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galleries,ARTISTS&EXHIBITIONS GALLERY PROFILE: FIZZ GALLERY Now in its seventh year Fizz Gallery is firmly on the map as one of the best contemporary galleries in the area. Alongside established favourites is an ever-changing collection of artists, designers and makers meaning there’s always something new to see. If you don’t know the gallery, you’re in for a treat. You’ll find a carefully selected array of art pieces with something to suit every budget. It’s obvious from the moment you arrive that this gallery isn’t typical of the white walls and ‘hush hush’ often associated with galleries – it’s refreshingly relaxed, with a friendly atmosphere where everyone is welcome. And it’s clear from the way that everything is displayed that the gallery workers know a thing or two about interiors as well as art and framing. Carefully and skillfully put together using home furnishings, the displays suggest how paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, wood, etc, might be shown in your own home. All the home furnishings are for sale too, including beautifully restored antique chairs with contemporary fabrics that sit beside the stunning artworks. So, if you want to mix old and new you’re also in the right place for good advice. What this gallery has achieved is rare indeed and is credit to the combination of skills that are those of co-owners Sandy Prater and Fenella Sandford. If you haven’t visited Fizz before, it’s well worth the 20 minute drive from Bristol. Fizz Gallery, 65a Hill Road, Clevedon. Tel: 01275 341141 www.fizzgallery.co.uk
Rebecca Dymond, French Fisherman
EXHIBITION: MUSEUM SHOW PART 2 Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol. Tel: 0117 917 2300 www.arnolfini.org.uk
Until 19 February
ONE TO WATCH.... Up and coming painter Rebecca Dymond will be exhibiting work at the Grant Bradley Gallery in Bedminster this month. As a young and extremely talented artist, Rebecca is quickly becoming more recognised, having been shortlisted out of 20,000 people from around the world to display one of her paintings in the Saatchi Gallery in London. Rebecca’s representational portraits are beautifully painted on a large scale, allowing the paintings and the subjects within them to possess a bold presence and status. Don’t miss this exhibition, Rebecca is one to watch out for in the art world.
The second instalment of this major survey of museums created by artists features, among others, The Museum of Forgotten History, which consists of remnants of a possible future past. All the items in the collection are misinterpretations, or false pieces of the puzzle, filling the missing links that come about due to the constant evolution of history. Also showing in the exhibition is The Museum of American Art which charts the dominance of American art and ideologies from the 50s and 60s in Europe. Opening on 3 March, Arnolfini presents Shilpa Gupta’s first major solo exhibition in the UK, which includes a major installation called Singing Cloud, an amorphous cluster of 4000 black microphones suspended from the ceiling. February also sees some invigorating live art and dance, with Darkin Ensemble’s riotous DisGo (10 & 11 February) and the return of Bristol Live Open Platform (25 February), presenting some of the most exciting new, emerging performance from Bristol’s thriving live art community. Shilpa Gupta, Singing Cloud
For further information visit: wwwgrantbradleygallery.co.uk or tel: 0117 9637 673
EXHIBITION: TEN The Glass Room Colston Hall, Bristol. Open Monday – Friday, 8am-11pm and Saturday, 9am-10pm.
Until 25 February
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An exhibition of a new series of paintings, photographs and animations from Bristol artists Joan Wilson and Arril Johnson. Joan Wilson, Other Skies
Paul Jenkins, Stretching Cat
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