EVENTS, TALKS, PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS, MUSIC AND INSTALLATION
See website for the full programme
Arnolfini's exhibitions will be returning soon. Meanwhile, we have a full programme of events and performances in our theatre and other spaces.
Please see our website to find out what's on: www.arnolfini.org.uk

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Jan+Feb

THE PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD 2018
Sep 28 - Dec 30, 2018
The very best of young & emerging visual artists in the South Coast.

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SERENA KORDA : THE BELL TREE
Sep 8, 2018 - Jul 28, 2019
Bluecoat is delighted to be working with artist Serena Korda and Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme connecting people to places through contemporary art.
Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories.
Set in Speke Hall’s ancient woodlands and grounds, The Bell Tree draws on the hall’s hidden history. Korda reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition, including underexplored feminist narratives or ‘herstories’ and alternative histories of folklore and witchcraft. The public commission is at Speke Hall, with a smaller element installed in Bluecoat's garden.
Speke Hall is free to visit with a National Trust Membership.

MATTHEW CORNFORD AND JOHN BECK: THE ART SCHOOLS OF NORTH WEST ENGLAND
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

JADE MONTSERRAT : INSTITUTING CARE
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

JOSHUA HENDERSON & VERONICA WATSON: STUDIO ME
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

BLUE ROOM AT TEN
Dec 1, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019
Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project celebrates ten years of creativity with an exhibition created for the anniversary. Inspired by images from the project’s extensive photographic archive, Blue Room artists have collaborated with Louise Waller and Alice Odgers from Baltic Clay to create a collection of ceramics which reference Bluecoat potter Julia Carter Preston (1926 - 2012), exploring her sgraffito technique. The exhibition also features screen prints created at Bluecoat Print Studio in collaboration with artist Becky Peach. Images and films about Blue Room and Julia Carter Preston are on our My Bluecoat archive website (mybluecoat.org.uk). Blue Room at Ten is part of DaDaFest International 2018.

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THE SNOWMAN™
Jul 20, 2017 - Jan 6, 2019
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Raymond Briggs’ much loved classic picture book, come and discover the magic in this exhibition of the original illustrations.
 
In 1982 The Snowman was adapted for the screen and some of the original hand-drawn cels, celluloid sheets used for traditional animation, are also on display.

QUEER LOOKS
30 June 2018 to Summer 2019
This fascinating display of outfits and oral histories from LGBTQ individuals from Sussex, from the 1950s to the present day, looks at how individuals construct identities, both personal and collective, through dress.
Local LGBTQ communities have informed the content of this display, including the comedian Zoe Lyons, journalist Sophie Cook and trans campaigner Fox Fisher.

NATIONAL GALLERY MASTERPIECE TOUR : HOLBEIN
Oct 13, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019
A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is one of Hans Holbein the Younger’s earliest English portraits and it is one of his most engaging and beautiful works. This touching portrait holds many secrets to decode. Alongside this 16th Century Masterpiece, the functions and meanings of portraiture from the period will be explored through a selection of works from our own collection.

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EDUARDO PAOLOZZI
Oct 26, 2018 - Jan 13, 2019
General Dynamic F.U.N. - screenprints and photolithographs from the pop art pioneer.

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A TALE OF MOTHER’S BONES
Oct 6, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019
GRACE PAILTHORPE, REUBEN MEDNIKOFF AND THE BIRTH OF PSYCHOREALISM.

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ORLA KIELY : A LIFE IN PATTERN
Oct 30, 2018 - Jan 5, 2019
This exhibition at East GalleryNUA offers a snapshot of Kiely’s design ethos, here embodied in a display of one hundred Kiely handbags from across the years.

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THIS IS THE GALLERY AND THE GALLERY IS MANY THINGS X
Oct 6 - Dec 22, 2018 FINAL WEEK
Ten years after the opening show at Eastside Projects, a new exhibition of birth, rebirth and evolution. Artists include Lady Skollie, Alice Channer, Libita Clayton, Grace Ndiritu – COVERSLUT©, Tabita Rezaire, Samara Scott, Kelly Large. Evening Events: 5 Oct/2 Nov/7 Dec
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MARK ESSEN : BUILD A WALL
Dec 8 - 22, 2018 FINAL WEEK
Mark Essen is working with homeless and refugee communities in Birmingham in his studio, Modern Clay, learning how to make bricks. The bricks will then be used to build a wall in Eastside Projects with a local social enterprise building company.

3-PHASE. MARK ESSEN : BUILD A WALL
Dec 8, 2018 - Feb 23, 2019
Mark Essen is responding with different communities and people he encounters at his studio, Modern Clay, to create a barrier that talks about lives, invisible walls constructed by governments, maintained by factions of society and the media, prohibiting them from being part of wider society. Mark is learning how to make bricks which he hopes will go on to become small scale brick factory which could be run as a social enterprise building company. These bricks will then be used to build a wall in Eastside Projects. Research for the project was supported by New Art Gallery Walsall’s ‘The Building as Material’ artist’s residency earlier in 2018. On 22 September ESP members took part in a Brick Making Workshop with Mark in Modern Clay.

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BROKEN SYMMETRIES
Nov 22, 2018 - Mar 3, 2019
This major co-production is a partnership with Arts at CERN (the arts program of the largest particle physics laboratory in the world), FACT, Liverpool, and three other international art organisations: CCCB, Barcelona; le lieu unique, Nantes; and iMAL, Brussels. The show - which features ten new commissions by international artists working between the fields of art and science - opens at FACT, Liverpool in November 2018 before touring to Spain, France and Brussels.

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LINDSAY SEERS : EVERY THOUGHT THERE EVER WAS
Sep 8 - Dec 23, 2018 FINAL WEEK
Drawing on philosophical ideas and scientific research, this ambitious project by UK based artist Lindsay Seers considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the use of virtual reality.

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TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2018
Oct 22, 2018 - Jan 17, 2019
The annual touring exhibition includes a diverse selection of work that explores the nature, role and value of drawing in creative practice today.

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BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE
Sep 29, 2018 - Jan 1, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is proud to present its first solo exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere. Occupying the Rhoades and Bourgeois galleries, De Bruyckere will present two new bodies of work. The Belgian sculptor embraces a greater level of abstraction, while continuing to deploy her familiar sensitivity for materials. In the first body, wall-mounted works are composed of heavily weathered, semi-decomposed blankets built up in layers, suggesting warmth and protection, but also the vulnerable experiences that lead one to seek shelter. The second, floor-based sculptures, initially resemble piles of blankets, but on closer inspection are revealed to be stacked animal skins. Cast in grey wax, these powerful, organic works combine weight and delicacy to mesmerising effect. Both bodies of work continue to explore the theme of mortality that De Bruyckere has revisited throughout her career.

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CELEBRATING 300 YEARS OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
Jul 13, 2018 - Feb 25, 2019
2018 marks 300 years since the birth of Yorkshire-born Thomas Chippendale, one of Britain’s most eminent interior designers and cabinet makers.
 
To celebrate this significant anniversary, the gallery is working with one of the finest treasure houses in the North of England, Nostell Priory, a National Trust house with over 100 pieces of Chippendale furniture. The role of artists in influencing interiors will be explored through key loans from both collections and special commissions by contemporary artists.
 
Visitors will see modern and contemporary artworks in Nostell’s historic rooms and the most fashionable furniture of the 18th century within the 21st-century gallery spaces of The Hepworth Wake eld.

MODERN NATURE : BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION
Jul 13, 2018 - Apr 22, 2019
The Hyman Collection is the private collection of Claire and James Hyman. The Collection seeks to support and promote British photography through acquisitions, loans and education. In 2015 britishphotography.org was launched to provide online access to British photographs in the collection and as a learning resource to increase international awareness of British photography.

THE HEPWORTH PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE
Oct 26, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019
Named to honour the legacy of Wakefield-born artist, Barbara Hepworth, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture is the UK’s most significant prize to recognise the medium of sculpture.
 
Open to British or UK based artists of any age and at any stage in their career, the £30,000 biennial award celebrates artists who have made a significant contribution to sculpture in its broadest definition.
 
An exhibition of work by the five artists shortlisted for the prize will be presented.

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HAROON MIRZA : REALITY IS SOMEHOW WHAT WE EXPECT IT TO BE
Nov 30, 2018 - Feb 24, 2019
This is the most comprehensive exhibition of work by Haroon Mirza in the UK to date, filling Ikon’s exhibition spaces with moving imagery, sculptural installation and electronic sound. Involving smart sampling, sometimes through collaboration with other artists, Mirza’s practice overall is characterised by a knowing eclecticism and sheer physical impact. His (mis)understanding of the nature of human perception – of what and how we see and hear – is demonstrated and combined with countless possibilities of meaning, and so his aesthetic proposition is more to do with messages received than those transmitted, circumscribed by our constitutions, testing the limits of what we can experience and what we think we know.
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