural and traditional technique she connects people to place and heritage through haptic experience. The installation at Ruth Smith Gallery will use the honeycomb technique associated with the rural English smocked frock, whilst the hessian it will be made from nods to its traditional use covering buildings to regulate the drying times of lime render. Through this installation, which acts as a type of inside/outside upholstery, she pushes a traditional building material and sewing technique to an extreme to play with ideas of decoration and functionality.

Along with smocking a North Tawton building, Annie is teaching a series of smocking workshops&#38;nbsp; has collaborated with Berlin/Exeter artist Sam Godfrey to research images depicting the history of smocking and its contemporary uses. These will be shown during the talk at the workshops and in future collaborations in connection with the project (stay tuned!). On Sunday 11th January Annie will teach the honeycomb stitch that Ishe is working with to Smock the Building and on Saturday 17th January, Annie will teach the bird beak stitch.


Smocking Workshops- BOOK HERE
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Bird Beak Stitch - Annie Coggan

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Corn Harvesting at Rill, Buckfastleigh, c. 1911, Devon Rural Archives.
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Annie Coggan, Silkscreen Edition LITTLE SMOCKED BUILDINGS, Edition 35, Printed by Kingsland Editions
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		<title>Spoken Word Evenings</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Lend Me Your Ears


Spoken
Word and Poetry Evenings
 7pm 17th July 2025, 

The Bookery, Crediton.
 

Tickets
available at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/crediton/the-bookery/lend-me-your-ears/2025-07-17/19:00/t-eaogxqd.


If you’d like to share some original writing, email Arran R. Hawkins at lend.me.your.ears.2023@gmail.com.


Next Lend Me Your Ears - 7pm 17th July 2025, The Bookery, Crediton.

Drawing on the incredible talent locally, and bringing in writers from further afield, the Spoken Word Evenings are perfect for writers to get together and share their work to an attentive and friendly audience.
 Tickets
available at:&#38;nbsp;www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/crediton/the-bookery/lend-me-your-ears/2025-07-17/19:00/t-eaogxqd.
Open mic spots available, 


so if you have new original writing you would like to share, get in
touch with Arran R Hawkins at
lend.me.your.ears.2023@gmail.com to sign up.
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