Creative Industry Magazine Cheltenham | Creative Boom Cheltenham

Cheltenham has some hidden gems. StuffedNonsense craft den, Badlands record shop and the Emmaus charity shop spring immediately to mind. There's plenty more though. One of the best things about writing for Creative Boom...

As part of our ongoing mission to investigate anything A Bit Different that happens in Cheltenham and drop our findings at your feet, on Saturday night Creative Boom Cheltenham embarked on its scariest mission yet...

Are you looking for somewhere in Cheltenham to buy amazing handcrafted items? Well look no further, StuffedNonsense is waiting with open doors to fufill all your crafty fantasies. Bringing handmade to the highstreet, this fabulous little shop is above Proud Lion on Albion street.
Run by 2 crafty types, Bex and El, they spend their days [...]

Stumbled today across http://www.faysstudio.com/ Check it out if you're looking for a card to send, for a birthday or any other occasion. Fay lives in Gloucestershire after graduating from The Arts Institute in Bournemouth with a BA Honours degree in illustration. Her work uses a mixture of acrylics, collage, pen, sewing and photoshop and is basically [...]

Stephen Allen is a freelance art director, designer and illustrator. His studio, One Point Oh, is based in the gorgeous village of Eastleach - one of the places that truly epitomises Cotswoldyness (see what I did with the making up of a word there...)
His client list is impressive, and with work for the likes of [...]

As promised, here's our interview with illustrator and Gloucestershire Uni graduate Jacob Sharpe. His work is currently on display at the British library as part of their Beowulf exhibition, and he was nice enough to take some time to tell Creative Boom Cheltenham a bit more about the legend and his own work....
Hi Jacob! Perhaps [...]

Jake Sharpe, an illustration graduate from the University of Gloucestershire has been chosen to take part in a new exhibition about the medieval poem Beowulf.
His work was spotted at his degree show and will now be on display in the British Library until the end of January.
Keep your eye on CBC later this week for [...]

Fear of Butterflies is an art collective based in Cheltenham. I only found out about them yesterday, but if you go to their blog you'll see the things they make are very pretty. They also organise things, like nights and exhibitions, and generally do lots of things that CBC thinks is really awesome.
One of these [...]

So apparently there was a Chapman Brothers exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. And I missed it! Gah! If anyone else went and you'd like to write a review please get in touch.
That'll teach me for not keeping an eye on things. Bad CBC.
(Image from the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum website - keep [...]

Have you ever been to the Nature in Art museum in Twigworth? It's only about half an hour away (on t'other side of Gloucester, on the way to the Forest, although there's a proper map on the website if you're after some real directions) and was apparently the world's very first museum dedicated to "fine, [...]