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ARTS AND EXHIBITIONS
ARTS & EXHIBITIONS
The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath
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Rossetti’s Portraits, until 9 January A show of some of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s most iconic portrait artworks.
Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites, until 19 January Photographs by Sunil Gupta exploring the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Mick Peter: Old Ghosts, 14 January –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.
holburne.org
People Make Museums, 27 January –2 May A celebration of the importance of people in museums, who charge them with stories, memories, lived experience and ways of seeing.
Image by Ray Jones bathartsales.com
Winter Exhibition, Woolverton Gallery, Bath BA2 7RH, 2 January –30 March
The Woolverton Gallery is looking forward to welcoming art lovers to its Winter Exhibition featuring the work of the gallery’s six resident artists. You’ll find many wonderful new creations from Ray Jones, Lynn Baxter, Brian Baxter, Amanda Bee, Alex Howell and David Wilkey. Bath Art Sales has also announced the opening of its second gallery, The Frome Gallery at 22 Christchurch Street, West Frome BA11 1EE. The new gallery will feature additional works from the six artists above, in a beautiful contemporary environment.
Myths and Monsters Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Until 27 February 2022
This colourful celebration of children’s book illustration is a follow-up to 2017’s blockbuster Here Be Dragons exhibition. Myths and Monsters will once again link the worlds of literature, art and myth with some of the very best (and worst) you could expect to meet. Visitors will encounter characters from the Gruffalo to the Iron Man and fearsome dragons to the Little Ogre. Alongside the exhibition, 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.
Mixed Winter Exhibition David Simon Contemporary 37 High Street, Castle Cary BA7 7AW until 29 January
The popular Mixed Winter Exhibition includes paintings, ceramics and bronze sculpture by Daisy Cook, Julia Cooper, Isabel Coulton, Parastoo Ganjei, Andrew Lansley, Peter Lloyd-Jones, Mungo Powney, Yuta Segawa, David Ralph Simpson, Mike Service and Frances Watts. An eclectic feast of new work by gallery artists plus new invited artists.
davidsimoncontemporary.com
Image: Something About Nineveh by Mungo Powney
Vision of Narnia, Pop Up Exhibition at Milsom Place, Bath, until 30 January
Follow the paw prints to discover a vision of Narnia. A wondrous diorama created by Planet Gold Decor for Milsom Place will transport viewers into a magical world with a life-size lion and his faithful animal companions. Illuminated to bring the scene to life and spread some festive cheer, this other-worldly scene has to be seen to be believed. Open from 10am–5pm Monday to Saturday and 11–4pm Sunday.
milsomplace.co.uk
THE FROME GALLERY OPENS ON SATURDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2022 Christchurch Street West, BA11 1EE
FROME BY NIGHTBY RAY JONES STALL STREET RENDEZVOUS BY DAVID WILKEY
