Date:
Event Title: The Divine Consent of Unexpected Union
Name of Act: R. X. HODGSON
Venue: Various venues throughout the Fringe
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: This entry, from self-described "durational
concept facilitator" Hodgson, would have gone into the separate
(visual) arts programme were it not for the strict request imposed by the
artist. In his/her application Hodgson suggested this project appear in
the main programme because: "to find the limits of art you would
first have to find both edges of what was thinkable and to do that you
would have to think what cannot be thought.." Throughout Bath Fringe,
23 envelopes will be circulated around and amongst shops, cafes, pubs and
telephone boxes every 5 days; May 26th, Wed 31st, Mon 5th June. Each of
the 69 envelopes will contain information and instructions. Those who find
them have a choice to make regarding an event that will happen in a very
public space sometime between 10am and 3pm, and sometime between 7th and
10th June. The participants of this (re) union can expect to transcend the
mediocrity of urban constraints. "a very dark but thrillingly
illuminating agenda...." - Frieze Magazine
Disabled Access: False
Price and Booking:
Date:
Event Title: AN INVITATION TO BROWSE
Name of Act: Bill Drummond
Venue: GREEN PARK BRASSERIE
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: AN INVITATION TO BROWSE (the twelve-inch version of
45) The twelve-inch version of 45 is Penkiln Burn book three. There are
only five copies of it. There are many thousand copies of the seven inch
version now available through the regular outlets. The twelve-inch
contains 147,067 words, the seven-inch only 111,536. The twelve inch
contains more stories. It is bigger, fatter and better and not one of the
five copies are for sale. Both the twelve and seven-inch versions of 45
were written by Bill Drummond. Pencils, pens and crayons will be provided
for you to add your own initialled and dated notes in the margins of these
twelve-inchers. Friday 26 May - Saturday 10 June 12 noon - 7pm
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: free
Date:
Event Title: Piss R. O. Artist
Name of Act: KRIS HOLLIDAY
Venue: McCABES PUB, LANSDOWN ROAD
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Is he a painter who can drink or a drinker who can
paint? Really original Ad-Art on walls. Other acrylic executions in
basement studio of in-house pub artist Kris Holliday.
Disabled Access: False
Price and Booking: Free
Date:
Event Title: Spring Exhibition
Name of Act: DIANE PIPER, HAZEL MCLEAN & JAY MCINTYRE
Venue: BATH CENTRAL LIBRARY, THE PODIUM
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: A mixed media show by three self taught artists who
have come together to offer a vibrant spring exhibition. Wednesday 31 May
- Saturday 10 June
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: Free
Date:
Event Title: Be- Artifacts Vision 2001
Name of Act: BE-ARTIFACTS
Venue: ABBEY YARD
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Bath be-ware! Bath Vision 2001 is an architectural
nightmare about to happen. Be-Artifacts hit the streets to expose city
planners’ hidden agenda. What is a Romadome? Is the Royal Crescent
suitable for an Andy Warhol museum? Be-Artifacts will be out and about
asking you! Throughout the festival
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: Free
Date:
Event Title: A Chip Off The Old Block
Name of Act: WILLARD WIGAN
Venue: KINGSTON PARADE ( outside Tourist Information
Office)
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Top award winning and internationally acclaimed
British sculptor, Willard Wigan, will carve one of his amazing life-like
sculptures in public. Over a five day period Willard will turn a tree
trunk into a well known local personality - who will it be? First he will
chainsaw the trunk into the overall shape and then, with mallet and
chisel, “chip away” until he or she emerges - staggering to watch!
Friday 2 June - Tuesday 6 June: 10am - 6pm
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: Free
Date:
Event Title: The Resurrection Of Christ
Name of Act: LAURENCE TINDALL
Venue: ABBEY VESTRY COURTYARD, BATH ABBEY
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Local artist, Laurence Tindall, has been specially
commissioned by the Friends of Bath Abbey to sculpt this piece publicly.
Any who wish may follow the progress as Laurence guides abstract lumps of
stone to a risen Christ.
Disabled Access: False
Price and Booking: free
Date:
Event Title: ART FOR GOD’S SAKE EXHIBITION
Name of Act: Exhibiting Arts - Charlie Makesey & Mark
Cripps
Venue: THE CRYPT, ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH, BROAD STREET
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Charlie Makesey has successfully exhibited in New
York, Edinburgh and London amongst other places. His career began in 1983
and his desire remains; to challenge the misconceptions of Christianity
and to express its centrality in his life. Mark Cripps returns this year,
his work speaks volumes and for itself. 10.30am - 4pm
Disabled Access: False
Price and Booking: Free
Date:
Event Title: Worksight
Name of Act: BANA PROJECT
Venue: MILSOM STREET, BATH
Doors Open:
Show Starts:
Blurb: Worksight involves a team of professional artists to
work individually, on-sight, in live shop windows for 5 days. Each artist
will create a piece of contemporary art; the theme of the work will be
generated by the contents of the store and the artists’ own practice,
This will take place along Milsom Street - Starbucks, Jollys, Waterstones,
RSVP*, Bella Pasta, Jackpot and Haagen Dazs.
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: Free
Date: Every Day of the Fringe, May 26-June 10
Event Title: Fringe Art Central
Venue: 24 Milsom Street
Blurb: The old bank last used as the Bath Environment Centre from about 1995 on the corner with George Street - original marble fireplaces and high ornate ceilings. A centrepiece on the ground floor is the beautifully carved wooden counter. The ground floor is lit by an attractive skylight and large windows. Over 42 artists will be exhibiting on all 5 levels made available to us by B&NES. There will be an eclectic mix of contemporary art forms : paintings, lithographs, collages, textile banners, ceramics, sculpture, video works and installations.
In the basement will be images in a metal box by Brian Gibson with a 'Questioning the value of memory' piece in one of the old bank vaults. Also in the vaults, using their special resonance, will be Jamie Worsfold with two installation pieces, using video and film projection. Verena Langloh's video installation challenges with Reality: deconstructing the construction of our being'.
The ground floor has a range of works to greet the visitor into this august building. Pascale's vibrant works will greet the eye early on. Jacquie Shane has a series of richly ornamented sculptures which have been described as 'industrial organic with a fantasy element'. There is a mixed showing of contemporary ceramics by Kelly Allsopp [one of the Outline Group] and Denise Roberts. Alison Harper and Kamina Walton both represent work done in conjunction with the Bath FestivalsTrust on the Babel Project - an online response by children and students to ideas generated during the Bath Literature Festival. Alison also has work inspired by a visit to India.
There are large oil paintings by Helen Jury, Nicola Foster and Jo Freeman. Linda Holmqvist works with oil on wood, canvas and cloth creating vibrant abstract paintings. Annabel Barton has prints and sculptural ceramics. Victoria Pond shows portraits. Julie Smith has a range of abstract works in the old office. In the hallway and all the way up the staircase will be Polly Gabriel's collages based on the last 1000 days of the Millennium.
The whole of the 1st floor will be taken up by the Bread and Butter Collective. This group of focused artists has a cheerful and eclectic exhibition which has its very own flavour. Many of them exhibited last year at the successful FringeArt Central at 30 Milsom Street. They have a web-site where further information can be called up on www.godfat.co.uk
The second floor features artists that tend to work work in large format. Emma Allen-Curry shows a calm and still place with her paintings of cloudscapes. Jo Freeman depicts landscapes using either charcoal or oils and also shows lithographs. Rosemary Martin works in acrylic on canvas or board exploring the images which microscopic life and connective tissue present in an abstract sense. Nicola Foster shows silk-screen printed textiles and classical columns on calico. Jo Butts works with mixed media and ink on aluminium panels.
In a little room which we've come to refer to as the linen cupboard, Liz Biggin and Anny Colgan have designed an installation which they title Domestic Blitz. It reflects their outlook on millennial experience and proffers a distillation of the hopes and dreams of a post modern feminist. They plan three performance times to complement their exhibition on Sat 27th May, Thur 1st and Sat 10th June, all from 2-4 pm
On the third floor can be found the Sands Creative, a group comprising father and three creative sons. They plan a range of exhibitions in three separate rooms. They have their own variations on a theme, while sharing a common thread. Spencer [senior] has a love of landscape and woodland and shows paintings inspired by rocks, trees and wildlife. Corin features the Mexican jungle as well as local landscape which he uses as metaphors for observing the continual abstractions of the mind. Ashley carves in English woods, depicting angels, beasts and busts. Mark's works are functional objects presented with colour, style and entertainment.
An Egyptian god of the afterlife will be shown in a domestic setting, also on the top floor. This is the intriguing Anubis, Other World Tour, created by Heather Tweed.
In addition to this large exhibition there are many other events which are drawn together in a listings leaflet obtainable from Visual Arts, 103 Walcot Street, BA1 5BW, and can also be found at sources all over town eg the library, the Fringe Office behind the Bell, Window Arts Centre, 24 Milsom Street, galleries and shops. Send an A4 SAE, please.
Watch out for an installation in the old Corn Street Mission opposite Avon Street Car Park. It will be called Surveillent Engine. It is a wooden cylinder with 4 separate compartments for viewers to enter; contains monitor and security camera which will enable people to see someone next to them but not adjacent to them. Gerard Whiteley and Harry Hobbs are planning this unusual structure which will be 24'x8'x8' and should be a very thought -provoking work to visit in the calm setting of the old People's Mission.
Some artists will be using shop windows to exhibit works. At 13 Manvers Street Mark Sands will have examples of his functional art in the form of screens, fireguards, cartouche hangings and paintings. At 3 Edgar Buildings Victoria Pond will have a large work in charcoal overlaid with thinned oil paint. At 1 Saville Row can be found Julia Atkinson's 'Super Real' : large photographs of small sections of surfaces.
Disabled Access: False
Price and Booking: free!
Date: Saturdays
Event Title: FRINGE STUDIO TOURS
Blurb: The Art Tours will be run on Saturdays only this year and will be using the Community transport Bus which has facilities for disabled passengers. Wheelchairs need to be booked a day in advance. These 2-hour tours will depart from Queen Square outside the Francis Hotel at 10.30 am and 2pm. Book or turn up on spec. Anne Morrison co-ordinates. [Contact 01225-833084]
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: free!
Date: 04/06/2000
Event Title: 9TH BATH FRINGE ART FAIR
Name of Act:
Venue: Green Park Station
Doors Open:
Show Starts: 10:00:00
Blurb: Something for everyone at this year’s enlarged
feast of original art. An opportunity to buy painting, ceramics, prints
and cards direct from over 50 artists exhibiting beneath a beautiful
vaulted glass roof. 10am-5pm. Some live entertainment and an adjoining
brasserie help create a perfect day out.
Disabled Access: True
Price and Booking: free
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