AN EVERYDAY PARTY - MEGAN CLARK-BAGNALL


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Party: Mon 1 June 2015, 4.30 – 6.30pm
An Everyday Party is a surprise party (shhh!) to celebrate those who make a daily journey
through the Bearpit! It's a party that commends their commute and marks a moment in the
day that is usually instantly forgotten. Watch the space steadily fill with the spirit of the
funfair and join Megan to surprise passersby, as she takes us back in time to when the
Bearpit was a place of destination, a trading post and a flurry of excitement.
The party is free and open to all. Just turn up!

Megan Clark-Bagnall is a BV Studio studio holder (M2) and makes work that is accessible, 
fun, and humorous and although her projects often seem a little ridiculous, they are made with complete 
sincerity. Megan‘s interests include scale and size, the present day, the past and the future, the kitsch and the 
mundane. She creates large-scale installations, sensory experiences, almost-performances, events and 
happenings. She often makes things by hand, which gives some of her projects a D.I.Y. aesthetic.

BV OPEN STUDIOS 2015



BV Studios announces its fifth annual Open Studios and you are warmly invited to the Private View and party at 6pm Friday 24th April. The studios will then be open over Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April from 11am to 5pm. 

There are 35 units to explore with over 140 artists and creatives resident in the building, everything from painters, sculptors, designers, photographers, video producers and performing arts! Open Studios is a wonderful opportunity to see behind the usual closed doors and to purchase or commission beautiful art by some of Bristol's finest creatives.

You will be astounded, confounded, stunned and staggered by the quality and variety of work to be seen and enjoyed.

Entry is FREE with a great selection of refreshments available in the foyer!







'shooting from the hip'

'Shooting from the Hip' 
12 – 24 September 2014
The Searchers contemporary artists invite you to an exhibition of
painting, drawing, sculpture, photography & film @ Centrespace Gallery
8 artists, will present new work. Suggesting very different individual propositions.
Harriet Aston, Stephen Buckeridge, Tony Eastman, Michael Hayter,
Stuart Low, Dave Morgan-Davies, Jitka Palmer, Ruth Piper
Preview: Friday 12 September 6-9pm
Centrespace Gallery, 6  Leonard Lane, Bristol, BS1 1EA
Searchers Event - Artists' Talking
Saturday 20 September at 2pm
An informal public discussion about the show with the artists
Tea & Cake - £3.00 donation
Exhibition: Open Daily: 11 - 6pm
Contact: Ruth Piper, 07711541852,
ruth@thesearcherscontemporary.com, www.thesearcherscontemporary.com
www.centrespacegallery.com, info@centrespacegallery.com
Ruth Piper, Dave Morgan-Davis and Stuart Low are artists at BV Studios.
Copyright © 2014 The Searchers, All rights reserved.

CHIMERA 





A new performance work you might find interesting, taking place on the Bristol Suspension Bridge.

"Chimera"     
September 13th & 14th  4.00 - 4.30pm

Perhaps more common a sight than a truly wild animal, is a luridly dressed hiker.

Join Alexander Stevenson for an unusual walking tour of Clifton Suspension Bridge, exploring what we mean by ‘wild’. 
At the point where city meets countryside, bear witness to unusual creatures in the distant landscape. 

Ticket includes free telescope and an audio copy of the performance. Dress in hiking gear with as much neon and 
fluorescent colour as possible. Meet at the Visitor Information Centre. 

Chimera on Facebook
Book tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/815822
 
Alexander Stevenson is an artist at BV Studios.


A Wave Looks the Same from Above and Below

Curated by Charlotte Cousins

Online Curation by Will Kendrick


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Private View: 22nd August , 6 - 9pm
Online works go live at 6pm Home-Platform.com

Unit 6D, The Old Malthouse, Little Ann Street, BS2 9EB Bristol

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Exhibition text: As Far As The Archives Can See
by Trevor H Smith (https://www.facebook.com/thsmithartistwriter)

The world stops again and watches itself watching a breach in the seamless surface of a world of equal access and ability to reproduce. What else is there but to record and store? Where else to look but back at ourselves?

In a world of balloon-enabled connectivity and donkey-driven solar panel-powered water purification units, our product is our progress.

The couple on the beach turns to face the setting sun. Each with one arm raised they capture the moment forever. A thousand years later that sunset has become a landmark; the rocks a monument to a moment in time that was never really a moment at all.

The trees remain. And the image’s unbroken reign stretches back as far as the archives can see.

A watermarked photograph of a 3D printed copyright symbol is undone by a screenshot, a copy and paste, and a picture of a repost of a blog about a tweet about a tweet about copyright and then it’s lost.

Are they crease-marks on the screen?

We build that we may continue to call ourselves builders, and we store that we may recall how we built, from Egypt to Lasceaux, in formats that neither human nor artificial brain could ever fathom.

A wave looks the same from above and below.

What’s yours is mine.






BV OPEN STUDIOS 2014




Friday 30th May - 6pm till late, and Saturday 31st May & Sunday 1st June from 11am to 6pm.

 We are delighted to announce our fourth OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND, celebrating the work of over 140 artists and creative businesses in the building.

 You are invited to come to the Private View from 6pm till 9pm on Friday 30th May. The festivities will continue till late with music etc


Saturday and Sunday provides a more leisurely opportunity to enjoy the exciting artwork of each artist, from recent graduates to artists with more established and growing reputations.

You can expect to see work across all forms of fine art, illustration and design, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, installation, film & video, sound art and performance. There will be fresh new work from both long term residents and artists who have arrived in the intervening months since the last Open in 2013.

Your journey around the building begins with an exhibition of original postcards presented anonymously in the BV Gallery. Made by both BV artists and invited guest artists. They will cost £15 each… the proceeds will go towards funding and maintaining the exhibition space at BV.

So come along, have a drink and a chat to the artists, and prepare to be delighted, astonished, amazed and challenged.

BV Open Studios 2014


Clare Thornton Book News

Clare Thornton will be launching her latest artist book 'Corridors, Stairways & Corners: Selected Traces of Performance 1967-1998' commisioned by Arnolfini on Sat. 9th November FREE 5-7pm Reading Room. 

 For the launch she has invited two movement artists Laura Dannequin & Martha King to use the text as a score; a prompt to actions that will evolve throughout the Arnolfini building.

 Stairways, Corridors & Corners
An alternative guide to the Arnolfini building

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/stairways-corridors-corners
A bookwork produced during a six month period of research within Arnolfini's Dance Archive.
Drawing on documentary photographs, brochures and programme notes held in the Reading Room the artist has selected six performance pieces that took place at Arnolfini between 1976-1998.
Employing concrete poetry and cut-up techniques Stairways, Corridors & Corners is an invitation to you, the reader, to revive traces of performance in the building.

Inline images 1

Clare also has an artist page featuring a new collaborative work Italic i in 'On Not Knowing: How Artists Think' with an essay by Emma Cocker Eds. Rebecca Fortnum & Elizabrth Fisher, Black Dog Publishing 2013 (ISBN: 1908966297)
The Italic I
http://www.amazon.co.uk/On-Not-Knowing-Artists-Think/dp/1908966297

www.clarethornton.com
www.axisweb.org/artist/clarethornton

Peter Lyons at The Searchers Contemporary, Bristol

Peter Lyons from G1 is showing a new video installation 'Hyrogliphics' at The Searchers Contemporary from the 20th-27th July.

'Hyrogliphics' is a documentation of performance; exploring identity and how the tales we tell about ourselves can be interpreted in any number of different ways according to our audience.

Open daily: 12-5pm

14 St Michaels Hill, Bristol, BS2 8DT.

Paris Higgins at 44AD, Bath



'Days of Scorpio' is a solo exhibition by Paris Higgins from G9 at 44AD in Bath until 21st July.

Days of Scorpio brings together a selection of recent work by Higgins, which present a polarity between two conceptual and stylistic approaches to painting. Despite a clear divergence, both approaches are grounded in the same theoretical standpoint: a critical engagement with painterly discourse in relation to contemporary visual culture, seeking to deal specifically with notions of signification and aesthetic language.

 The paintings are indirectly tied to cinematic and musical culture through the mediated use of certain visual phenomena that can be associated with both. Some reformat that which they draw upon, abstracting, not literally, but on the level of interpretation. And in doing so signification becomes detached, established visual associations, which are bound up in both the recollection and comprehension of a wider cultural sphere are placed in a state of antagonism.

 Others follow a process of aesthetic simulation, drawing on relatable themes in an attempt to expand on an existing cycle of mimicry, which although specific (associated directly with the photography of William Eggleston in relation to his influence on cinematography), stands as an example among many.

 What can be said of all the work on show is that the painting process itself not only informs the production of these displaced visual products, but is responsible for building a visual language that is significantly separate from the sources it initially draws upon. The paintings thrive because of this; they facilitate fantasy, not through illusion but through their ability to allude with a potency, which is quite inconspicuous. The paintings don’t operate by proxy; they manufacture their own meaning, their own coherence, and in doing so become inherently ambivalent. Here lies their irony; as such a process is laden in contradiction.

 This aspect of the work indirectly points to a defining characteristic of contemporary visual culture: incongruity as a consequence of mass signification, and in this, the seaming inevitability of a variable yet structured understanding informed and dictated by individual identity. 

Martyn Cross at Pallas Projects, Dublin


Take Me To The Other Side

Mark Beatty (IRE), Martyn Cross (UK), Jad Fair (USA), Shona Harrison (UK), Jane Lives (IRE), Kathy Nugent (IRE), Richard Proffitt (UK), Liam Ryan (IRE), Jason Thompson (UK)

 Project Space at PP/S
18/07/13 – 28/07/13

 An encounter with objects, images and artworks charged with the mysticism of tribal rituals, punk spirituality, psychedelia, occult symbolism, primitive crafts, folk traditions, and magic.

 Selected and arranged by Michael Hill and Richard Proffitt.

 For further information please check out the ‘Get Involved’ page at www.pallasprojects.org

 Preview
6-8pm, Thursday, July 18

 Gallery Hours
12-6pm daily, Friday, July 19 - Sunday, April 28

 Pallas Projects/Studios, 115-117 The Coombe, Dublin 8, Ireland

Catherine Knight at Circle Hospital


In conjunction with Artolo, Catherine Knight has work in the new art collection at the Circle Hospital, Bath.

 Catherine Knight takes her inspiration from collections of old black and white family photographs. She selects elements from these photos and combines them to create new landscapes. The use of translucent layers of brightly coloured paint gives her large paintings a dreamlike feeling.

www.catherineknight.com

Like A Monkey With A Miniature Cymbal




BV artists Zanne Andrea, Martyn Cross and Brendan Lancaster will travel to Aid & Abet in Cambridge this July to take part in Like A Monkey With A Miniature Cymbal, a large group exhibition of UK based artists curated by Mermaid & Monster.

 Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal is an exhibition about obsessions, repetition, perseverance and the drive needed to carry on, as an artist, or in any way of life. This can be found in the subject matter and methods used, as well as in knowing (or sometimes not knowing) what you are doing, or where you are going.What is the intense belief or energy needed to make you get out of bed each day, often to little attention or small reward? Could it be that despite all of life’s trials and tribulations, it could be, whisper it, ‘fun’… that you actually enjoy it, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal.

 Zanne Andrea | Darren Banks | Nicholas Carrick | Rhys Coren | Martyn Cross |  Gordon Dalton | Lloyd Durling | Tracey Eastham | Thomas Goddard | Anton Goldenstein | S Mark Gubb | Pat Flynn | Neal Jones | Brendan Lancaster | Marion Piper | Yelena Popova | Laura Reeves | Anthony Shapland | Ian Watson

 Like A Monkey With A Miniature Cymbal opens on the 17th July and continues until 23rd August.

www.aidandabet.co.uk
www.mermaidandmonster.wordpress.com

Laurie Lax at The Looking Glass


Laurie Lax will be showing in As Far As The Eye Can See with Kathy Hinde and Alice Vandeleur-Boorer at The Looking Glass in Bristol until 7th July 2013. More information about this exhibition can be found on Laurie's website at laurielax.co.uk. Please do pop along and check it out - there's bound to be a worm or two having a wriggle...

Clare Thornton at A3 Project Space



'After After Richard Hughes'
limited edition Risograph print
(produced by Clare Thornton during her 'Performing Documents' research residency at Arnolfini 2012)

 Clare Thornton is showing in the inaugural exhibition A3 Works at A3 Project Space in Digbeth, Birmingham 28th June - 6th July 2013

 A3 Works brings together the work of over 50 artists who each approach the dimensions of the A3 paper scale as a limitless possibility. The curators of A3 Project Space invited artists they have previously collaborated with along with those they are developing new relationships to be part of the opening exhibition of a new art gallery for Birmingham. The exhibition includes new and existing works by contemporary artists and designers working nationally and internationally.


 Artists:
Larry Achaimpong / An Endless Supply / Jivan Astfalck / BAZ / Simon & Tom Bloor / Kathrin Böhm / Nicholas Bullen / Elly Clarke / Paul Cordwell / Rhys Coren / Beth Derbyshire / Keith Dodds / Stewart Easton / Stuart Edmundson / Mark Essen / Alec Finlay / S Mark Gubb / Lesley Guy / John Hammersley / David Helbich / Sophie Hope & Jenny Richards / Amy Twigger-Holroyd / Toby Huddlestone / Mahtab Hussain / Kevin Hunt / Roddy Hunter / Andrew Jackson / Ben Javens / Juneau Projects / Oliver C Jones / Serena Korda / Adrian Lee / Hayley Lock/ Alexandra Lockett / Mini Moderns / MSFAC / Jo Masding / Andrew Maughan / Kate Pemberton / Pil and Galia Kollectiv / Trevor Pitt / Simon Peplow / Magnus Quaife / Jo Roberts / Liz Rowe / Kevin Ryan / Sparrow and Castice / Clare Thornton / Miles Thurlow / Mark Titchner / Martina Vermorel / Cathy Wade / Edward Wakefield / Mo White / Rich White.

In August, Clare will also feature in a Black Dog publication 'On Not Knowing: How Artists Think'. More info about the book can be found here.

Happenings at BV Open Studios...

A huge thank you to all those that attended this years BV Open Studios - a great time was had by artists and visitors alike! Here's a few images from a fantastic weekend...

Studio visitors
Seila Fernandez Arconada
Harriet White

Martyn Cross
Megan Hoyle
Nicholas Dietrich
Will Kendrick 
Mariele Neudecker & Rosie Snell talk in Motorcade/Flashparade

BV Open Studios 2013


Call For Artists - Devising Time at Arnolfini




Apply now to use Arnolfini's auditorium for the development of ideas (during September and December 2013).

Arnolfini is offering an artist, collective or company from the South West region use of its auditorium to aid in the development of new ideas or pre-existing works. A small bursary is also available as well as the opportunity to preview any 'work in progress' to the public. Apply now, the deadline for applications is midday on Monday July 1st (Monday)

In recognition that artists, performers and performance makers often need to devise, rehearse and create works in situ, Arnolfini invites applications for the use of its Auditorium space across two five-day periods in September and December 2013. In addition the successful applicant(s) will also have the option of using Arnolfini's dark studio and will receive a small bursary of £500 to assist with expenses.

Applicants (or at least one member of a collective or company) must be located in the South West region to be eligible to apply. Applications based on any art-form will be accepted - Arnolfini's mission is to foster audiences for experimental practice across disciplines. 

For further information about this great opportunity please check Arnolfini's blog here.

Martyn Cross solo exhibition at Angelika Studios


www.angelikastudios.co.uk
www.yateheads.blogspot.com

Martyn was also selected by Ceri Hand for this year's Creekside Open which is on at A.P.T. Gallery, Deptford, London until the 30th June 2013.

www.creeksideopen.org

Martyn Cross Toilet Show



Crumbling Into Dust

An exhibition by Martyn Cross

The Edwardian Toilets, 
corner of Woodland Road & Park Row, 
Bristol

Preview: Thursday 31st May, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues 1st-16th June
Thurs-Sat 11am-6pm
Sun 11am-5pm

Crumbling Into Dust forms part of Bristol Biennial 2012


Dave Morgan-Davies




Dave Morgan-Davies Solo Show

What you see is what you see

This solo exhibition of 'quiet photography'  takes a minimalistic approach to both content and chromatic range.  The work explores the notion that if one looks, an emotional connection can be found in a place, perhaps any place.

What you see is what you see is part of the 2012 Bristol Festival of Photography and is curated by Louise Copping.
Thursday 17th May
Preview: 6pm-9pm
Exhibition continues:
Friday 17th – Sunday 27th May
12 – 6pm Thursday - Sunday

Motorcade/FlashParade
37 Philip Street
Bedminster
Bristol
BS3 4EA
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