Stormtroopers & Daleks Redeem Themselves by Protecting Swindon’s Artwork & Fundraising.
Following the recent theft of Banksy’s ‘Howling Wolf’ from Peckham, one of the venues in Swindon Open Studios (SOS) has called on a garrison of Stormtroopers and Daleks. Their mission to provide extra protection for the work of 20 artists and craftspeople at the Carriage Works on September 21st.
A family fun day kicks off the opening of the exhibition at 11am. Children are invited to come dressed as their favourite Sci-fi character, in the spirit of a Comicon event*. Apart from paintings, pottery, digital art, photography and jewellery, there’ll be two children’s book authors exhibiting.
Swindon New College will be demonstrating media make-up too, so there’s something for everyone with an interest in the arts.
Taking part
Swindon Open Studios has 130 participants in 56 different venues in and around Swindon this year. The event at Armstrong’s Carriage Works presents a once-only opportunity for artists to exhibit together in this superb space. Immediately afterwards, the historic listed building will undergo a major renovation.
The family fun day with café was the brainchild of Mark and Anna Enright who run Podpadstudios. They jumped at the chance of working with Swindon Borough Council and Create Studios to use the huge Carriage Works space. That’s because they’ve never before been able to exhibit their entire collection of life-size film props under one roof.
*Joining the:
- Podpadstudios Terminator-inspired Robot T-1-FNY
- Steampunk Dalek
- Dr Who’s K9
- Star Wars R2D2 droids
- Animatronic dragons and …
- A life-sized Batmobile …
.. will be Stormtroopers from MKG who will be fund raising for Prospect Hospice, Swindon. All of which goes to show that not all Stormtroopers and Daleks are baddies after all!
Entry is completely FREE to the family fun Day and Swindon Open Studios exhibition which runs for the last two weekends of September.
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Fantastic idea – Something everyone as part of a great day out for Culture Vultures!