You may not be familiar with the name Simon Mills, but if you live in Bristol and engage in any way with its artistic subculture - and if you’re reading this, you probably do - you’ll have almost certainly seen his work. Simon is a prolific artist who has displayed work in exhibitions and galleries from Bristol to New York; not bad for an unassuming young man who grew up in Nailsea.
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May 2010 @ Bristol Old Vic, Bristol
Showing as part of Mayfest 2010, Bristol’s festival of contemporary theatre
I’m genuinely unsure where to start in describing the Forest Fringe Microfestival…The whole shebang took place in various areas of the Bristol Old Vic theatre and ranged from the vaguely confusing to the utterly bizarre. Part art exhibition, part interactive theatrical production, part gig, part magical mystery tour, there was plenty to see and plenty to involve yourself with (depending on how willing you were to let yourself get swept up in the madness).
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Friday 9th April until Friday 21st May 2010 @ The Nails Gallery, Bristol
Artist Abigail McDougall has reinvented her trademark watercolour paintings of Bristol with an exhibition that’s all about leaving the city behind and soaking up the vibrancy of the countryside. Adventures In Light will be on show at the Nails Gallery, beneath St Nick’s Market in central Bristol, until May 21st. The white-washed underground gallery showcases forty of Abigail’s recent watercolours and acrylic paintings produced along the beautiful Bristol-Bath and Bradford-On-Avon cycle paths, as well as views from recent visits to Italy and Morocco.
Friday 9th until Thursday 29th April 2010 @ The Grant Bradley Art Gallery, Bristol
The raw shock ink blot test goes dotty spotty and potty: Adam Closs returns with an exhibition by Rorschach’s ink blot tests, done entirely in black and white whilst experimenting with taking the pressure out of the canvas, creating deep 3D reliefs. Most artists paint or sculpt in order to get a particular message or meaning across, but not so for Adam Closs. He’s dedicated his life to creating conceptual works that aim to do the exact opposite to this, leaving it up to the viewer to decide for themselves what they’re looking at.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March 2010 @ Bridewell Island, Bristol
Prints still for sale on the website
www.luminosity-exhibition.co.uk
Saturday 27th February until Saturday 27th March 2010 @ Innocent Fine Art, Bristol
The record cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is an iconic image that sums up the spirit of Britain in the 1960s. The picture, designed by Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, is placed in the window of the small exhibition currently showing at Innocent Fine Art in Clifton. The cover is now cherished as an emblem of British culture and is the work that helped Peter Blake to become the legendary national treasure that he is today.
Friday 5th until Thursday 25th March 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol
Not content with dominating the art world, it seems the infamous Banksy has now turned his hand to cinema. On the face of it, his film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, is a colourful documentary about the rise of street art and its explosion in popularity over the last 5-10 years. We’ve got interviews with several of the big players (and some of the smaller ones), tales of their exploits and narrated segments of various “key” moments in the scene’s (and Banksy’s) history like the spraying of the West Bank wall and the placing of a Guantanamo Bay detainee model in Disneyland. Holding all this documenting together is the story of one man, a certain Thierry Guetta, and how his love of street art slowly took over his life and changed it beyond recognition.
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Saturday 16th until Saturday 30th January 2010 @ The Grant Bradley Art Gallery, Bristol
If there’s one thing you can say about Daniel Moncur-Sime, it’s that he knows how to get people involved. With a background in fashion and commercial photography, he’s a man who knows how to pinpoint what people want, and give it to them. On the first non-snowy day since Bristol whited out, that turned out to be, well, a bit of a laugh, some attention, and the chance to do something utterly different all in the name of art.
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I know it’s not very original to be saying this now but as much as others seem to rant, moan and complain about it, I am still no closer to understanding people’s obsessions with photographing literally everything and anything they see and do. An obsession that was once reserved for the Japanese tourist, it seems photo-mania has gone international and now you can’t move at a festival, gig, art exhibit or public event for people with their cameras out, instinctively and blinding punching buttons on their tiny camera-phones or huge digital SLRs; a mindless clicking that encourages them not to think, not to imagine, not to feel. What’s wrong with looking at and simply remembering something? What is their compulsive urge to snap everything that moves? It’s like an addiction.
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