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Based in Bristol, David Trigg is a regular contributor to a-n magazine and has written for a number of other publications including MAP and Wax Poetics. He has been a contributing editor at Bristol-based Decode Magazine and in 2006 was recipient of the Situations New Writing Bursary (www.situations.org.uk).
As part of a global network, ports are places of constant flux, facilitating the movement of goods, people and information. Central to this exhibition is the notion of the port city as a “symbolic site of cultural exchange”. While this Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September – 11 November 2007
Kathleen Herbert’s new film Stable was produced during her residency at Gloucester Cathedral. Its genesis lies in a throwaway comment made by one of the cathedral’s tour guides who mentioned that horses were once kept there. After further Read on…
Gloucester Cathedral
2-28 May
For this exhibition Phil Toy presents a collection of works in which a diverse range of objects have been cut up and reassembled. Through these “transformative interventions” Toy creates assemblages that juxtapose seemingly random elements Read on…
Hotbath Gallery, Bath
5-25 September
‘Generation Games’ sought to explore the terms ‘emerging’ and ‘established’ and how artists from these two groups can benefit each other through the processes of dialogue and collaboration. Young artists starting their Read on…
Plan 9, Bristol
10 September – 8 October
Curated by Fiona Haser, ‘Time of Light’ draws together the work of fifteen contemporary artists working with pinhole photography. Pinhole photography is often dismissed as simple novelty, but this exhibition challenges us to lay aside any Read on…
Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford on Avon
16 July – 20 August
Bristol’s Broadmead shopping district may not be the first place you think of as a venue for contemporary art, but that is exactly where the city’s newest art space is situated. LOT is a collaborative initiative led by Bristol-based Read on…
LOT, Bristol
19 March – 30 April
Nestled away in the south Gloucestershire countryside lies Leyhill Arts and Gardens, a unique new art space housed curiously on the site of HM Prison Leyhill. Showing here, ‘Marked Men’ grew out of a book project developed by Amanda Wait Read on…
Leyhill Arts and Gardens HMP, Gloucestershire
21 January – 3 March
Consisting of recent work by three artists using film and video and utilising just the downstairs gallery and foyer of Modern Art Oxford, 'Recall' investigated ways in which history is constructed, edited, remembered and received. Although most of Read on…
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
27 March – 2 May
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