Bristol reopening 2021

 

I've been neglecting this blog... Too much work!

I haven't been able to write short pieces this month because I'm working on a longer project, as a researcher, for a British television series.

But I've tried to make the most of our gorgeous city, Bristol, all open for the spring. I've seen two marvellous films at the Watershed cinema, 'Nomadland' and 'After Love', and been back to Bristol Museum for the Photo Festival and of course Arnolfini. 

Here are a few photos:

Bristol Musum

'Island Life

and

'James Barnor - Ghanaian Modernist'

exhibitions

Watershed Cinema

Arnolfini Gallery

And there is much more to come!

I'll go back to M Shed to see the display of the toppled Colston Statue (read here for the whole story), and for the Vanguard Exhibition on the history of street art in Bristol and beyond, from 26 June.

Summer at Arnolfini also promise to be unforgettable! See below: 

COMING SOON TO ARNOLFINI

Our Summer exhibition features new work from the pioneering painter of contemporary art Sir Frank Bowling. Our second major international artist shows will be Bristol born photographer Stephen Gill this Autumn, where we'll be hosting the first extensive retrospective of his career.

FRANK BOWLING AND STEPHEN GILL

El Dorado with my shirt collar, Frank Bowling 2019 Photo by Angus Mill Land of Many Waters, a major exhibition with pioneering painter Sir Frank Bowling, OBE RA., will feature new and recent work, as Bowling continues his exploration and experimentation with the painted surface that has marked his extraordinary career. This show will be Bowling’s first museum exhibition since his widely applauded and long overdue retrospective at Tate Britain in 2019 which cemented his reputation as a ‘modern master’.  3 July to 26 September 2021 Hackney Flowers 2004 - 2007 © Stephen Gill In Autumn 2021 Arnolfini will celebrate over thirty years of extraordinary practice from Bristol-born photographer Stephen Gill, drawing together new previously un-exhibited work, alongside works from other iconic series. The exhibition will explore Gill’s rich sense of place, leading us through the flea markets and towpaths of Hackney Wick in London, to his current rural surroundings amidst the Swedish countryside. 16 October 2021 to 16 January 2022