20th Feb 2012 ⁄ A team of eight Bristol University students have discovered a burgeoning opportunity for budding artists to showcase their talent through a student-run festival: Bristol Arts Week. The art initiative aims to celebrate the creativity of students who often...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ From Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 April, the Paintworks Event Space on Bath Road will play host to Expressions, a unique Festival of Creativity. Hundreds of artists have made the imagined, inner world life-size, including six giant animal-headed dolls at a tea party...
10th Feb 2012 ⁄ Art gallery Bath Contemporary will be staging a new exhibition of paintings by Mike Bernard RI, which opens on 10th March 2012. Featuring his latest compositions of bustling Italian towns and markets, serene Venetian canals and his favourite fishing harbours...
12th Jan 2012 ⁄ Cheltenham’s popular Xposed Club returns for a new season on Friday 20 January to its brand new venue at the University of Gloucestershire’s Centre for Art and Photography (CAP). The line-up includes the suitably named trio N.E.W. featuring Steve Noble on drums...
10th Jan 2012 ⁄ ICIA, University of Bath, has announced its new spring season of music, theatre, dance, visual arts, talks, film, workshops and classes. For the Olympic year, ICIA selects the theme of ‘internationalism’. The theme offers the opportunity to examine the relationship between...
20th Dec 2011 ⁄ An exhibition of paintings by Clive Jebbett, ‘Moments in Time’, will open at the Bath Contemporary gallery in February 2012. A strong sense of familiarity with Clive's paintings is shared through the ambiguity of subject, time and place, which often strikes an emotional...
19th Dec 2011 ⁄ Following the success of this year's Jazz Festival at Chipping Sodbury, plans are well underway for a second Jazz Festival in 2012. The inaugural festival held earlier this year was a big hit with jazz fans and featured Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen as the main headline act...
24th Nov 2011 ⁄ Shaun William George Ryder is a Singer, an Author, a Father, an Actor, an ex-Heroin addict, a lyricist and a King of the Jungle. He also fronted two of the most important, generation-defining bands that Britain has seen in the last 20 years. And he's coming to Gloucester Guildhall...
15th Nov 2011 ⁄ Founded earlier this year, the Drawn in Bristol collective celebrates the work of locally-based illustrators by providing them with a platform to showcase their work. After a busy autumn launching their shared studio and screen-printing workshop...
1st Nov 2011 ⁄ In the six week run-up to Christmas 2011, Made in Bristol has acquired three, previously empty, shop units within Cabot Circus shopping centre to showcase the works of a diverse range of local creatives...
28th Oct 2011 ⁄ It sometimes takes an artist’s outlook to show you something different about the city you live in, revealing a curious, unconventional beauty in the spaces more often avoided. Over the past nine months Simon Hopkinson has shown his work at some of Bristol’s hottest exhibition spaces...
12th Oct 2011 ⁄ Bath Contemporary is showing work by renowned Scottish artist Michael G. Clark focusing on the relationship between the artist, France and Scotland and also his connection with Bath. His paintings are a celebration of life linking the significant...
22nd Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A Birmingham design agency’s newest recruit has big plans for the company. Barques Design, based in the Jewellery Quarter, has appointed Kathryn Small as business development manager...
