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ART | EXHIBITIONS
STATE OF THE ART
Gallery and Online Exhibition: Safari Paintings from Wild Animal Kingdom of Africa, 5 June – 17 July
Spring 2021, Rainmaker Gallery, until 18 June Rainmaker Gallery is celebrating 30 years of exhibiting contemporary Native American art. Throughout the year, the gallery will be showing artworks selected in accordance with seasonal colour palettes, including as many artists from the three decades as possible. The spring exhibition is filled with joyful spring greens, pinks, yellows. rainmakerart.co.uk Image: Wakeah by Cara Romero has recently been acquired by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art, NY) and is also on show in Rainmaker Gallery’s spring 2021 exhibition.
East Lambrook Manor Gardens is hosting watercolour artist and traveller Moish Sokal for his 26th annual summer exhibition. Sokal realised a lifelong dream of visiting Africa and found it as exciting as he had expected. His safari trips covered the Kruger National Park (South Africa), Victoria Falls, (Zimbabwe), and Chobe Wildlife Park (Botswana). Africa’s wildlife has inspired Sokal to make a stunning series of paintings, which form the body of the exhibition. Sokal’s work was set to appear in an exhibition last year but the event was cancelled due to Covid. Now, Sokal has not only added more to this body of African-inspired work but has painted a series inspired by his lockdown walks from winter into spring around his lovely Somerset village. moishsokal.co.uk
Grey Areas: Jessie Edwards-Thomas, Arnolfini, throughout June Jessie Edwards-Thomas has co-designed and co-produced Grey Areas, a photographic dialogue with five individuals with complex needs who are currently within or have experienced the ‘homelessness pathway’ in Bristol. The work was created during the winter of 20/21, the year of the pandemic; when our basic needs for shelter and safety were highlighted across the nation. Our concerns were rooted in the question ‘what does home mean to our sense of wellbeing?’ What is continuing to happen to our city spaces which is pushing people further and further away, physically, mentally and socially? Grey Areas reflects the impact our physical spaces have upon our mental spaces. arnolfini.org.uk
34 THE BRISTOL MAGAZINE
Image by Jessie Edwards-Thomas
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JUNE 2021
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No 199
Image: Wrestling Practice by MoishSokal
