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Having your creative work selected by the national body for the crafts, The Crafts Council, is a real achievement. Five...
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Ahead of a new monthly column for The Bristol Magazine, we get to know expert curator Chris Yeo – specialist...
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Set up in 1961 as a bookshop on Clifton Triangle, Arnolfini has grown from humble roots to become a pioneer of interdisciplinary contemporary arts, with an ambitious and eclectic programme of visual art, performance, dance, film and music. As the arts centre celebrates its 60th anniversary, Melissa Blease asks for...
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A spoken word and visual art collaboration is bringing big ocean energy back to the SS Great Britain to convey the...
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Expert opinion from Chris Yeo, valuer at Clevedon Salerooms, curator of the Ken Stradling Collection in Bristol and expert on...
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Experimental Bristol-born documentary photographer Stephen Gill reflects on an enriching journey of learning, creating, dismantling and ending up back where it all started, ahead of his home-city retrospective – and how photography saved him Stephen Gill has built his photographic career upon an ethos of conceptual experimentation. Eschewing a signature...
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As the North Bristol Art Trail prepares to enjoy another successful weekend celebrating local talent on 27 November, its founding...
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As the Royal West of England Academy – Bristol’s oldest art gallery – prepares to reopen its doors after many...
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As Bristol celebrates the launch of the UK’s first Aboriginal-owned gallery this month, we speak to founder Jasmine Coe all about the highly anticipated Coe Gallery… This month, Bristol will welcome the UK’s first Australian Aboriginal-owned gallery dedicated to supporting emerging Australian Indigenous artists. Gallery founder and curator Jasmine Coe...
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As Bristol’s beloved Rainmaker Gallery – the only dedicated contemporary Native American art gallery in Europe – prepares to open...
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Art collector and dealer Saira Kalimuddin shares her tips on how to appreciate Modernist art… As a collector and dealer...
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As Bristol-based sculptor Veronica Ryan wins Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize, in recognition of her major exhibition at Spike Island, we take a closer look at her life’s work… Sculptor Veronica Ryan – who splits her time between Bristol, where she has a home in Spike Island,...