The Academicians' annual exhibition opened on the 27th May in the Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter, with an address given by Alan Fynn, Chair of Trustees, in which he paid tribute to the work of the Trustees and Academicians over the past fourteen years. The occasion featured the launch of the Academy's own new publication 'South West Academy: Art, People, Place'.

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Friday evening saw the Society's opening of the Spring Exhibition by Tate St Ives Artist-In-Residence Linder Sterling. More than five-hundred were in attendance to hear her warm references to Barbera Hepworth, a founder-member of the PSA, and how her research is informing this central part of her residency.

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Since the invitation to show as an associate in the Christmas Exhibition 2013, I have been offered full member status by the Society's governing  committee. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to exhibit again with this historically significant group after what has been a gap of nearly five decades.

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Following a break of nearly three years the Society has once again secured the opportunity to stage an exhibition in the prestigious North Gallery of the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, probably largest municipal gallery in the south west.

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One of the leading universities of the Russell Group, the University of Sheffield, has procured three paintings to add to its Heritage Collections. These works have been taken into an already extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, glassware and ceramics, amongst a much wider collection of artefact of scientific and scholarly significance amassed over the past one hundred or more years.

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