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NOW THEN: Art in the Moment
In these turbulent times, when individuals are struggling to understand each other and
assumptions are easily made, what do we truly know? How do our thoughts shape reality?
Is our experience the same as that of others? Can we live in the present, and might we trust our intuition?
NOW THEN is a free exhibition co-curated by eight Bristol artists that seeks to open the
senses, to permit uncertainty and to wake up wonder…
• Simona Dlugosova’s quiet, durational performance Picking explores sensation and our reaction to materiality and being
• Jacob D’Silva’s Perpetual Polymorphism is a series of 12 intricate drawings, born out of an
immediate, intense, creative energy
• Alex Owen catches an abstract moment of colour mixing and movement in her process painting Embrace
• Patricia Crystal’s Let Me Tell You Something is an installation that reflects on the human spirit
and the narrative thread that shapes our lives
• Lucy Marshall captures a tender, idiosyncratic view of the everyday in The Sky Is an Artist, a
series of abstract photographs
• Elenya Knops’s multi-media installation Non-Sense burns holes in the petals of society’s self-obsession
• Jasmine Eckett’s Trinity is a monochrome mural that perfectly embodies the artist’s instinctive,
free-flowing approach
• Gaby Solly’s video installation When We Notice Why We Notice What considers shifting the emphasis of our ordinary, observational focus.
Visitors to NOW THEN will be invited to make their own Art in the Moment. A continuing, participative piece will develop over the course of the show as people respond to an arrangement left by the person
who came before…
March 22-24, preview Fri 6-9pm then Sat & Sun 12-4pm, 144 Wells Road, Totterdown, BS4 2AG.
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