Art
FAB 4
- Artists
- Andrew Burns Colwill, Julian Quaye, Thomas Dowdeswell, Jimmer Willmott
Group show featuring four Bristol artists whose profiles are all on the rise.
So, who’s on the roster? First up, anyone who found themselves gazing up at the walls of BS3 during this year’s Upfest will recognise the work of veteran Bristol painter Andrew Burns Colwill (Statue of Austerity, pictured) from his stunning wall piece The Gift, on North Street near the Black Cat pub.
Elsewhere among the quartet, Julian Quaye is known for his quirky anthropomorphic figures; Jimmer Willmott has just exhibited alongside Andrew and Julian in the 50/50 exhibition at The Crow’s Nest Gallery London; and the powerful, almost Cubist abstracts of Thomas Dowdeswell have been known to Bristol art-lovers for some years now.
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Curator Auntie G (aka Gilli Kane), from the Bristol’s online Kane Gallery, tell us her thinking behind this show. “I have chosen four Bristol artists who, in their different ways, have something to say about modern society. I find the work of all four fascinating. Whether they come from contemporary art, pop surrealism, or street art, their work says something: it has a message and it deserves thought and attention.”
Sept 10-Nov 4, Bocabar, 9.30am-11pm daily (1am Fri & Sat / 10.30pm Sun). For more info, visit www.the-kane.gallery/pages/fab-4
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