june
2008 -
Art
Kits International 'here, there, everywhere'
pieces created by adventurous folk were displayed
in Bristol's Here Gallery for members of the public to explore
the minds and lives of the incidental creators.
Visitors to the gallery were also invited to contribute to the exhibition by
creating their own pieces using kits held in the
gallery.
|
may 2008
-
kev grey
For
this show, Kev produced a new series of illustrations which
are both humorous and gothic, including drawings of tough,
tattooed
pin-up girls who could drink you under the table, burlesque
beauties
to tease and please, bloody daggers, manic skulls, saucy
snakes, and Lady Britannia as you've never
seen her before! |
april 2008 -
them lot
Artworks
included span sculpture, illustration photography and site
specific installation based work so you had good odds of finding
something thought provoking at this eclectic ensemble. |
march 2008 -
zombizi's pictures
Zombizi
is a visual artist working primarily in the photographic
medium, with digital manipulations done post production. Included in
this exhibition was about twenty works of mostly
photographic prints from several series, alongside new work. |
february 2008
-
'the joy of classification' by ros
blackmore and andrew hansford
Bringing together collections, ideas, records, sortings
and
imaginings `The Joy of Classification' is a show of manageable
compulsions presented for your inspection by Blackmore & Hansford.
Comprising a selection of small edition books, collages and prints
the show turned the gallery into a library of obsession. |
january 2008 -
‘Of
alchemy and other things’ by Desanka
Ilic
Showing
for the
first time in the UK, Desanka Ilic's work conjures half
forgotten memories of dreams and fairy tales in the mind
of the viewer her work maintains an ethereal aura somewhere
between melancholy and intrigue.
|
december 2007
-
Here
Gallery Xmas Show – ‘affordable gifts & art
for xmas’
Featuring exclusive works by Emily Warren, Peskimo, Camilla
Stacey, Alys Patterson & Jon
Burgerman |
september 2007
-
Mark
Pawson filled the Here Gallery
space with, prints, postcard sculptures, badges,
rubberstampings, pizza leaflets used as wallpaper,
artists multiples and even some things in frames. The
exhibition included a window installation of
OPEN/CLOSED signs (visible 24hrs), and full range of
Pawson's books, badges and other merchandise
was on sale.
|
july
2007 -
`The Insubstantial Hold of
the Reader' by Tamarin
Norwood
An exhibition of new work by translator turned artist Tamarin
Norwood.
Things pretend to be words and words pretend to be things as objects
speak quietly amongst themselves, confusing the boundary between
language and life. |
5th - 31st may
2007
"lost
horizons" by elin thomas
LOST
HORIZONS is a collection of experimental drawings and 3d
works
made over the last five years. An artist's life in the studio involves
both focussed work and hours of play, this show draws together a
selection of these playful experiments. The title LOST HORIZONS comes
from the idea that all these works could be a starting point for
greater things. But somehow, they remain floating in potential space.
So, in some respects their moment has arrived... |
6th -28th
april 2007
"summers
to summers" by tom
cops and aaron
sewards
the gallery is filled with drawings, collages and
photographs this month. tom and aaron play together
in the naive
bedroom pop band "i
know i have no collar" but also spend a lot of time on various visual
arts projects. aaron is always drawing, but recently has been ignoring the
pencil and doing a lot of work with watercolour lines creating sometimes
abstract and
sometimes realistic scenes that draw you in. tom is a photographer who has
been more and more making collages out of nice bits of old paper and other
found objects...
the title comes from an "i know i have no collar" song, but it
represents the distance the two artists felt when aaron moved to canada for
a year and
they focused on their individual work, finding that they'd changed greatly
when they
met up again.
"these are our numbers, summers to summers,
hands inside hands, autumns and winters,
winter and spring,
spring and then summer"
|
6th
- 27th March 2007
"Ghosts
of Borley" by Hannah Taggart
Most of us can't resist a good ghost story, but artist Hannah Taggart is
more fascinated than most. For several years she's been researching Borley
Rectory in Essex, claimed by many to be the most haunted house in England
until it was destroyed by fire in 1939. While it was inhabited, a succession
of residents and visitors reported seeing ghosts, experiencing poltergeist
activities, finding spectral writing on the walls and hearing strange
noises. And events took an even more grisly turn when a brown paper parcel
containing the skull of a young woman was found in a cupboard in 1927.
Hannah Taggart has a long-standing interest in the macabre and sinister as
well as the abandonment and eventual decay of houses, so the notorious
destroyed house naturally appealed. Hannah's obsession with Borley Rectory
has resulted in a large and diverse body of art, which is being shown at the
Here Gallery in Bristol from the 6th to the 27th March. The work installed
in the gallery includes sculpture made from cardboard, a scroll filled with
spirit writing, a film of rats chewing a cardboard doll's house, hand
drawn animation and a series of meticulous ink drawings done over old maps
and architects' plans. Hannah has also replicated a wall from Borley Rectory
by covering an entire wall in the gallery with photocopied drawings inspired
by the original Rectory wallpaper. |
16th-31st
january, 2007
obsessive consumption: restrictions may apply
Obsessive Consumption was created by Kate
Bingaman to showcase her love/hate relationship with money, shopping, branding,
credit cards, celebrity, advertising and marketing. The work is inspired by the
ever ubiquitous, generic, delicate, sometimes stomachache inducing credit card
statement, craft as activism, and general consumerism.
Since October 2004 Kate has been drawing her credit card statments and has been
drawing her daily purchases for the last five years. A selection of credit card
and daily purchase drawings will be shown, alongside her zines and other bits
and bobs she has created to feed her obsessive consumption. |
september
2006 -
a ton of crazy events happened throughout september, it was wild. |
august
2006 -
"Once Upon a Line" featured
a collection of mixed media illustration and art work by Simon
Mills and Kelly Hjersing, two Bristol based
artists with a love for the monochrome, typewritten and graffiti influenced. |
july
2006 -
"Mulling over the difference
of the Other" group
show by artists on the MA Fine Art programme
at UWE aboutcollaboration, difference, chance and compromise. |
june
2006 -
" obsolete technology" group
show in conjunction with the venn
festival and the cube
cinema |
may
2006 -
“ Ready for Action” by Mark
Newport
lifesize knitted superhero costumes, embroidered comic book covers and prints
that use the act of knitting as subject matter |
april
2006 -
"a little bird
told me" by alys paterson - this was an amazing
exhibtion - one of our best where the artist really made
the gallery her own. bad luck for you if you missed it!! |
march
2006 -
"Be wary by
Nature" by Camilla Engman - charming and sensitive
works with sparsely populated narratives that easily
navigate through various stylistic approaches- using
both paint and what
she calls ‘paper on paper work, because collage sounds too boring’ |
february
2006 -
Broken Threads was the first solo exhibition by Bristol based artist, Kirsty
Hall. Featuring a combination of sculpture, performance art and drawings,
Hall's work deals with issues of repetition, time, obsession and loss. Hall uses
everyday items like pins and string to make intricate, obsessive sculptures that
take hundreds of hours to make. |
january
2006 -
peskimo's monster
mash group show. exiting stuff!! people voted for their favourite monsters
and the winners of the different heats went on to semi-finals and the final in
london, the big smoke! (i think i got all that right - i'm not good with sports
terminology) |
november
- december 2005 -
who knows? maybe it was the best exhibition EVER! probably. |
october
2005 -
"Fall
Skull" by Kyle
Field (also known as the band "little wings")
- some amazing drawings - you should be sorry if you
missed this!
PLUS
'24
Frames a Second (Anniversary Show)'
the "here" anniversary show where all our favourite volunteers and
contributers put in an unnamed frame for exhibition and sale. |
september
2005 -
me and my monster by
gunilla jä hnichen was a series of spooky, almost
nightmarish encounters rendered
in paint. terrifying! |
august
2005-
fur
and feathers never tear by faythe levine was an exhibition
of beautiful felt pieces that hung on the wall, with
subjects from flying tigers and erupting volcanos to
more abstract pieces. |
july
2005 -
lumberjack lolitas
and an exercise into the depths of foolishness -
this was a mindblowing show that you'll be sorry if you
missed.... amanda's woodblock printed characters mixing
perfectly with bjørn's painting and screenprinting
on old bits of wood, paper and books. |
june
2005 -
knit one, build one -
this was a group exhibition featuring contemporary knitted
and crocheted sculptures inspired by architecture. From
entire buildings constructed in wool to tiny crocheted
details, this imaginative exhibition explored how we
interact with the buildings around us. |
may
2005 -
Emma
Caton- residual - resin tiles trapping
dirt from her life, wild and beautiful. |
april
2005 -
what the hell happened to april?? answers soon... |
march
2005 -
royal jelly
Paintings
on paper
Royal Jelly was a show united by a love of children’s books, pesky
cats and crafty goings on; combining paintings on paper by four young artists
living and working on opposing sides of America - Martina
Fugazzotto Evah
Fan Jeana
Sohn and Susie
Ghahremani
|
february
2005 -
bugbrand sound
show
tom bugs took over the gallery for two weeks to make a noise and a mess.
the gallery was the busiest we'd ever seen it. geeks. |
january
2005 -
stitch
or swallow - naughty
needles/sinister stitches
Nine female artists give traditional needle crafts a biting contemporary
edge through their use of subversive subject matter. Showing the work of
Dana Carlson, Rikki Endsley, Jenny Hart, Julie Jackson, Whitney Lee, Allyson
Mitchell, Katherine Shaughnessy and Breanne Trammell many of whom exhibited
in the uk for the first time with this show. |
december
2004 -
we had a rest. it was christmas. we were tired. fuck off. |
november
2004 -
javan
langa exhibition - more details to follow
|
october
2004 -
"you
are here" an exhibition of work by the here volunteers.
Artists/volunteers who exhibited included Camilla Stacey,
Jane Porter, Ben O'Leary, Lisa Cupcake, Tom Cops, Aaron
Sewards, Joff Winterhart, Lady Lucy, Tomasin Cuthbert,
Sofia Gradin, Fránçois
and others... |
september
2004 -
we took a much needed rest from shows to repaint
the walls and have a general tidy up down there before
the onset of our autumn shows |
august
2004 -
Mum
is Dead
an installation by Italian artist Lilith
Travaglini
lilth took over the basement for a month and transformed
it using stuff she'd lugged all the way from italy with
her! she also contributed art to the new vase video while
she was here! |
july 2004
-
Bump
- Pete Lloyd, Nathan Cleave, Barnaby Wills, Dan Washbrook.
4 recent graduates of uwe in their first group show, with
new and, in some cases, site-specific work.
|
june 2004
-
HOUNDS
TOOTH AND HERRING BONE - small creatures on parade!
coming
somewhat full circle, we again exhibited the work of some
of our favourite californians (see our opening "from
the west coast to the west country" show). alika
cooper, marci
washington and kelly
jones all showed work in this show.
deth
p. sun, also from california, hada show called "this
is heavenly" running at the same time. apart from
kelly, they all made the trip over from oakland, california
for the show and were super sweet and nice... they're welcome
back anytime. there will be photos posted here soon. we
(heart) oakland! |
may
2004
-
mr. jago and china mike
took over the basement with new work on silk and cardboard
for most of the month. their show was called "chester
tester pot." towards the end of the month, tomasin
cuthbert took over the basement, her show was called "minny
stynker" and she also ran puppetry workshops. while
she was down there, we had liz
avery showing some more work upstairs. |
april
2004
-
how
to make friends and draw magpies
whenever
you draw in public, people come over to see what you’re
doing. It’s the easiest way to meet new people. for
this show the here gallery commissioned drawings of magpies
made in public places by artists and non-artists alike.
instructions for how to draw a magpie were given out so
folks could draw them wherever they were, whatever their
ability. |
march 2004
-
we
had an exhibition by a group of gloucestershire based
artists who work under the name ilka.
the show was called "out of the blue" (although
i doubt they're refering to the debbie gibson album...)
and was currated by kirsty hall, featuring work from
at
least 8 different artists.
upstairs emily williams showedg 8 square prints. the
originals were done by pouring white liquid enamel onto
copper sheeting,
then scratching into the surface and firing in a kiln
and deliberately overcooked to give a greeny palette
-
crikey! |
february
2004
-
michal and rita cupid
took over the downstairs gallery for an exhibition of photographs
and photocopies in frames and pasted straight onto the wall!
the opening night had a llve performance by k records underground
legend calvin johnson! |
january 2004
-
a rare uk showing of sixteen jad
fair papercuts. this was an amazing opportunity to see
and own a piece of art by a true genius. (some still available
to buy, just ask)
we (heart) jad fair.
liz avery also showed work downstairs in the basement. she
is a local artist who paints super sized playpeople, glossy
superheroes and bikini wearing cowgirls. |
december
2003 -
affordable
art fair
(by that we mean things mostly under £50)
we
had work from - adam
faraday, liz biggin, melanie ward, andrew mania, lady
lucy, fawn gehweiler,
caroline hwang, imi manfe, ghostboy, cat large and tom marshman,
samantha taylor, jess lait, clair nichols, saelee
oh, gabbrielle gamboa, milk kitten, donna wilson, gavin
alexander, elin
thomas and others.... |
november
2003 -
mixed
media, textiles and painting by elin
thomas and work from a variety
of artists working in the textiles meduim |
october
2003 -
ladyfest retrospective and johnny
cash memorial |
september
2003 -
we were closed, so we were mostly
showing ladders, paint, wood, stuff in boxes and a lack
of organisation |
august
2003 -
"from
the west coast to the west country" exhibition
during ladyfest. we showed work from fawn e. gehweiler,
saelee
oh, gabby gamboa and emily ryan |
