Thursday 10 August 2023, 6-9pm

Tickets £9 / £6 concessions (students, RWA, Friends & Academicians).

Ticket price includes a free drink on arrival. There will also be a pop up bar with drinks available to purchase on the night. Please note this is an adult only event (18+).

The RWA Shop will be open on the night, offering limited editions prints, books, artists’ materials, stationery and gifts for art lovers.

Join us from 6pm for a special panel discussion with the winners of the Billboard Commission which invited Bristol-based artists to respond to the exhibition, Found Cities Lost Objects: Women in the City. The talk will be led by Cleo Lake, former Lord Mayor of Bristol (2018 - 2019) and community engagement professional, who will explore the context behind their responses and themes present within the exhibition. The original art works will be displayed on the evening for attendees to see.

After, a special live music performance by Olive Haigh. Olive is a Bristol-based artist, freak-folk singer-songwriter and autoharpist.

Explore our exhibitions

Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, is a national touring exhibition curated for the Arts Council Collection by Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid CBE. This exhibition of over 60 works, including some by Bristol-based artists, presents a wide array of modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, photography and film from both the Arts Council Collection and artists’ studios.

Street Life is an exhibition curated by Malcolm Ashman RWA and Stephen Jacobson RWA. Stephen and Malcolm first conceived of this urban-themed exhibition before the pandemic, and felt now was the perfect time to revive it to complement Found Cities Lost Objects in the main galleries. 20 Academicians were invited to display work and the show will include architecture, sculpture, printmaking and painting.

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