An Audio Journey Through Time What would it be like to gently glide through the Somerset Levels in a canoe in the Iron Age? What bird and animal sounds would we hear. Well, there is no need to wonder any more. Joe Monkhouse, a sound special effects expert, has created a 10-minute video that transports...
Digital imagery & photography from Jason Dorley-Brown and Andrew Polson Although Jason and Andrew have spent much of their lives in Bath and have many mutual friends, it was only recently that they were introduced through their mutual love of photography. Jason then curated an exhibition of street photography images that Andrew took while visiting Tokyo for the Rugby World...
This month in the Jenyns Room we are displaying design-work created for the Institution by students currently studying on the MA Design course in Visual Communication at Bath School of Design. This is a multi-media exhibition of work created in response to the experience of following our Bath Discovery Trails app. Previous students of this course...
William Beckford (1760 - 1844) is not only remembered as the builder of the remarkable, now lost, Fonthill Abbey and Beckford’s Tower, Bath, but also for his influential art collection. Throughout his lifetime he created one of the greatest collections of European and East Asian Art, funded through his wealth from the transatlantic slave...
This event is organised by an external group, for further details please email BSA directly. A documentary on the artist Saied Dai, in conversation with the filmmaker and writer Jonathan Stedall, whilst sitting for his portrait. Filled with observation and insight, their dialogue explores the joys, vicissitudes, and paradoxes of the creative process. With contributions...
Monday 21 November, 10am - this talk has been POSTPONED and a new date will be announced soon. Please join us for wine & soft drinks from 7pm! American Museum and Gardens founder Dallas Pratt had a personal love of folk art - everyday art made by artists without formal academic training. It is unsurprising that...
A talk linked to the exhibition of fine art ceramics by Jan Byrne and paintings by Mark Thomas showing at BRLSI from 19 November until 1 December. Come and listen to both artists discuss what inspires their creativity and process during their exhibition. Jan Byrne’s work is mainly ceramic with many layers of decoration. In her...
This talk is organised by an external group, please email them directly for further details. Art critic Hettie Judah (The i, The Guardian, Apollo) presents a richly illustrated talk based on three essays from her new book Lapidarium. Through the realms of art, myth, geology, philosophy and power, the story of humanity can be told...
The pottery figures known as “Staffordshire” have little to do with the fine china and porcelain that made the six smoky towns of Stoke on Trent famous throughout the world. Seen on their own, many of the coloured Staffordshire figures are primitive, clumsily modelled and crudely coloured. Seen together they make an alluring Dickensian universe,...
This talk is organised by an external group, please see the BSA website for further details. All welcome, entry £5 for non-members (cash only). Robin Sewell was born and educated in Leeds, Yorkshire, then Cardiff and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He was a Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art between 1980 and...
This talk by James Cassidy will explore the origins and the development of Cubist art throughout its early years from 1907 to 1910. Cubism overturned many conventions of western art and is widely regarded as by far the most significant art movement of 20th Century European Modernism. The art itself however, is often misunderstood or...
James McNeill Whistler is often described as a Dandy, but is it an accurate or fair image, given the often unflattering connotations of the word? Admittedly, many of Whistler’s biographers have accepted it. More damagingly, they have perpetuated it by characterizing him variously as an “eccentric dandy,” “an aggressive dandy,” or a “provocative dandy.” Yet,...
Edinburgh trained painter printmaker Fiona McIntyre recently finished a six month residency at the Sidney Nolan Trust and a solo exhibition at The Rodd called Dreaming The Land. Fiona will talk about her residency and the inspiration behind this unique body of work which includes Sidney Nolan's paintings, the bleak landscape of borderland Wales and...
If you have ever paid a visit to the Botanic Gardens in Kew, did you remember to make time for The Marianne North Gallery? Those with a passion for art can lose themselves in the amazing array of botanic oil paintings, completed by Marianne North, who defied Victorian convention to travel for fourteen years around...
Bath Society of Artists event - please see below for admission details and ticket prices Bombed out of its Bath home, the local School of Art reformed as The Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court under the leadership of Clifford Ellis. For 40 years it acted as a magnet for many of the biggest names...
A free exhibition by Bath Textile Artists showcasing a range of textile techniques alongside key BRLSI key collection items that inspired each piece. Open Monday to Saturday 10am - 4pm. More details about Bath Textile Artists can be found here
An interactive workshop for readers and writers, led by Sue Boyle & Ann Cullis. Inspired by the recent Face to Face exhibition at the Museum of Bath at Work, the workshop will include visual images, performance readings and discussion to celebrate the arts of portraiture and fine writing, both for their own sakes and as...
Many of you will have attended the recent BRLSI exhibition, Home & Away Panoramas, by Bath-based photographer John Law. For lovers of photography, John Law now gives a follow up talk to the exhibition which includes static and 360 immersive imagery, historical and contemporary, combined with equipment & technical demonstrations, and attendees will be offered...
Andrew Lawrence’s recent book, Bath – I Walked Every Street, will provide the inspiration for us to share our own special landscapes through words and images. There will be a range of writing prompts to take away and powerful readings from some of the great landscape writers of the past. The morning will begin with...
A concert of readings and presentations inspired by the February morning workshop, The Story Behind the Face. With the help of Ann Cullis from The Museum of Bath at Work and Ingrid Johannesson from the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, our February workshop explored a wide range of possibilities for creating compelling portraits and suggested many...