Royal West of England Academy
Royal West of England Academy
Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
City of Bristol
BS8 1PX
England
Website
Telephone
0117 9735129
Fax
0117 9237874
The RWA Art Gallery is situated in fashionable Clifton and is open throughout the year. The building is one of the finest examples of Victorain Italianate style built in 1858 as the first art gallery in Bristol. The RWA shows contemporary art exhibitions of painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and architecture as well as its own historic collection. Most contemporary works are for sale.
Venue Type:
Gallery
Royal West of England Academy
Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
City of Bristol
BS8 1PX
England
Website
Telephone
0117 9735129
Fax
0117 9237874
The RWA collection consists of over 1000 works including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. Among the paintings in the collection are works by artists from the Newlyn, St Ives and Bloomsbury Schools. Paintings by George Swaish, Mathew Hale, Anne Redpath, Mary Fedden, Carel Weight, Bernard Dunstan and Elizabeth Blackadder are also valued additions to the collection.
Collection details
Fine Art
Royal West of England Academy
Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
City of Bristol
BS8 1PX
England
Website
Telephone
0117 9735129
Fax
0117 9237874
Janette Kerr PRWA: Extremes and Instabilities
Drawn to the perimeters of land, Janette Kerr’s work is an index of edges and ledges, exposed headlands and windswept seas. Her research project, Extreme Wave Theory, concerns the interface between art and science, relating to the history and stories of the sea surrounding Shetland, and the work of Norwegian oceanographers studying the unpredictability of waves and wind.
The outcome is a body of work that seeks to make direct visual associations between observational, archival and oral research, and oceanographic measurement. Janette is President of the RWA.
EVENT:
Dr Janette Kerr PRWA Lecture: Extremes and Instabilities – Extreme Wave Project
Tuesday 21st February, 6.30pm at the RWA
Dr Janette Kerr was elected President of the Royal West of England Academy in September 2011 and has been a member since 2003. She received her doctorate in Fine Art from the University of the West of England, 2005, and has been a visiting Research Fellow at UWE since 2007. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, her paintings are held in private and public collections. Drawn to extreme perimeters of land, her work is an index of edges and ledges, exposed headlands and wind-swept seas.
Janette’s lecture accompanies the exhibition Extremes and Instabilities, 16th February to the 4th March 2012 at the RWA, and is the outcome of a current research and development project concerning the interface between art and science, related to history and narratives of the sea around the Shetland Islands. Her work seeks to make direct visual associations between observational, experiential fieldwork, archival and oral research, and oceanographic measurement.
Engaging in open dialogues with Norwegian mathematicians and scientists studying the unpredictability of waves and wind – oceanographers searching the oceans for extreme waves, with Shetland fishermen who know their sea and coastline intimately, and tell tales of storms, massive waves and near escapes, and from delving into the archives for old documents and artefacts relating to fishing, she has amassed a kind of "non-intentional" personal archive.
The project has led to consideration of the process of translation at work between place and making art - whether the process of drawing and painting transcends observation of a place; whether memory and interpretation of that place is affected by the act of drawing – and to consider the impact of all this ‘new knowledge” upon production of artwork. Does such immersion in a place, mean that what is subsequently drawn and painted becomes based less on what is seen and more on what one thinks is known, or wants and imagines to be there?
For more information see www.janettekerr.co.uk or extremewavetheory.blogspot
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Where
Royal West of England Academy
Admission
£5 Adult £3 Concession
Website
http://www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2012/02/exhibitions-janette-kerr/
Margaret Gregory RWA: Portrait of an Artist
Margaret Gregory was a poet and painter, and an active member of the RWA. A year after her death in 2011, her son, musician Will Gregory, is presenting a retrospective exhibition of her paintings and drawings.
A combination of key works charting the last 30 years hang alongside previously unshown pieces from Margaret’s own collection as well as remarkable pictures unearthed from her studio. The exhibition recreates a flavour of Margaret’s much-loved studio including the easel and palettes she used as well as the photographs and cuttings from which she took inspiration.
Featuring her diaries, sketchbooks and the poetry she wrote, Will has curated a very personal show, providing a rare insight into the life of this powerful, poetic and visionary artist.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Where
Royal West of England Academy
Admission
£5 Adult £3 Concession
Website
http://www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2012/02/exhibitions-margaret-gregory/
Royal West of England Academy
Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
City of Bristol
BS8 1PX
England
Website
Telephone
0117 9735129
Fax
0117 9237874
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