Karen Radford

We are very pleased to announce the recent addition of work by printmaker Karen Radford to our inventory.



Based in Kent, Karen is a graduate from the Royal College of Art, her signed limited edition pieces are priced from just £30.

Checkout Art Market

Checkout is a new monthly art market at Central-Reservation, Stokes Croft, Bristol (opposite Pieminster). It will be offering the chance to buy the work of artists, designers, and makers from around the UK; prints, artists books, zines, and one off artworks.


Here Gallery will be setting up shop alongside 20 other stalls on Sunday 11th April 12-5pm. Ffi visit Central Reservation

Picture Shows: Rob Hunter & Jon McNaught

Picture Shows is a new exhibition by Rob Hunter and Jon McNaught at Here Gallery, Bristol, running from 8th April - 8th May.



Jon McNaught graduated from Bristol UWE’s Illustration degree in 2008. He was a part of SNAP Studio before leaving to form Doppkit Collective Studio along with Robert Hunter and other Bristol illustrators. Recently Jon has created illustrations for two books by author Sonya Hartnett and will releasing his own book through Nobrow press entitled Birchfield Close on April 21st.

Jon’s work can be melancholy in the best possible way. Making you realize that you are not alone in the appreciation of tiny details of memory; he creates prints, books, and comic strips observing quiet moments and places, focusing on beauty in secluded corners.



Robert Hunter also graduated from UWE in 2008, he uses the idea of memory in his work. I his book People I Remember, Places I Don’t Robert takes a representation of a memory (a photograph) and by separating people from place, reorders it according to his own internal logic. Father and brothers are torn from the scene of a shooting range and transplanted upon a tranquil sea of white nothingness. In the words of Fred Madison, the doomed protagonist of David Lynch’s Lost Highway "I like to remember things my own way; Not necessarily the way they happened"

'Across the Way' opens Thursday 4th March




Adam Hancher, Jack Hudson, Luke Jinks and Owen Gatley are Bristol-based illustrators who are about to graduate from UWE's Illustration Degree. They all share a style of work which is narrative driven, drawing inspiration from traditional folklore and mythology, and placing them in a modern context. Working with a variety of mediums, realising their ideas in 2D, 3D and animation whilst retaining a handmade feel. The artists use of limited palettes evokes atmospheres from nature and the seasons.

Preview Thursday 4th March, 7.00 - 9.00pm
exhibition continues until 3rd April

BEN NEWMAN book launch & signing





Ben Newman's debut comic book 'Ouroboros' published by Nobrow.

Ben Newman brings the reader on a tale of action and adventure that juxtaposes brutal violence with ecstatic comic exuberance. Where our protagonist fights a band of rogue, thuggish, drug peddling perverts after they murder his newly beloved mermaid.

Ben will be signing copies on Tuesday the 2nd March from 7.30pm until 9pm, so come
along and say hi!

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Land & Sky - Christopher Bettig & Lizzy Stewart
Opening reception 21st January 7.00 - 9.00pm
exhibition continues until 27th February

For the start of 2010 we have a nice, gentle show to help ease you all into the New Year. Two artists, both from far afield coming together in the gallery to show new works and hopefully collaborate.

Christopher Bettig was born and raised in Connecticut, and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he graduated with a BFA in painting. His design studio, The Mountain Label, is based in Los Angeles, where Christopher currently lives.

Bettig's work focuses on geometry and natural forms but has a good sense of humour, naïveté and playfulness whilst also recalling late 70’s cartoons and design. His long list of clients, includes Fila, Converse, Urban Outfitters, and Poketo. Chris has also shown around the country, adorning gallery walls in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and most recently, Giant Robot in LA and a solo exhibition in New York at Scoop NYC gallery.

Lizzy Stewart is originally from Devon but has been living in Edinburgh where she graduated with a first class degree in illustration from the Edinburgh College of Art. She is a hardworking lady and as one half of Sing Statistics with the artist Jez Burrows recently published the book ‘We Are The Friction’; an anthology of illustration and short fiction. On her own she has produced work for such clients as Analogue Books, Tiny Showcase, Woodpigeon, End of the Road Records, The Guardian, Howies and more.

Lizzy’s work suggests a retro-graded Victorian folk art, as if, over 100 years ago, society folk and poor folk alike had sat for an illustrator instead of a photographer. Intricate trees and buildings sit side by side with great bears and bearded explorers all sucked into and filtered through Lizzy’s great prism. But that sounds silly; “It’s about bears. Mainly it’s about bears” says lizzy.

Chris and Lizzy are coming to Bristol to set up the show and will be in attendance at the opening.

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Opening hours for December
Mon - Sat: 10.30 am - 6.30pm
Sun: 12.00am - 4.00pm
Xmas Eve: 10.30am - 2.30pm
We will then be closed until Tuesday 29th Dec.

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - Xmas group exhibition
lots of fabulous gift ideas, original artwork and prints

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plus, vintage inspired soft toys by Alice Apple (UK)



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