ARTS AND EXHIBITIONS

ARTS & EXHIBITIONS

The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath

holburne.org People Make Museums, until 2 May

A celebration of the importance of people in museums, who charge them with stories, memories, and ways of seeing.

Mick Peter: Old Ghosts, until 15 May Old Ghosts takes a wry and affectionate look at the idea of history as an industry. In several surprising interventions, inside and outside the Holburne Museum, visitors will encounter amusing tableaux which appear to be cartoons that have come to life.

The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, until 8 May Come face-to-face with the five Tudor monarchs –Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I and other significant figures of the time (see also page 38)

Winter Exhibition, Woolverton Gallery, Bath BA2 7RH, Until 30 March

The Woolverton Gallery welcomes art lovers to its Winter Exhibition featuring the work of the gallery’s six resident artists. You’ll find wonderful new creations from Ray Jones, Lynn Baxter, Brian Baxter, Amanda Bee, Alex Howell and David Wilkey. bathartsales.com

Stall Street Rendezvous by David Wilkie

Image by Ray Jones

Launch Exhibition, Frome Gallery,

Frome BA11 1EE, from 5 February

The Frome Gallery at 22 Christchurch

Street, West Frome BA11 1EE is a new gallery from Bath Art Sales featuring works from the six artists exhibiting at the

Woolverton Gallery in a beautiful contemporary environment.

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Wildscreen’s Community Exhibition; Protecting our Planet, Central Gallery, Royal United Hospitals Bath, until 21 April

Bristol-based charity Wildscreen are featuring a series of vibrant photographs from indigenous people across the world focusing on the theme of ‘Community’. Curated in collaboration with If Not Us Then Who, their network of artists have provided their powerful and emotive work, with photography from Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá, Elizabeth Swanson Andi, Irati Dojura, Morena Pérez Joachin and Pablo Franceschi and Adrielle Priscila da Silva Tavares.

Please check current restrictions before visiting the RUH. artatruh.org

Impressions on Paper David Simon Contemporary 37 High Street, Castle Cary BA7 7AW 4 February –1 March

The gallery’s annual exhibition dedicated to works on paper coincides with a major exhibition of Francis Bacon: Man & Beast at the Royal Academy. Here is a fine collection of original signed works on paper by Francis Bacon. These are exhibited alongside work by Lucien Freud, David Hockney RA, Henry Moore, John Nash, Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland, figurative engravings by Maynard Hales, and still life and interiors by Steven Hubbard.

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Triptych Inspired by Oresteia of Aeschylus, by Francis Bacon

Myths and Monsters Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Until 27 February

This colourful celebration of children’s book illustration is a follow-up to the 2017 blockbuster Here Be Dragons exhibition. Myths and Monsters will link the worlds of literature, art and myth with some of the very best (and worst) you could expect to meet. Encounter characters from the Gruffalo to the Iron Man and fearsome dragons to the Little Ogre. There will be a chance for young visitors to get involved by making their own ‘monster in a jar’, which will be displayed as part of the show. victoriagal.org.uk