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DRAWING TOGETHER

Sat 8th Oct – Wed 12th Oct: 11am – 4pm Centrespace Gallery, Bristol

A series of drawings unfold into conversations. Two groups of people were introduced at a distance; they started to exchange drawings and become aquainted without meeting face to face.

http://centrespacegallery.com/index.php/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,53/id,36/view,details/


Spike Island Exhibition Tour Sat Oct 1st 2pm

This series of tours offers an artist’s perspective on each of the current exhibitions. The speakers are studio holders at Spike Island who discuss the shows with reference to his or her own interests and work. October’s tour features artist Éilis Kirby discussing Again, A Time Machine.

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/tour/october

Éilis Kirby was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and moved to the UK from Ireland in 1988. Having completed a BA in Fine Art at UWE in 1996 and an MA in Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts in 2008, Kirby now lives and works in Bristol and has a studio at Spike Island where she runs EAK Press. Her work, which includes artists’ books, utilises found images, texts and collage and can be found in several collections including Tate Modern, The National Irish Visual Arts Library and University College London. She has also participated in several international collaborative exhibitions and in artists’ book fairs in the UK and abroad.

The Blank Canvas Project: Fusion

EAK was asked by a group of enterprising Photographic Art students from Newport University to take part in a collaborative project in order to help raise money for their end of year publication. Invitees were asked to be the instigator of,  or the responder to, an A3 digital canvas (EAK was a ‘responder’). The resulting images will be sold as limited edition of prints (edition of 5) for £40 each on the 16th of May at the Cardiff Arts Institute - alongside other goodies.

Check it out here:

http://photoartauction.wordpress.com/

BABE - Bristol Artists’ Book Event

Arnolfini, Bristol

Sat 30 April and Sun 1 May

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/951

Spike Island Open Studios

Spike Island Studios, Bristol

Saturday 30 April - Monday 2 May

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/openstudios2011