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EXHIBITIONS
STATE OF THE ART Bharti Kher: The Body is a Place, Arnolfini, until 29 January Arnolfini welcomes you to explore the alchemical practice of internationally renowned artist Bharti Kher, in a major solo exhibition of drawing, sculpture, and the spaces that lie between. Including new and previously unseen works created during a residencies in Somerset in 2017 and 2019, The Body is a Place also features Kher’s monumental bindi drawings, the playful and political drawing-based installation Links in a Chain, sculptures made from found objects and plaster casts, and a new encounter with her site-specific bindi work Virus; part of a 30-year project begun by the artist in 2010. The Body is a Place is accompanied by a programme of film, music, talks and workshops for all ages, as well as a new publication available through Arnolfini Bookshop. • arnolfini.org.uk; 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA Image: Body Incantatory 21, 2019. © Bharti Kher. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo Dominic Brown Photography
For Winter: a mixed show by gallery artists, Clifton Contemporary Art, 25 November – 10 January Throughout midwinter the gallery will be filled with an inspiring variety of original paintings, printwork and sculpture, fine ceramics and handcrafted jewellery. The mixed show will encompass 100 million-year-old stone carved into new life, timeless limited edition bronzes, cutting edge digital prints, deeply atmospheric landscapes, light filled still life compositions, elegantly simple porcelain bowls and vases, silver, gold and semi-precious stones, crafted and combined with freshness and ingenuity. For winter, the galley is celebrating creative individuality and its ability to move and surprise you.
The winter exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery showcases Pacific Northwest Coast ‘formline’ serigraphs from Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and Coast Salish print makers Peter and Araquin Boome. Also featured is a glorious formline wolf painting by Alaskan artist Crystal Worl (Tlingit and Athabascan), minimalist serigraphs by Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne) and fine art photographic portraiture from the amazing Cara Romero (Chemehuevi). Each work of art has been selected for a seasonal palette of red, black and white.
• cliftoncontemporaryart.co.uk; 25 Portland Street, Clifton, BS8 4JB
• rainmakerart.co.uk; 140 Whiteladies Road, BS8 2RS
Image: Dahlias with Lace Tablecloth by Lynne Cartlidge
34 THE BRISTOL MAGAZINE
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DECEMBER 2022
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No 217
Serigraphs from the Pacific Northwest, Rainmaker Gallery, until January 2023
Image: Eagle & Killer Whale, limited edition serigraph by Preston Singletary
