{"id":462981,"date":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462981\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:30:08","slug":"edward-bawdens-unseen-snail-art-goes-on-display-in-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462981\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Bawden&#8217;s unseen snail art goes on display in Bedford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Partridge said the exhibition showed Bawden&#8217;s macabre humour, featuring lots of monsters and animals who met sticky ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the book was made &#8220;funny and accessible&#8221; to children, she wanted them to be involved, so invited pupils from Putnoe Primary School in Bedford to take part in workshops run by local artist Philippa McDonald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were the first to see the book and now their [own] inspired work is on display,&#8221; said Partridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The book features seven mythical species of snail, named Domesticks, Animacules, Lovelies, The Giant Tortoise, Big Ben &amp; Little Ben, Aurochs and Heartsease &#8211; whose shell is encrusted with precious stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partridge said the exhibition showed Bawden&#8217;s macabre humour, featuring lots of monsters and animals who met sticky ends.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-462981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}