Ear, Knows & Throat

ALT Hand-drawn illustrations of various musical instuments on a gradient background. The text “Broadcast + grant opportunities for Devon musicians aged 18–25. Apply now: devon.stream/sessions” and logos for Devonstream and Youth Music are overlaid.

ALT Hand-drawn illustrations of various musical instuments on a gradient background. The text “A new programme featuring new music by Devon artists. Launches 28 July. Upload your music now: devon.stream/discoveries” and logos for Devonstream and Youth Music are overlaid.

ALT A photograph of Exeter Community Centre, an old red brick building with a pavement and road outside. There a brightly coloured flowers growing in hanging baskets outside the building. The entrance to the building is painted white and the door is open. Further along the road beyond the entrance is an old red telephone box. A graphic featuring Art Week Exeters’ ‘awe’ logo in the style of a sticker is placed on the bottom-right of the photo.

ALT Image description: A man and a woman face away from the camera, towards a hedge with bright green leaves. They are cupping her ears, as if to listen closely. Graphics of stickers have been overlaid towards the top of the image, one showing the acronym ‘awe’ (for Art Week Exeter), the other showing the word ’new’. (Image credit: Gem Smith, Take-A-Part.)

ALT An aerial photo the beach at Orcombe Point, Exmouth, Devon, UK. The sea gently laps the beach from the left, to the right there are red cliffs with green vegetation on top. A small number of walkers appear as tiny dots in the picture, casting long shadows in the low sunlight. The Art Week Exeter ‘awe’ logo appears on the graphic of a sticker overlaid on the image. (Image credit: #RedZeppelin via @unsplash.)

ALT A man and a woman face away from the camera, towards a hedge with bright green leaves. They are cupping her ears, as if to listen closely. Graphics of stickers have been overlaid on the bottom-left corner of the image, one showing the acronym ‘AWE’ (for Art Week Exeter), the other showing the word ’new’. (Image credit: Gem Smith, Take-A-Part.)

ALT A photograph of a page from the arts and entertainment section of The Moorlander newspaper (23 December 2021), featuring an article about Devonstream. The headline reads “Listening to the sounds of Devon” and the lead image is a photo of singer-songwriter Amy Hopwood recording her live session for Devonstream at Southernhay House hotel, Exeter, earlier in 2021.

ALT A graphic with white text reading “Alexa, open Devonstream” surrounded by a blue ring (suggestive of the ring of blue lights on an Amazon Echo device), on a dark grey background.

ALT ‘Dartmoor Blues’, a painting of a Dartmoor landscape (oil and mixed-media on canvas, 50 cm × 50 cm), with tors rising against a grey-blue sky, green-brown vegetation in the middle distance and a striking bright blue stream and shadows in the foreground. The style is loose, with sketchy lines, bold brush and palette knife strokes, paint and ink splatters. Text from newsprint on layers below shows through in some places. Jane Cope’s signature is in the bottom-right corner.

ALT ‘Magic Forest’ (acrylic on paper), a brightly coloured abstract painting of waving stripes of colour by Mark Jessett. Produced primarily as a colour study, while exploring organic, natural-feeling forms and subtle compositional shifts. This has been Devonstream’s cover artwork for the last few months of 2021.

ALT A graphic with a white background and black text. A simple stylised illustration of three differently-sized yellow stars sits above the bold headline “join our team”. The caption in smaller text below reads “if you’re eligible for the Kickstart Scheme and you love to listen, we’d love to hear from you”. The UK Government’s Kickstart Scheme logo is at the bottom.

ALT A black and white illustration of the Mayflower ship, with ‘the Blooming Buds of May’ written on an unfurled banner underneath.