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 […]
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Focus on Georgian ‘selfies.’
Bath’s premier period house – No 1 Royal Crescent – is currently showing its visitors that the whole social media thing is nothing new. While we – in this age of Instagram – are […]
Putting Jane in her place.
After the Roman Baths and Georgian architecture, English novelist Jane Austen must rank pretty highly amongst our city’s tourist attractions. With a Jane Austen Centre – and annual festival – she certainly helps bring in […]
Take a plinth, Miss Austen!
While local academic Professor Tim Mowl has been arguing for a statue to be erected in Bath to honour architect John Wood – it seems the figure of Jane Austen could be first to occupy […]
Bath’s iron maiden is unveiled.
Residents of Bath’s newest residential quarter – the Crest Nicholson Riverside development – seem to have given a ‘thumbs up’ to their latest incomer. It’s the Maid of the Bridge – a 4 metre high […]
Maid in Bath.
Later next month a new piece of artwork is set to be installed at Crest Nicholson’s Bath Riverside development and Bath Newseum has been lucky enough to see the start of its construction and talk […]
A bridge with history.
Four years ago contractors began dismantling the old Destructor Bridge across the River Avon. It would be making way for a new – coathanger-styled – connecting bridge to allow traffic in and out of the […]
What a hoot!
Get ready Bath – for a bit of a hoot. One hundred individually-decorated, large and smaller Owl sculptures are going to be ‘perched’ in and around the streets of the city this summer for a […]
Holburne takes flight!
Starting this week – artist Laura Ellen Bacon will transform the facade of the Holburne Museum with an intricate yet imposing sculpture. Visible from inside and outside the building, its surging presence will evoke the […]
Statue moves!
Looks like the double-life-sized torso of Olympic swimmer Mark Foster – which stands at the entrance to the SouthGate Shopping Centre – could shortly be on the move. However, the artist who sculpted it would […]
