A PICTURE OF HEALTH | WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION

Saturday, 19th December 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 12:00 to 18:00 | The exhibition is currently closed due to lockdown but do check our online offerings. | Free

A group exhibition of contemporary women photographers featuring autobiographical perspectives and social commentaries on the wider society, that aims to de-stigmatise subjects around mental health and create an environment in which people can have open conversations about their wellbeing. A Picture of Health includes work by Heather Agyepong, Sonia Boyce, Eliza Hatch, Susan Hiller, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Anna Fox, Rosy Martin, Polly Penrose, Jo Spence, and Paloma Tendero.

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Exhibitions

JO SPENCE : FROM FAIRY TALES TO PHOTOTHERAPY | PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION

Saturday, 19th December 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 12:00 to 18:00 | The exhibition is currently closed due to lockdown but do check our online offerings. | Free

Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence’s works in the world, From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and wellbeing, celebrating her work as a photo therapist in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma, reflecting on key moments in her past.

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BRIDGES FOR COMMUNITIES | THE PATH LEADS TO BRISTOL

Saturday, 19th December 2020 to Friday, 30th April 2021, 12:00 to 18:00 | The exhibition is currently closed due to lockdown but do check our online offerings. | Free

Arnolfini approached Bridges for Communities to create a local response to Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition The Path and take part in a photoshoot exploring themes of culture, identity and story.

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Exhibitions

A Picture of Health | Look at this skin…it keeps changing

Saturday, 19th December 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 11:00 to 17:00 | Dates subject to Government guidance around Covid. | Free entry. Exhibition slots must be booked in advance. The exhibition is currently closed due to lockdown.

A Picture of Health is accompanied by an artist film programme, Look at this skin… it keeps changing, exploring experiences of wellness, recovery and ageing. The sensory nature of these films presents yet another interpretation of what ‘a picture of health’ might look like.

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Exhibitions

Frank Bowling

Saturday, 3rd July 2021 to Sunday, 26th September 2021, 12:00 to 17:00

Arnolfini are delighted to announce a major exhibition with pioneering painter Sir Frank Bowling featuring new and recent work, as Frank continues his exploration and experimentation with the painted surface that has marked his extraordinary career.

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Exhibitions

Stephen Gill

Saturday, 16th October 2021 to Sunday, 16th January 2022, 12:00 to 17:00

In Autumn 2021 Arnolfini will be celebrating over thirty years of extraordinary practice from Bristol-born photographer Stephen Gill, drawing together new previously un-exhibited work, alongside works from other iconic series.

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What's On

WE ARE FAMILY | Let’s Make Art : Word Art

Monday, 22nd February 2021 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 08:00 to 18:00 | Free

Let’s Make Art present a creative workshop for families using letters and words.

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Art in the City
TALKS | ART IN THE CITY – ISSY WOOD

Wednesday, 24th February 2021, 18:30 to 20:00 | £5.45 (including booking fee)

Art in the City is a series of international artist’s talks co-presented by Fine Art UWE Bristol and Arnolfini. Issy Wood’s paintings suggest a stream of consciousness hiding something foreboding, a medieval current creeping into the millennial, and a psyche trying to consolidate what it means to be objectified, what is an object, and how is value attributed.

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Workshops
Rising Arts Agency | Wellbeing Workshops for Young People and Adults

Friday, 12th February 2021 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 08:00 to 18:00 | Free

Responding to Arnolfini’s current exhibitions four Young Creatives from Rising Arts Agency will share their creative wellbeing practices to help you through the half term and beyond.

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Family
We are Family | Let’s Make Art : Drawing With Sound

Wednesday, 3rd February 2021 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 08:00 to 18:00 | Free

Drawing With Sound explores how you can create pictures from the sounds we hear in and around our home.

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Arnolfini at 60
A Year in the Life of a Field

Monday, 1st March 2021 to Thursday, 23rd December 2021, 08:00 to 18:00

We invited artist Sam Francis to investigate A Year In the Life of a Field, 40 years on from Lizzie Cox’s original multi-disciplinary project of the same name.

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Exhibitions
The Great Big Art Exhibition

Thursday, 28th January 2021 to Wednesday, 31st March 2021, 10:30 to 18:00

Take part in The Great Big Art Exhibition 2021!

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Family
THE BIG DRAW | A PICTURE OF HEALTH AND JO SPENCE

Saturday, 19th December 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 12:00 to 17:00 | Free online and when the exhibitions reopen

As part of The Big Draw campaign, UWE drawing and print students designed a range of free creative activities inspired by our current exhibitions, A Picture of Health and Jo Spence: From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy.

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Family
We Are Family | Let’s Make Art online tutorials: Hidden Self

Friday, 18th December 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 08:00 to 18:00 | Free

Let’s Make Art, guide children in making a standing cardboard portrait of themselves with an interior scene as well as an outward showing persona.

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Art in the City
TALKS | ART IN THE CITY – Heather Agyepong

Wednesday, 11th November 2020 to Sunday, 30th May 2021, 19:00 to 20:00

Art in the City is a series of international artist’s talks co-presented by Fine Art UWE Bristol and Arnolfini. Heather Agyepong is a visual artist, performer/actor and maker whose work is included in A Picture of Health | Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection.

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