Past
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INFINITE by Carali McCall Body | Alchemy | Landscape | Cosmos
Restraint Running Performance Scheduled Saturday 28th September 2024 | 11am | 1pm | 3pm | 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 CLOSE Gallery are delighted to present INFINITE: body, alchemy, landscape and the cosmos , a solo exhibition of new work by performance artist and scholar Carali McCall. This is McCall’s first exhibition with CLOSE since the announcement of her representation earlier this year. Infinite describes something that is limitless and... Read more -
Striations
Tony Blackmore | Robert Currie | Ben Gooding | Maribel Mas 22 Jun - 3 Aug 2024 CLOSE are delighted to present Striations, a group show with work by Tony Blackmore, Robert Currie, Ben Gooding and Maribel Mas. Striations explores how the meticulous repetition of multiple lines can accrete in such a way as to form a unified movement, transcending the individual parts of which it is... Read more -
Mirrors Fog Over When I Breathe
Group Show 7 - 19 Jun 2024 CLOSE are excited to announce two forthcoming exhibitions in early Summer 2024; Mirrors Fog Over When I Breathe featuring new works by Helen Barff, Katherine Perrins and Denise Webber. This show marks the first in a series of curated exhibitions in Bristol by CLOSE Gallery and will open at Centrespace Gallery on Saturday 8th June and run until Wednesday 19th June. The exhibition brings together works that evoke a humanness and notions of what it is to be alive and physically present and in the moment. The title is taken from a poem by the American poet Leslie Harrison. Read more -
Trish Morrissey at CLOSE
Solo Show 20 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 We are delighted to present this solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Trish Morrissey, bringing together photographic work from her well-known series Front (2005-2007), Psycho Beach (2008-2010) The Failed Realist (2011) and The Successful Realist (2017), alongside new works which have their first showing here at CLOSE Gallery. Read more -
CLOSE AT DRAWING NOW ART FAIR, PARIS, 21-24 MARCH
21 - 24 Mar 2024 CLOSE are looking forward to presenting works by Magnus Hammick, Jane Harris, Anna Mossman and Katherine Perrins at the 17th edition of the Drawing Now Art Fair, 21-24th March 2024 at the Carreau du Temple in Paris. CLOSE artist Carali McCall will also be doing a circle drawing performance off-site.... Read more -
JANE HARRIS | Ellipse
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine La MÉCA, Bordeaux 16 Feb - 30 Jun 2024 Frac MÉCA, Bordeaux, are staging an exhibition of paintings and watercolours by British artist Jane Harris (1956–2022), currently on show until 30 June 2024. Ellipse, curated by Freeny Yianni of CLOSE Ltd, is an intimate survey of works made between 2005 – 2020. Jane Harris was a keen observer of... Read more -
GOLD
A Group Exhibition 2 Dec 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 Open By APPOINTMENT: 2-22 Dec 2023 & 4-20 Jan 2024 Opening event: 1-3pm, Saturday 2 December 2023 Join us in an investigation of gold’s historical and iconographic use in the history of art. These works all reference the individual artist's own practices and demonstrate the continued importance of gold as... Read more -
Parallels | An exhibition of sculpture & drawings by Simon Hitchens
16 Sep - 2 Dec 2023 at Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, curated by CLOSE. CLOSE are pleased to announce that we have collaborated with the South West Heritage Trust and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, to bring you a solo show of work by Somerset-based sculptor Simon Hitchens, who we announced representation of back... Read more -
First Light | Magnus Hammick
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 CLOSE is delighted to present a new series of work by Magnus Hammick. First Light will showcase a brand new series of photographic and performance-based works. These pieces derive from Hammick’s daily dawn walking ritual during which he photographs the same oak tree, thus documenting the cyclical nature of the... Read more -
J.Cassette | Open Studio
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 For this year's Somerset Art Works Open Studios event, CLOSE will be opening up the studio of our Artist in Residence J.Cassette. CLOSE is delighted to present Process and Time. Cassette has been investigating advancements in digital art, and its rapid pace of development within the creative industries which has... Read more -
Lines of Empathy
Group Show 3 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 A group show bringing together hand-drawn work on paper by 17 artists working in Britain today. The artworks in the exhibition are the subject of a new artist’s book, bearing the same title of the show, produced by the Italian, London-based, artist Giulia Ricci between 2020 and 2022. The exhibition... Read more -
Americana | A Selection of Photographs by Barry Cawston R.W.A
14 - 28 Apr 2023 Barry Cawston has always been fascinated by both North and South America since hitch-hiking around the USA and across Canada as an Eighteen year old. He has since visited Mexico, Cuba and Brazil and returned to the USA many times. The photographs exhibited are some of Cawston's favourites from the... Read more -
CLOSE Collections | Spring 2023
27 Mar - 7 Apr 2023 Introducing CLOSE collections This mixed exhibition features selected works from CLOSE gallery artists Pennie Elfick, Anna Mossman, Magnus Hammick, Jane Harris and Katherine Perrins. Curated with spring in mind; these fresh uplifting works can be viewed in the main gallery Tues-Thurs by appointment, email sarah@closeltd.com to book Read more -
Katherine Perrins | Open Studio
21 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 We are pleased to present Katherine Perrins, our artist in residence, as she opens her studio for the duration of 'Brian Rice: Red, Black and White', 21 Jan - 18 Feb 2023. Perrins has been working on a new series of oil paintings, titled Many Lines of Luminous Things, following... Read more -
Red, Black and White
Brian Rice 21 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Close Ltd is thrilled to begin the New Year with a suite of nine heraldic prints by the distinguished West Country painter and printmaker Brian Rice. Read more -
Helen Barff | I Wrap My Fear Around Me Like A Blanket
CLOSE LTD CURATES: Close Ltd & Taunton Brewhouse, Somerset, 24 Sep - 20 Nov 2022 These two shows reflect on safe spaces and refuge. Identifying the power of the human spirit to prevail, through memory. Mapping her way on a journey of investigation and finding meaning by stitching together historical facts and overlooked practices, materials and techniques. Read more -
Pennie Elfick | Talking to Myself
CLOSE LTD CURATES @ Taunton Brewhouse, Somerset 6 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 This exhibition is held at Taunton Brewhouse 'I realised some time ago that when I am working I am constantly in conversation with myself, sometime it is a dialogue, sometimes I am weighing up the pros and cons of what I am doing, asking myself about the colour, the shape,... Read more -
Helios Rising
Veronica Wilton 2 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Veronica Wilton's first solo show with Close Ltd leads you through a narrative of folklore and mythology that dwells within the objects she sculpts and casts. Seen here is 'Buteo Buteo', (2014), a work that comprises a pair of bold yellow hawks, placed a distance apart, poised, eyes level with... Read more -
Scratch the Surface
Toni & Andrew Davey 18 Sep - 12 Nov 2021 Close Ltd are delighted to present the work of Toni and Andrew Davey for Somerset Open Studios this year. Toni and Andy together have raised three children, each of them now working in their various ways as artists and designers. They both have over the years gained the respect of... Read more -
Shivers | Shifts | Overlays
Anna Mossman 21 Jun - 9 Sep 2021 Close is delighted to present a new body of work by Anna Mossman. This new exhibition includes 'Shivers', 'Shifts' and 'Overlays' alongside selected works from the 'Imagined Legacy' series. These large works on paper continue an ongoing fascination with repetition and the trace of activity over extended time. They follow... Read more -
Still Life
Magnus Hammick, Paul Newman & Katherine Perrins 19 Sep - 4 Oct 2020 Magnus Hammick and Paul Newman | A collaboration, exhibition and open studios Magnus Hammick and Paul Newman have collaborated on a project relating to understanding the art of depicting the landscape, finding synergy in this common ground, and sharing a visual language. Hammicks immersive oil paintings are a follow on... Read more -
Modular Locus
An exhibition of work by Chuck Elliott 15 Feb - 23 Mar 2020 A solo show of digital drawings by Chuck Elliott Chuck Elliott has selected a little over twenty works to be exhibited at Brewhouse Gallery in Taunton in conjunction with the launch of his new book 12. The selection encompasses many of the more intriguing works to come out of... Read more -
Varkiza
Melanie Vaxevanakis 21 Nov 2019 - 21 Feb 2020 FARM Bristol, Edgecumbe Hall, Richmond Hill, Bristol, BS8 1AT Varkiza is a media project by Melanie Vaxevanakis which tells the story of the everyday lives of fisherman and the effect the economic and environmental crisis has had on the lives of those bound by their reliance and love of the... Read more -
Line | Field | Interalia
Grenville Davey, Magnus Hammick & Anna Mossman 15 Sep - 15 Dec 2019 An exhibition celebrating the Silver Anniversary of Somerset Art Weeks with work by Close Ltd artists: Turner Prize winner Grenville Davey; Magnus Hammick, Anna Mossman and Amanda Lynch, Artist in residence in collaboration with SAW's Creative Pathways programme for emerging artists. Read more -
The Dancing Plague
WITHOUT COMPROMISE IV: An exhibition of work by Jack Tierney 11 May - 29 Jun 2019 Curated by Freeny Yianni 'Tierney is very much a part of the vibrant, significant influence of Bristol's art scene and has created a new body of work for this show.' Freeny Yianni This exhibition focuses on The Dancing Plague, which was a phenomenon that occurred in Strasbourg in July 1518.... Read more
