CITY ARTS

STATE OF THEART

After much anticipation, our beloved art galleries and museums are beginning to reopen their doors. So rally round and sample the delights of an exhibition both in person and online after a three-month pause

WALLER&WOOD

One Two Five Box Road, Bath BA1 7LR Tel: 07803 033629 / 07840 420784 Web: wallerandwood.co.uk

ONLINE EXHIBITION

Open now Waller&Wood’s new online exhibition features the work of Christina Romero Cross. Christina spent her early years living Sonoma Iby Christina Romero Cross in a houseboat on the San Francisco Bay before settling in Bodmin, where she lives now. Her memory of her time spent on the water, as well as her experience of living on the moors, has influenced her wor k. Wi th miles of views, she says, “the horizon is the prominent feature of the landscape and the light is more brooding and bruised but no less significant than the rippling sunshine of my childhood.”

Waller&Wood’s gallery is no longer based in central Bath, but Carole Waller’s hand-painted and handmade clothing and Gary Wood’s statement pots can be viewed at One Two Five Box Road, by appointment.

AMERICAN MUSEUM & GARDENS

Claverton Manor, Bath BA2 7BD Open: 10am–5pm, Tuesday–Sunday Tel: 01225 460503 Web: americanmuseum.org

NIGHT AND DAY: 1930s FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHS

From July The American Museum & Gardens has launched one of its most glamourous exhibition s yet. The Night and Day e xhibition was organised by the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London and takes visitors on a journey through sumptuous city tableaux. Visitors can expect to see a range of glamorous eveningwear and floor-length gowns created in satins, velvets and crepes. As ‘Pure Hollywood’: part of the opening, the museum will also A floor-length host music featuring local jazz musicians, provide entertainment from The Natural gown featured in the exhibtion Th eatre Company and hand out A merican-style treats. As well as the museum’s special exhibition, the New American Garden, the Mount Vernon Garden, and the Garden Café (takeaway only) have also reopened for business. The museum’s main collection inside Claverton Manor will be opening in due course.

ART GALLERY SW

Tel: 07941 459384 Web: artgallerysw.co.uk

ONLINE BATH ART EXHIBITION

Open now The Art Gallery SW’s online exhibition is raising money to support Children’s Hospice South West. The new art show features over 60 established and emerging local artists who are committed to supporting the charity. The exhibition has a plethora of artwork available to purchase, with an impressive array of subjects on display, including figurative, still life, landscapes, and seascapes. The exhibition will donate 25 per cent of the art sold to the hospice.

THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM

Great Pulteney Street, Bath Tel: 01225 388 569 Web: holburne.org

GRAYSON PERRY: THE PRE-THERAPY YEARS

Until January 2021 One of the Holburne’s most eagerly anticipated shows of the year, this follows a successful public appeal to source Perry’s early ceramic pieces, made between 1982 and the mid-1990s. Here are a broad range of Perry’s early works, including pieces from the artist’s own coll ection and works n ot seen publicly before. For his legions of fans, The Pre-Therapy Years will bring a new perspective to the 2003 Turner Prizewinner’s influential and inspiring outlook.

Essex Plate by Grayson Perry