Arnolfini, Bristol’s international centre for contemporary arts, is delighted to announce an ambitious 2025 exhibition programme, featuring four extraordinary artists – Barbara Walker, Sahara Longe, Dana Awartani and Emma Talbot – whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, each addressing complex questions about the world in which we live.
Images:
Barbara Walker End of the Affair, 2023. Graphite, charcoal, pastel and conte on paper. Photo by Chris Keenan @primeobjective.
Sahara Longe Bad Dreams (after Ferdinand Hodler), 2024. Signed LONGE (lower right) Oil on linen 74 . x 88 ⅝ in. (190 x 225 cm) (T0014783) © Sahara Longe.
Dana Awartani Come, let me heal your wounds. Let me mend your broken bones, 2024
Emma Talbot In the end, the beginning, 2023 Installation view, Kesselhaus, KINDL. © Emma Talbot. Photo Jens Ziehe.
About the Artist
Barbara Walker
Barbara Walker is a British artist described by art historian Eddie Chambers as “one of the most talented, productive and committed artists of her generation.” Her first major survey exhibition is shown at Arnolfini, Bristol in Spring 2025.
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Sahara Longe is a British figurative painter who lives and works in London. She will mount her first institutional solo exhibition at Arnolfini in Bristol, Summer 2025: 28 June to 28 September 2025.
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Dana Awartani engages in critical and contemporary reinterpretations of the forms, techniques, concepts and spatial constructs that shape Middle Eastern culture.
Read MoreEmma Talbot
Emma Talbot works in drawing, painting, animation and sculpture articulating internal narratives as visual poems or associative ruminations, based on her own experience, memories and psychological projections.
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