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ART | EXHIBITIONS
ARTS & EXHIBITIONS
Bath Society of Artists 116th Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery, Bath BA2 4AT, until 20 November Now in its 116th year, this hugely popular exhibition showcases the best of the region’s artistic talent. Any artist aged 18 or over was able to submit work for possible selection, and all of the artworks are for sale. The exhibits include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and mixed media. Bath Society of Artists was founded in 1904 with 26 members. It has grown over the years to a membership of about 120 diverse artists. Many distinguished 20th-century painters have exhibited with the Society including Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer, Gilbert Spencer, Patrick Heron, Mary Fedden, William Scott and Howard Hodgkin.
Rebecca Campbell, Akiko Hirai and Linda Felcey, Beaux Arts Bath, 12-13 York Street, Bath BA1 1NG During October and November, Beaux Arts will be showing Still • Life, a new collection of oil paintings by Rebecca Campbell. These life-enhancing paintings burst with iridescent colour and life, and are an homage to Persian miniature paintings, with their reverence for nature, architecture and gardens. Also on show will be new still lifes by Linda Felcey. Her delicate oils celebrate the prosaic but transient qualities of objects – seasonal blossom, or ceramic vessels, captured in changing light. Ceramics are by the renowned London-based Japanese artist Akiko Hirai.
victoriagal.org.uk Image: Orchard by Tim Carroll
Image: Finding Paradise by Rebecca Campbell
beauxartsbath.co.uk
Shooting Stars: Carinthia West, Britain and America in the 1970s, American Museum & Gardens, Bath BA2 7BD, until 31 October Carinthia West’s intimate photographs of rock and film stars of the 1970s in America – and in particular on the glorious beaches of Malibu in California – present an upbeat and buoyant view of the decade that should remind us of the outstanding music and the great design of this much-maligned period. Carinthia West’s fascinating photographs demonstrate that the 1970s was a decade of bright colours, fun, and self-expression. americanmuseum.org
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Image: Pink Floyd Animals shoot, 1976
