{"id":25315,"date":"2006-10-28T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/10\/28\/the-artroom-renegades\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T19:15:00","slug":"the-artroom-renegades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25315","title":{"rendered":"The Artroom renegades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/magdoor.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/magdoor.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This door used to lead into the Abingdon Magistrates Court. The Abingdon Music Centre took over the building after the Court finally closed a few years back.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/magmagare.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/magmagare.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Magistrates sat on a bench among this wood panelling. Behind that wall is a dressing room with secret doors to cloakroom and toilet.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/magdockren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/magdockren.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>At the other end was the dock, which can just about be made out behind pictures and screen. There are also a couple of sparse cells for prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings are part of a four day exhibition &#8211; by Abingdon Artists &#8211; but it is an exhibition with a difference. The Guildhall is already booked, and so most of the artists have set up their paintings in St Nicholas Church. But a group of five have set up their own exhibition called &#8220;The Artroom Renegades.&#8221; The portraits above are by one of them: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080207055759\/http:\/\/www.bignold-portraits.com:80\/\">Bruce Bignold.<\/a> The man with the blue shirt painted in the style of Van Gogh, is Lord Mustard, a well known Oxford busker.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/magpics.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/magpics.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>These four pictures are by another renegade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carabus.demon.co.uk\/\">John Stephen.<\/a> The other renegades are Josie Chappelle, Judith Payne, and Marjorie Stephen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This door used to lead into the Abingdon Magistrates Court. The Abingdon Music Centre took over the building after the Court finally closed a few years back.The Magistrates sat on a bench among this wood panelling. Behind that wall is a dressing room with secret doors to cloakroom and toilet.At the other end was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}