Gallery
For more info about the gallery programme please contact the exhibiting artist, contact details are listed below for each show/event. Or call BAS office on 01225 482 480 (Monday, Thursday & Friday). For further details of how to book the gallery please see 'Hiring the Gallery' opposite.
6 - 21 March
SIDE BY SIDE
An exhibition drawing together working communities of artists in and around Bath. Bath Artists’ Studios is hosting an exhibition with a new twist on a familiar theme. The Sidebyside exhibition will bring together artists from studio groups, arts trails and workshop communities in and around Bath, drawing these groups together in one location to showcase the varied work and practices within them. Artist Groups participating Bath Artists’ Studios Bath Artist Printmakers Bear Flat Artists Botany Studios Larkhall Open Studios Mivart Studios Silk Mill Studios Spike Island Studios Trinity Artists Widcombe Art trail Supporting the exhibition will be a series of events: 8 March 7.30 pm- A Talk by Ruth Wilbur, Axis ***FULLY BOOKED*** An Introduction to Using the Web to Promote Your Artistic Practice ----------------------------------------- 11 March 7.30 pm- A Talk by Donna Baber, Creative Learning Agency Sharing the Love - Working as an Artist in Participatory Settings ----------------------------------------- 17 March 7.30pm- A conversation between Bridget Crone (Media Art Bath) and Marie-Anne McQuay (Spike Island) Artist-led activity, localism and critical regionalism in the South West and beyond ----------------------------------------- Poet Caroline Heaton will be out writer in residence during sidebyside. She will be working in the gallery and available for discussion every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the exhibition from 2-4pm. Workshops Caroline will also be running two Haiku workshops on Wednesdays 10th and 17th March 10.30am – 12pm, £8. The Japanese poetry form is used as a path for reflective vision --- the workshop is suitable both for practising artists and for anyone interested in meditative observation. Please contact Caroline to book a place on either workshop caroheaton@yahoo.co.uk Talk Caroline will be giving a talk/poetry reading of her work, together with that of other writers whose pieces have been inspired by paintings and sculpture. Thursday 18th March at 7.30. £3 or £1 for Friends/students. Places are limited so please call/ email the studios to reserve your seat. 01225 482 480/ admin@bathartistsstudios.co.uk 
20 - 24 April
Kate Rattray
An exhibition of mosaic work and accompanying series of workshops
Exhibition of mosaics Saturday 24th April 2010, 10am - 5pm (or drop in during the week from Tuesday 20th April) Workshops:
Direct mosaic Tuesday 20th April 2010, 10.30am - 5pm, Fee: £70 includes materials Shaping and placing of tile Wednesday 21st April 2010, 10.30am - 5pm, Fee: £70 includes materials Colour and tone Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd April 2010, 10.30am - 5pm both days, Fee: £150 includes materials
For more information on any of these courses please see the Classes/Workshops page or contact Kate: kate@rattraymosaics.co.uk or tel: 01749330193