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Party with an 8ft pink panther! Ibiza in the 70s and 80s – in pictures | Art and design

Party with an 8ft pink panther! Ibiza in the 70s and 80s – in pictures | Art and design

The Spanish photographer Oriol Maspons is known for his reportage, portraiture, fashion and advertising work in the 1950s and 60s. But from the late 1960s to the late 1980s he would holiday in Ibiza, where he took pictures for pleasure. His humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era Oriol Maspons’s Ibiza is published by IDEA Source link

Ian ‘H’ Watkins from Steps ‘fell off his chair’ after discovering he was being honoured with 8ft statue in Cowbridge | UK News

Ian ‘H’ Watkins from Steps ‘fell off his chair’ after discovering he was being honoured with 8ft statue in Cowbridge | UK News

Singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins, better known as ‘H from Steps’, is to be honoured with an 8ft statue. The statue of the 47-year-old has been announced by a community group in his hometown of Cowbridge. Funded through private donations and designed by a local artist, it will be erected at the heart of the town, outside The Bear Hotel. The aim is to unveil the statue at Cowbridge Pride in June, an event founded by ‘H’ two years ago. ‘H’ – one-fifth of the Brit award-winning group Steps – also hosts a weekly show on Radio Wales and sits on his local town council. He made history in 2020 as one half of Dancing On Ice‘s first-ever same-sex couple. “When I got the e-mail informing me, I fell off my chair,” Mr Watkins said. “This is one of my proudest moments – not bad for a Welsh lad lots of people think is as daft as a toilet brush. “I love calling Cowbridge my home and I’m very passionate about doing my bit to help …