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EXHIBITIONS
STATE OF THE ART Summer Blues, Rainmaker Gallery, until 28 August Rainmaker Gallery is celebrating 30 years of exhibiting contemporary Native American art in the UK. Throughout the year, the gallery is showcasing artworks selected in accordance with seasonal colour palettes, including as many artists from the three decades as possible. The current exhibition emphasises ‘summer blues’, bringing together paintings, drawings, original prints and fine art photography by more than a dozen artists from diverse tribal nations. • rainmakerart.co.uk Image: To Greet the Summer Storms by Shonto Begay (Diné)
Clifton Arts, 11th Annual Open Summer Exhibition, Victoria Methodist Church, 1 Whiteladies Road, until 15 August After a year’s forced absence Clifton Arts is back, showing 400-plus pieces of art. This will be Bristol’s largest art exhibition since the pandemic broke in 2020. “We think this is the first major exhibition for the public to enjoy in Bristol for at least 15 months,” says exhibition organiser Anne Elliott. “We are so happy that we can get back to business, and show off the art of professionals and amateurs alike.” On show will be paintings, drawings and sculptures selected by a distinguished independent panel of judges. For more information visit Clifton Arts’ website. • cliftonarts.co.uk Image: Bodmin by Julie Mainstone (prize-winning selectors choice of 2019)
Summer Exhibition, Lime Tree Gallery, until 31 August Lime Tree Gallery has a wide-ranging, strong and vibrant exhibition for the summer months, featuring work by many favourite gallery artists including Chris Brooks, John Evans, Phil Johns, Alan James McLeod, Luis Morris, Pete Newell, Philip Richardson, Alexander Robb and Elsa Taylor. Ranging from the traditional to the modern, the figurative to the abstract, the painterly exhibition is complemented by a fine collection of glass, ceramics, sculpture
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by Helen Sinclair as well as jewellery by Moa Smith. Lime Tree Gallery specialises in contemporary fine art and glass, and holds regular exhibitions throughout the year, each one accompanied by a fully illustrated web catalogue. The team have a particular love of contemporary Scottish artists, and will always have a varied selection of their art on show. • limetreegallery.com Image: Blossom by Elsa Taylor
