Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else at the Arnolfini from Sat 3 Mar – Sun 22 Apr 2012

Shilpa Gupta creates artwork using a variety of media including video, objects, photography, sound and performances to examine such themes as desire, conflict, militarism, security, technology and human rights. Gupta’s application of technology in her works reveals her interest in how various media affect our understanding of the political realm. Considering technology as being an extension of body, mind and...

Sophy Rickett Rickett To The River showing at the Arnolfini from 3 March – 22 April 2012

Sophy Rickett’s new work To The River takes its inspiration from the Severn Bore – an amazing phenomenon of nature whereby a large tidal wave runs along the River Severn during the moon’s equinox. Rickett’s installation incorporates video and surround-sound audio, creating an immersive environment that portrays the anticipation of the crowd on the banks of the river at night awaiting the tidal...

‘To the Edge’ Solo exhibition by Neil Pinkett at Bath Contemporary

This is a man who thinks nothing of traversing mountains, hanging out of helicopters and pushing his body to its limit via monumental cycling and canoeing trips, all in the name of art. But while Pinkett is undoubtedly one of the more physical of British artists, he is also one of the most sensitive.Witness, for example, his latest body of work, created from travels in Snowdonia, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and...

Tate St Ives Summer Exhibition 2011

Summer season 2011 at Tate St Ives brings an eclectic mix of modern and contemporary works to the galleries. Devised as a series of independent one-room displays, it features important works from the Tate Collection, as well as significant loans. Juxtaposing artists and works from different generations, the common emphasis will be on space, structure and light. The show responds directly and playfully to the unique...

Anatomy (Group Show) Review Antlers Gallery, Park Street, Bristol By Polly Allen

It’s no coincidence that, for as long as humans have been civilised, we’ve been dually fascinated and horrified by anatomy. From Hamlet’s soliloquising over poor Yorick’s skull, to Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusting of the same body part, we are a people constantly aware of our vulnerable forms. What better a subject to take for a group show than this? Bristol’s self-proclaimed ‘nomadic’ gallery,...

Summer Exhibitions at Victoria Art Gallery Bath

Two exciting exhibitions that run until October at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. The gallery large permanent collection. On display, are paintings by Gainsborough, Turner and Sickert, and many other leading artists from the 15th century to the present day. Decorative arts include collections of pottery, porcelain, glass and watches. Mark Angus: Flying Figures Works on glass and paper   Originally from Bath,...

The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang with an inclusion by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Arnolfini: Review by Polly Allen

Modern art often gets a bad press, for being too cerebral and relying on what much of the public would perceive to be trickery – far removed from the simple communication of portraiture and still life painting. As a vast lover of art in all its forms, I regularly find myself defending modern strands and encouraging people to be more open-minded in their exhibition choices, which are made easier by our many free...

Guernsey Photography Festival 1-30 June 2011

“Guernsey Photography Festival, with its carefully thought through editorial focus and superb production values, can become Europe’s most important event on the photo festivals calendar.” Judah Passow The Guernsey Photography Festival is proud to announce its 2011 programme, which brings together major names in international photography with a host of emerging talent, for a packed month of exhibitions,...

Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum

In 1898 the third Baron de Ferrieres, a former Mayor and MP for Cheltenham, gave 43 important paintings, mostly from Belgium and the Netherlands, to the town, together with £1000 towards the building of a gallery in which to house them. This was opened in 1899. In 1905 the Schools of Art and Science left the premises they occupied next door to the Art Gallery, and the Museum was opened in these rooms two years...