Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery in Bath is seeking public support for a crowdfunding campaign for its next blockbuster exhibition. Starting on 23 July via Art Happens – UK charity Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform – the […]
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An artful way of telling Bath’s history.
We’re just weeks away from the official unveiling – in Bath – of a new piece of public sculpture from the artist who has already given the city the ‘Herschel Chairs.’ Patrick Haines likes […]
Those wartime years remembered.
Sixty outstanding artworks from the 1940s – including some wartime images of Bath – will be showcased in a new Summer exhibition next month at the Victoria Art Gallery. War and Rumours of War: 1940s […]
Sunday in the park
I had a brief moment of being proud to be born in this country last night. I wasn’t dancing to the jingoistic tunes of the likes of Nigel Farage but foot tapping to home-grown folk […]
Subtle – it isn’t!
If you haven’t visited Bath’s Holburne Museum for some time – the new coat of paint in the entrance corridor isn’t the only thing you’ll notice that has changed. Director, Dr Chris Stephens has put […]
A sneak look at Bath’s big art show!
It’s the biggest event of the year for members of the Bath Society of Artists whose members and their family and friends packed into the Victoria Art Gallery tonight on Friday for this year’s annual […]
New ‘hangings’ at No 1
A private collector has generously loaned two large portraits to No. 1 Royal Crescent. They are of Peter and Amy Burrell, who married in 1723, by Allan Ramsay (1713–1784). With no known connection to Bath […]
History – in the round.
There have been many artists – over the years – who have been inspired by ‘The Circus’ here in Bath. John Wood the Elder’s Georgian urban masterpiece and the country’s first giant roundabout. However, it […]
Gallery programme for 2019 is published.
Here’s a complete list of exhibitions coming to Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery between now and the end of 2019. The Victoria Art Gallery’s programme for 2019 will include an exhibition dedicated to paper, a display […]
Talent for sale.
Students from Bath Spa University’s BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion and Interiors course have swapped seminars for a stall this December as their hand-made creations have gone on sale at this year’s Bath Christmas Market. […]
