Art Weekender Programme 2015
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Art Weekender Bristol & Bath Friday 30 October– Sunday 1 November 2015 Three days celebrating art across two cities Produced by: www.artweekender.com #awbb CONTENTS Welcome to the Art Weekender — What’s On Where 4–19 Bristol & Bath 2015 Map and Venue Information centre pages Special Events 20–29 The Art Weekender blows in across both Bristol and Bath this autumn, as over 50 artists and arts organisations offer the chance to experience Visitor & Travel Information 30–31 the two cities as never before. Though just 13 minutes apart by train, Bristol and Bath offer two distinctive contexts for enjoying outstanding contemporary art, from international exhibitions and unique gallery and museum collections, new commissions and special performances, to open studios and public art. PLAN YOUR VISIT Look out for the Weekender Ambassadors across the cities with their colourful umbrellas, who have all the inside information on where to go, Whether you have an hour, a morning or the full three what to see and how to get around. Supported by Bristol and Bath Cultural days, follow one of our suggested itineraries on the Destinations Project, we’d encourage you, visitors and residents alike, Art Weekender website; these include: to explore more of these two very different but equally fascinating cities. Artists could be a guest or host of the Human Hotel, an artist-led project which began at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009, and I’M LOOKING... offers the chance to live like a local in Bath and Bristol over the weekend. The Weekender is the perfect opportunity to open up your horizons – — TO BUILD A NEW CITY artistically and geographically. Start your day with a breakfast talk in one city, jump on a train and finish it in the other at one of the special Weekender evening events. — FOR SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS Join us in a celebration of the vibrancy of the visual arts in the South West. — TO EXPAND MY MIND USING THIS PROGRAMME — TO LOSE MYSELF IN SOUND What’s on Where events are listed A–Z by venue. Venues can be found 1 on the map (located in the centre) by their numbered markers. — FOR THE DARK SIDE Special Events (p20 onwards) are listed chronologically. — FOR INSTAGRAM INSPIRATION Those venues with direct access are marked with this symbol. This symbol denotes that an event is child-friendly. www.artweekender.com For further information and to let us know your thoughts email: [email protected] | tel: 0117 930 4282 2 3 Alexander Stevenson. NOW NOW NOW NOW TIME AND SPACE (Working Title) Richard Long Michael Dean Arnolfini Next to Arnolfini Fri & Sat 11am–9pm; Sun 11am–6pm Fri–Sun all day Continues to 15 Nov; Free Photo: Julian Hughes Continues until November; Free A major new solo exhibition celebrating NOW NOW NOW NOW (Working Title), 2015, Bristol-based, Turner Prize winning artist, is a site-specific work by Michael Dean for Richard Long. the Harris and Co. building, located on Bristol harbourside. Dean has used wooden hoarding Part of the programme celebrating Bristol’s as a sculptural element, fly-posting the year as European Green Capital, the project surface with collaged mountain faces that looks particularly at the area where Long grew spell out the words “now…now…now…now”. up and still lives, as the start and end point This cryptic, geometric landscape stretches for many of his early walks and text works. along Farrs Lane and Narrow Quay, suggesting The exhibition focuses on the artist’s personal an abstract geography at the intersection relationship to place and local materials, between the public space of the harbourside and how the ideas and language developed and the evolving building behind. through his early career were key in the development of ideas that the artist now www.arnolfini.org.uk realises across the world. @arnolfiniarts www.arnolfini.org.uk 4 @arnolfiniarts #RichardLong Quilt Cowboy City Ideas Studio Bristol ed eve k n 4 in t l Alexander Stevenson The Architecture Centre Bristol p24 Fri 11am–8pm; Sat & Sun 12pm–5pm The American Museum in Britain Continues to 8 Nov; Free Fri–Sun 12pm–5pm Twilight Opening Fri 5pm–8pm (with drinks) £10; £9 conc.; £5.50 child; £27.50 family In Bristol’s year as European Green Capital, Alexander Stevenson will take as his starting the City Ideas Studio explores links between point the context in which American culture environmental concerns and the development and history is read, when not in America – of places. This season the focus is on for a new artwork with the American Museum ‘Resources’, presenting work by designers and in Britain. makers helping to answer the question, ‘how can we make more of the things we have?’ , 2015. Photo: Stuart Whipps Archival qualities of quilting and global Featuring building and retrofit projects in the interpretations of cowboy culture will feed city and beyond, you can explore not only how into an exciting new site-specific piece at best to use finite resources such as building the museum, with escapades into Bath’s city materials and money, but also how cities and countryside. should harness the powerful resource of human inventiveness and action. A new commission for Art Weekender Bristol TIME AND SPACE & Bath. www.architecturecentre.co.uk @ArchCentre #cityideas www.americanmuseum.org d ev ke e n n @americanmuseum 3 i t Richard Long: Bristol l p21 ed eve k n 2 in t Bath l p21 4 5 Enjoy Create 2015 Radiate The Roper Gallery, Bath Artists’ Studios Merilyn Fairskye Fri–Sun 11am–5pm Continues to 4 Nov; Free MediaWall in Commons, Bath Spa University Fri & Sat 10am–5pm An exhibition of work produced by the Continues to 21 Nov; Free participants in Bath Artists’ Studios annual , 2015. Photo: Roser Diaz programme of practical workshops with Radiate, by Australian artist Merilyn Fairskye, local community organisations. was made for the MediaWall at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus. Fairskye Pavilion Life Drawing Workshops engages you through her photographic and Sat & Sun 10am–4pm; Free video practice which explores notions of time, identity and place. Responding to sites Drop into the studio where one of the of historical significance, including Chernobyl, experienced workshop leaders will guide you Sellafield and Drigg, her work appears both Philip Cheater, through the finer techniques of Life Drawing. monumental and transient; she gives us pause for reflection on the contemporary challenges www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk faced, amid technological advances and @bathartists globalisation. ed eve k n 5 in t www.bathspa.ac.uk l Bath p23 @MediaWallBSU ed eve k n 6 in t Bath l p26 Pavilion The Trading Post Philip Cheater in collaboration Megan Clark-Bagnall Merilyn Fairskye, Merilyn Fairskye, with Eifion Porter The Bearpit The Bearpit Sat 9am–4pm; Free Fri–Sun all day; Free What treasure do you collect? Stamps Radiate A dazzling structure has taken up residence from foreign shores, perfect skimming stones in the Bearpit. Part-sculpture and part-shelter, or mysterious coins? This is your opportunity Philip Cheater’s design was inspired by old to trade it! pavilions and bandstands, as well as the Bearpit’s previous hexagonal landscaping. Inspired by the historic Bristol Fair, Megan Clark-Bagnall invites you to revive the Bearpit Decorated with hazard-graphics, Pavilion as a place of exchange, and trade some brings together the visual language of warning happiness from your everyday journeys. with a warm invitation to gather, to meet and to celebrate – reflecting changing Visit www.artinbearpit.com to locate attitudes towards the Bearpit itself. the artwork through geocaching. Leave your treasure and collect another. Commissioned by Hand in Glove. Art in Bearpit is a pilot programme Commissioned by Hand in Glove. of commissions and events developed ed eve k n for the Bearpit at St James Barton Roundabout. 7 in t Bristol l p21 www.artinbearpit.com ed eve k n 7 in t Bristol l p28 6 7 John Wood & Paul Harrison, John Wood Side by Side Ruined Bristol 2015 Lab Space Hew Locke Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Private View: Fri 5pm–8:30pm; Free Brunswick Cemetery Gardens All day, every day; Free An exhibition of collaborative work produced by artists from Jamaica Street Artist Studios A permanent public artwork by Hew Locke in Bristol and Bath Artists’ Studios, responding sited in an 18th century cemetery garden. Erdkunde to the Bristol Green Capital theme of Ruined is a series of cast iron grave markers ‘Resources’. The artists were given the word relating to the share certificates and historical ‘green’ as their starting point for the project, documents of commercial companies which and the group of painters, sculptors, no longer exist or have undergone transformation photographers and illustrators found new through takeovers, bankruptcy, nationalisation creative partnerships and new ways of working. or other economic and political changes. www.jamaicastreetartists.co.uk Visit the Situations website to watch an www.ysidesideb.wordpress.com interview with Hew Locke. @jamaicastreet Commissioned by Bristol City Council ed eve k n 10 in t and produced by Situations in 2010. Bristol l p27 www.situations.org.uk @situationsuk 11 death: the human Erdkunde Bristol experience John Wood & Paul Harrison Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Ruined Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun 10am–6pm Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun 10am–6pm Continues to 13 Mar; Pay what you think Continues to 3 Jan; Free From the Day of the Dead and Victorian Artists John Wood and Paul Harrison present Hew Locke, mourning rituals, to mummification practices Erdkunde a new video work responding to and fantasy coffins, death: the human the geology collections.