Mythical Creatures exhibition

For their latest exhibition, illustration collective Girls Who Draw will be unleashing an array of fabulous beasts and beings to fill the windows and walls of Here Gallery. There will be an opening reception on Saturday 9th February from 1-4pm, and the exhibition runs until Saturday 6th April.

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The show accompanies Mythical Creatures, their fourth limited edition postcard book, and will include a selection of prints and original artwork from the book as well as 3D work, comics, and new pieces created especially for the gallery.

The artists include;
Kristyna Baczynski (who designed the flyer), Mina Braun, Helen Entwisle, Lee May Foster-Wilson, Ruth Green, Kate Hindley, Yee Ting Kuit, Christina Lamb, Sarah Lippett, Esther McManus, Beth Morrison, and Karoline Rerrie, who has also curated the show.

Sarah Knight 'Nature and the North'

1st - 24th November 2012
Preview Thursday 1st November 7 - 9pm

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A welcome return to Sarah, who first exhibited at Here Gallery in 2007 shortly afer graduating. She has been illustrating and printing ever since, and launched her own card and gift business Stormy Knight in 2010.

"Nature and the North is Sarah Knight's latest collection of Nordic inspired prints and illustrations, featuring a concoction of polar bears, mountains, stuffed deer heads, Arctic adventures and an abundance of log cabins. Make sure you bring a woolly jumper..."

Zanne Andrea - 'Two Minutes to Midnight'

12 October - 26 October 2012 


Preview Thursday 11 October 7 - 9pm
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Here Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by emerging contemporary artist Zanne Andrea. Andrea will present a new installation of work incorporating a variety of sculptural objects and images made from fabric, digital print, collage, found materials, and wall projections. She will create the installation using an active process of assemblage, layering and editing her selections to reveal connections and construct narratives, intentionally highlighting the theatricality of both objects and gallery.

In Two Minutes to Midnight Zanne Andrea addresses the notion of a nearing Doomsday, an apocalyptic countdown to unimaginable catastrophic events. A starting point for this exhibition is The Doomsday Clock, used by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since 1947 to measure how close the human race is to destroying the world. This idea of a figurative midnight mirrors much of the anxiety felt during the atomic age and the Cold War, but is also relevant to the more recent anxiety of living in a post 9/11 world with terrorism threats, economies on the brink of collapse, uprisings, protests, world disasters and nuclear meltdowns.

Two Minutes to Midnight coincides exactly with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a nearly catastrophic nuclear standoff that lasted 13 days between the Soviet Union and The USA, which occurred in October 1962. This exhibition also happens in the months preceding what is known as the end of the Mayan calendar, 21 December 2012, and to some has become yet another predictive date of destruction and/or renewal of the human race.

Zanne Andrea is an American artist currently based in Bristol, England. In 2011 she received a BA (hons) Fine Art from The University of the West of England and has received a variety of awards, including a prize in the Motorcade/Flashparade National Open Competition 2011. This is her first solo exhibition.

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'Lost Plot'

7 September - 6th October
'Lost Plot' - group show by Jack Teagle, Liam Barrett, Rose Robbins and Simon Daly

Preview Thursday 6th September 7-9pm https://www.facebook.com/events/306289422802840/

A freak tidalwave has left the contents of a nonexistent attic washed up on the gallery walls...

Four artists based in the south west of England take over Here Gallery . Together they have created a parallel culture,  fragments of stories and illustrated memorabilia that combine elements of the familiar and unfamiliar.

Jack Teagle is a freelance illustrator, comic artist and painter, his most recent comic "Fight 2!" was published by Nobrow Press. Jack joined forces with fellow illustrator Liam Barrett earlier this year, to exhibit as part of the Pick Me Up graphic arts fair held at Somerset House, London.

Rose Robbins self-publishes comics as one half of Often and Mistakes, she was recently awarded "Best New Blood" at D&AD 2012. Simon Daly has also self-published his comics, including fantastical tales of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire. Simon's experience in a variety of filmmaking roles, from music videos to software development, has led to collaborations with several artists, most recently assisting Liam and Rose in animating their work.

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Jack Teagle
Liam Barrett
Rose Robbins
Simon Daly

Holly Drewett 'Invisible Cities'

Originally from Cornwall, Holly studied a BA in Fine Arts at University College Falmouth. Specialising in printmaking she continued her practice at North Star Print Studios, Brighton before embarking on her current residency at South Hill Park Art Centre, Bracknell.  Holly combines photographic and drawn elements with a range printmaking of techniques including etching, silk screen, monotype and relief to produce her work.

Opening Thursday 5th July, 7-9pm.

Architectural study is something that remains integral to Holly’s practice, whether to focus on line, space, form or a sense of nostalgia that a building or place might create. Visiting different cities she documents her experiences through drawing and photographs. Deconstructing and fragmenting source imagery, regenerating these pieces to create a new unified space. A place personal to her experience there, a description of the landscape and everything it contains..Fascinated by the qualities of digital and traditional printmaking techniques and how they can be used in conjunction she integrates the two ways of working. Allowing these process’ to overlap Holly allows unexpected results to become starting points for new prints and the work starts to regenerate itself once more in a continual process.

"This exhibition explores themes of journey, landscape, architecture and sense of place. Using a range of printmaking techniques, I break down components of source imagery, both drawn and photographic to reconstruct spaces, generating an impression of that place. Heavily influenced by India and Nepal, the exhibition celebrates the rich culture and colour that is so prominent in these countries. At the heart of this body of work is printmaking, intrigued by both traditional and digital techniques the processes are allowed to overlap and the results are used to develop the work. "

Exhibition continues until 3rd August

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To Bristol with Love

7th - 31st June 2012
To Bristol with Love is a group show organised by Robert Rubbish of Le Gun , featuring work from the London based collective alongside Heretic Printmakers and other friends. All have created original postcard sized artworks, priced at just £10.
Artists include LE GUN, Heretic print makers ,Alex Wright, Stephanie von Reiswitz, Hannah Bays, Neal Fox, Robert Rubbish, Andrew James Jones, Ivor Tiger Jones, Kate McMorrine...

Paul Blakemore: Ronnie

Paul Blakemore - Ronnie,
May 3rd to 31st 
part of Bristol Festival of Photography

A photographic exhibition inspired by the wordplay and double entendre of comedian Ronnie Barker.

2012 Exhibition Schedule

April

Adam Higton and Marcus Walters

May

Bristol Festival of Photography

June

Le Gun and Heretic Printmakers

July

Holly Drewett

September

Jack Teagle, Rose Robbins, Simon Daly and friends

October

Zanne Andrea

November

Sarah Knight

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Tom Cops - 'Midwest' exhibition and book launch

Midwest is the first solo exhibition from photographer, musician and artist Tom Cops, showing medium format photographs of people and places in the American Midwest.


In August 2010, Tom travelled around the American Midwest for three weeks with his band My Two Toms playing as many inappropriate venues as possible. During the tour he attempted to photograph everyone he met, as well as the places he passed through.

Looking for odd details in the landscape, his colour photographs tell the story of the small towns of Montana, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming, while his black & white portraits tell us about the people that live there.

To accompany the exhibition, Betty & Dupree will be publishing a collection of these photographs, also called “MIDWEST”, with a foreword by acclaimed Minnesotan blues musician Charlie Parr and watercolour chapter pages by Jerwood Drawing Prize nominated artist Aaron Sewards.

The exhibition opens Thursday 27th October, 7-9pm, with live music from My Two Toms,
and continues until 19th November.

This also coincides with a two night residency from Charlie Parr at the Cube Microplex:
CHARLIE PARR with support from My Two Toms
Cube Microplex, Dove Street, Bristol
Sat 5th + Sun 6th November,2011
8pm, advance tickets £9.00 (+booking fee) per night
FFI: www.cubecinema.com

Aine Venables - Replaced, From Hay to Here

An exhibition of recent work by Aine Venables exploring ideas of belonging, identity and location.

Aine uses maps, dust covers and vintage graphics alongside traditional and digital printmaking techniques to create this series of exciting and individual mixed media pieces.

Artist's reception: Friday 9th September, 7.00 - 9.00pm
Join us for oppourtunity to meet the artist, and share some converstaion over a glass of wine.

16th August - 24th September

Naomi Bell - Ratio

Bell graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010 with a First Class Honours Degree in Sculpture, winning the School’s Chairman’s Medal and nominated for the prestigious Newbery medal. She has since shown work as part of the RSA New Contemporaries at the Royal Scottish Academy, and been published in the 2011 Catlin Guide.

This exhibition will combine printed works with sculptural objects, where reactive surfaces make subtle references to themselves as well as the architecture and forms of the gallery itself.

Preview: 14th July, exhibition continues until 13th August

Coloured Matter - Helen Shaddock

Helen Shaddock is a Glasgow based artist who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. She has exhibited in national and international exhibitions, and her work belongs to a number of public and private collections.

Playfulness lies at the centre of Coloured Matter, together with order, control and process. Despite following a systematic approach, unpredictable results occur throughout the casting process. As the plaster splashes and dribbles, layers merge to create interesting formal relationships; Shaddock’s colourful constructions aim to “capture a sense of the wonderment children experience from the simplest of things.”

Preview: Thursday 9th June 7pm
exhibition continues until 9th July

Julia McKinlay - Hostile Places

Preview Thusrday 14th April, 7-9pm

Drawings and photographs from museums and research expeditions form the starting point for Julia's work, which explores the subjects of the animal, geology, landscape in the form of sculpture and drawings.

Exhibition continues until 7th May

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Peter Chasseaud - Creative Letterpress & Typography

17th March - 9th April

As founder of The Tom Paine Printing Press, Peter Chasseaud is an artist who is at the forefront of British creative letterpress and typography. His show at Here Gallery comprises a related group of 10 limited edition, box-framed typographical prints, along with unframed prints from these and other editions.

Also available are Peter’s poetic photobooks, and a range of small letterpress items which he has printed on his hand-presses.

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Christine McLoughlin - Surface Tensions

17th February - 12th March

Christine McLoughlin is an artist with an Irish heritage originally from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Graduating in Sculpture and Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art in 2009, she has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. Surface Tensions will be her first exhibition in Bristol.

“I find meaning in the ephemeral and sensual in life. I love to translate the parallels I notice between the way materials are moved and changed by nature, and the way people respond to shapes, spaces and fabrics, into intense experiences, which reveal a refinement of my hidden feelings.”

Surface Tensions will draw on the beauty found in water. For Christine, the simple and pure chemistry of seeing how full of water a bowl can be and the majesty of the paper clip not sinking in it has a parallel with a first love relationship where you reveal more and more of yourself and trust you won’t ruin the bond you’re building together.

The basement Here Gallery will be converted into an interaction between the viewer’s touch and Christine’s material creations. We will be drawn into her intimate installation and have space to personally reflect.

preview, Thursday 17th February, from 8pm

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Lydia Shirreff - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Lydia Shirreff is British/Japanese artist living in the UK - focusing on illustration but also installation and sculpture.

“My passion is knowledge. I am endlessly curious about the shape and form of naturally occurring objects: animal, vegetable or mineral. My work so far has been concerned with studying and interpreting natural patterns and forms - I treat my practice as an ongoing documentation of nature.”

Lydia’s drawing creates an outlet for this insatiable fascination. The outcome is largely unplanned and encompasses natural history, geology, fossils, structural dynamics and scientific diagrams. The objects and patterns that inhabit these drawings aren’t copies, they are detailed studies, distillations, extracts of what she finds most interesting.

“I have created installations (a collection of polyhedral objects ) that take this idea further and examine the exploratory response that viewing art and viewing natural history have in common. Through these installations and drawings I am attempting to pass on my own wonder as well as create new experiences.”

Preview Thursday 20th January, 7.00 - 9.00pm
Exhibition open continues until 12th February

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Julianna Swaney, Tad Carpenter, Sally Elford

30th November - 24th December

A group show full of prints and small scale original works, plus other artist-made goods.
All especially selected to make ideal gifts, and affordably priced.
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Featured Artists:

Tad Carpenter is an American illustrator and printmaker, who has designed several children's books and also teaches at the University of Kansas, Missouri. His character based work is bursting with colour and cheerfulness.

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Sally Elford lives in Brighton and works as a freelance illustrator and printmaker. Her popular prints work combines a contemporary graphic styling with traditional subjects, often from nature. She produces her own silk screen prints in small editions.

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Julianna Swaney an artist living in Portland, Oregon, she works primarily with pencil and watercolor, and takes inspiration from fairy tales, antique ephemera and postcards, Victorian hair weaving, bird song, nursery rhymes, lace and nature.

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Extended opening hours for December
Monday - Saturday: 10.30am - 6.30pm
Sunday: 12.00pm - 4.00pm
Christmas Eve: 10.30am - 2.30pm

Call for Submissions - CLOSED

We are currently accepting proposals for 2011.

We welcome submissions from groups or individuals working in fine art, illustration and photography.

Please submit a written proposal for consideration by post or email, including;

(1) Contact details
(2) A one-page summary describing your work, and the nature of the proposed exhibition.
(3) 6 - 10 images of your work, stating media and dimensions.


Due to the high volume of submissions received, only succesful applicants will be contacted. We do not enter into correspondence as to why an application is unsuccessful.

Aaron Sewards - A Distant Mirror

A Distant Mirror - works on paper by Bristol based artist Aaron Sewards, who was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Aaron has produced a print edition for Tiny Showcase, his artwork has been published by Australian arts journal The Lifted Brow, online magazine Said the Grammaphone, and also graces several record sleeves.

Exhibition continues to 20th November.

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Mimi Leung - How Are You?

How Are You? is a collection of new work from Mimi Leung.

Mimi Leung was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the UK. Since graduating from the RCA in 2007 Mimi's engagingly colourful and playful images have captured the attention of many. She is currently represented by Big Active.

After two years of back-to-back exhibitions and illustration work, Mimi relocated to the desert lands of and around Alice Springs in January 2010. After a hard few months of struggling to make ends meet, working dingy cafe jobs and pulling pints at a back-packers' bar, she slowly gathered enough materials to set up a basic silkscreen studio at home.

This show features work from her first foray into stencil silkscreen prints as well as the brightly coloured gouache on paper works which she has become known for.

Exhibition runs 9th September to 9th October.

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