Artbar 15th December (Next Tuesday), it's the Artbar Christmas Quiz! Get a team together and win some prizes..

Artbar 20th October: Geoff Dunlop, filmaker..

Next Artbar Tuesday 15th September, Tom Trevor, Artistic Director Dojima Biennale, Japan (and former Director of Arnolfini) discusses his work as a curator of international projects.

Tom Trevor, Artistic Director of the current 4th Dojima River Biennale in Japan talks about this in the context of his work as a curator of international projects. Trevor is a curator and writer, based in Bristol. He is currently Artistic Director of the 4^th Dojima River Biennale, Take Me To The River, in Osaka, Japan, as well as Guest Curator of Music for Museums at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Curator of the 1^st ARoS Triennale for Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture, in Denmark. Other projects in 2015 include commissions by Do Ho Suh for Bristol Museum and by John Akomfrah for All the World’s Futures at the Venice Biennale. 

Recent exhibitions include Black Sun at the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, and Joelle Tuerlinckx’ Wo(r)(l)d in Progress? at Arnolfini, Bristol (in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich). 

He was formerly Director of Arnolfini (2005-13), Associate Curator of the Art Fund International collection (2007-12) and Director of Spacex (1999-2005), in the UK.

 The biennale website is www.dojimariver.com, or there is more info on my blog: www.tomtrevor.net.

Next Artbar: Tuesday 19th May, The Art of Drumming - A talk by Clive Deamer from the band Get The Blessing

February ARTBAR: Tuesday 17th February, Karen MacKinnon, Artistic Director, Artes Mundi

ARTBAR October: Danielle Arnaud, London based independent curator and gallerist discusses her career.

ARTBAR 18th March, Paul McGowan talks about his work and recent collaboration with Warchild...

Next Tuesday evening's Artbar will be fascinating discussion on the subversive work of the artist Paul McGowan...

 

For the past 3 years Paul McGowan has been 100% committed to his Collaboration with War Child UK. Titled 'Trigger Finger' the work draws from the everyday situations the charity is confronted with on the ground. The Exhibition was launched at the Drang Gallery in October 2013. Paul has previously collaborated with Legendary American guitarist Gary Lucas who worked with Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley.

 

22 Bones, Paul McGowan

 

In December 2013 along with an impressive assemblage of today’s leading Artists including Inkie, Banksy, My dog Sighs, Elmo Hood, Sheppard Fairy, Nick Walker, and many more. Paul's work was exhibited in the Houses of Parliament in conjunction with a DJ Saved My Life and London West Bank Gallery for Smile Britannia. Paul is currently focused on an Experimental audio Visual experience that will bring people together in a different way and the work will involve the production of two audio albums one of the albums Paul will collaborate with Bath Based DJ & Producer Jamie Tack and will be available in all formats. Ronnie Tee of vision artists will choose who and how the second album is produced and the project is shaping up to be ready for release in time for the festival season 2015.

 

Paul McGowan

 

Terror Chamber, Paul McGowan

 

ARTBAR Christmas Quiz!...

Tonight from 8 PM the ARTBAR Christmas Quiz 2013!!! So, bring a team and be the ARTBAR Champions of 2013!

Also some of the guests for ARTBAR 2014 are being unveiled...

and drink and be merry or have a famous Raven pie and chips and meet and greet the team and other Artbarians at the bar upstairs...

ARTBAR September: Discussion on William Scott 'Simplicity and Subject'

After the showing of the film 'Every Picture Tells a Story' on William Scott by James Scott at the Victoria Art Gallery, we continued the evening upstairs at The Raven for the inaugural ARTBAR..and so started a fascinating evening with Professor Mike Tooby and the Curator of the Victoria Art Gallery, Jon Bennington,  discussing their current exhibition at Victoria Art Gallery William Scott 'Simplicity and Subject' with and special guest, Robert Scott, with contributions from the artist John Eaves and questions with much discussion form the audience, a special evening...



ARTBAR inaugural evening

Professor Mike Tooby starts discussion
on William Scott 'Simplicity and Subject'

John Bennington, Curator, Victoria Art Gallery
steals the microphone

A captivated audience

 

Robert Scott enlightens us with memories of his father

John Eaves discusses his memories of William Scott as a tutor at Bath Academy of Art

        

Robert Scott, looking back..

All photos thanks to Nick Smith

ARTBAR 2: Keith Harrison in Conversation, 22nd October 2013

Question: When did you last hear Victoria, Albert, Napalm, Death and Bexhill in the same sentence?...

 

Answer: When discussing the work of Jerwood Prize winning artist Keith Harrison! At ARTBAR October Keith shall be in conversation about his residency and disruptions’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum last winter and his forthcoming collaborative projects.

 

Keith Harrison 'Blue Monday'

 

Keith Harrison 'Grand'



Keith Harrison 'London Orbital'




 

Next ARTBAR date: 26 November 2013 with Chris Stevens, Tate Curator of Displays in conversation with Professor Mike Tooby