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Bristol's Exhibitions Scene

New art exhibitions are opening all the time in Bristol. Use this guide to find private views and exhibition launches in Bristol.

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Sell out warning! Proper pagan fun from the alternative community at Bridge Farm. Delve into the true meaning of Halloween with storytelling, ritual, fire ceremony, esoteric folk music and Wych Elm's eldritch grunge-horror - it'll be just like The Wicker Man (with a PG rating)! Samhain at Bridge Farm at Bridge Farm Community.

Sell out warning! Attack Pro crank up the masked mayhem and melting KISS make-up, flipping Loco into a subterranean spandex battleground with a spooky seasonal twist. Inside: Welsh WWE titan Mark Andrews celebrates 20 years between the ropes, Deathmatch Prince Drew Parker defends his title against Chris 'The Stallion' Bronson + more grudge matches TBA. ATTACK Pro Wrestling - GOOSEBUMPS 11 Night 2 at Loco Klub.

Free entry / PWYC! This bumper editions of the priceless Anarchist Bookfair spreads its disruptive tentacles over five venues in Old Market, with radical publishers, direct action crews, free childcare, workshops on resisting immigration raids, blocking the Israeli supply chain, and more. Everything you need to stop doomscrolling, get informed, and get involved... Bristol Anarchist Bookfair at Exchange.

The thespian life is not all greasepaint and curtain calls… Argento’s former assistant director Michele Soavi made his debut with this gloriously unhinged horror chimera, a hallucinatory stew of backstage paranoia, baroque bloodletting and Hitchcockian mischief. Stagefright is a queasy little treasure chest of surface pleasures featuring bodies cleaved in two, pickaxes through the gob and an absolutely deranged final act. STAGEFRIGHT at Bristol Megascreen.

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“Spike Island presents the first European survey exhibition of the work of Beverly Buchanan (b.1940; d.2015), bringing together five decades of sculpture, painting, drawing, earthworks, artists’ books and rarely-seen archival material. Rooted in the landscapes and histories of the American Southeast, Buchanan developed a singular practice shaped by memory, materiality and place, exploring the enduring legacies of slavery through the histories embedded in architecture, landscape and everyday materials.”
From: EXHIBITION: Beverly Buchanan, 'Weathering'

“This exhibition foregrounds the intimate forms through which Buchanan nurtured these relationships, alongside major works spanning the 1970s to the 2010s. Artists’ books, manifestos, small sculptures and her witty, affectionate Christmas cards reveal a practice that moved fluidly between the monumental and the personal. Buchanan’s writing—by turns incisive, humorous and deeply reflective—runs throughout the exhibition, offering insight into her artistic thinking as well as her daily life, ambitions and struggles.”
From: EXHIBITION: Beverly Buchanan, 'Weathering'

“Buchanan’s influence on younger generations of artists has long exceeded the institutional recognition her work received during her lifetime. Acknowledging this legacy, the exhibition includes a new commission by London-based artist Phoebe Collings-James (b.1987), whose practice has been shaped by a longstanding engagement with Buchanan’s work. Developed in dialogue with the exhibition, the commission extends Buchanan’s influence into the present, highlighting the continued resonance of her ideas across generations and geographies.”
From: EXHIBITION: Beverly Buchanan, 'Weathering'

“Through her practice Sky discovers where we belong in this world and invites you to linger in her vision of joy and peace. In its simplest essence Rituals is an exhibition that hopes to shine a light on Earth’s magical beauty and remind that we humans are connected and one with this wild and wondrous place. Launch event 4th December 6-9 pm. Open to the public Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th & Saturday 12th December 11 am-5 pm. Also, most times by arrangement until December 20th. Free”
From: RITUALS

“Kieran’s work has featured in several group exhibitions over the last two years. He currently has work in the Royal West of England 173rd Annual Open Exhibition and held his first solo exhibition this autumn at Negative Thinking Bristol.”
From: Make Your Own Photography Zine