Past Exhibitions
Flux Arts Festival, Somerset Saturday 24th April to Saturday 5th June 2010.
Artists First will be exhibiting at The Brewhouse Gallery in Taunton alongside many other celebrated artists, including Jon Adams, Tony Heaton and James Lake. Flux Contemporary Arts and Disability Festival will include large scale sculpture, installations and paintings.
Boundless - Connecting Artists 4th to 28th November 2009
Grant Bradley Gallery, Bedminster Parade, Bristol, BS3 4AQ
Artists Brian Davis and Carol Chilcott meet Gareth Chilcott (probably no relation!) at The Grant Bradley Gallery.
After the success of Boundless at the Bankside Gallery, London in July 2008, a second Boundless exhibition was held in Bristol. Fourteen artists from Artists First exhibited 19 pieces of work alongside other UK artists. Boundless was opened by international rugby player Gareth Chilcott.
The exhibition was reviewed by Michael Prior in Bana's December 2009/January 2010 newsletter.
Artists First group show at Pallant House, Chichester.December 2009 - 4th January 2010.
Artists First's exhibition at the prestigious Pallant House Gallery, came down on Monday 4th January after a month long exhibition. We were all very pleased with the exhibition, which represented every artist and most of us managed to visit the exhibition before Christmas. We have had some great verbal feedback and we hope to feedback comments from visitors to Pallant House later, please watch this space.
Bringing People Together
An exhibition of Artists First's work,
supported by workshops at Lawrence Weston Community Farm. Sat 27th June until Thurs 16th July 2009
The exhibition was a great success, over 200 people visited. Artists First ran 5 workshops with local schoolchildren from Bluebell Valley Nursery, Kingsweston School and Henbury School. Artists First sold 15 of the 24 pieces of work in the exhibition.
It was great to have an exhibition that friends and family could visit. It was great to sell our work because it tells us how much people like our art. We learnt a lot from the children. They were very focused and helped us to think about being an artist.
This work was supported by Bristol City Council, Quartet's Grassroots Fund and Lawrence Weston Community Farm.
Artists First at the Bankside Gallery in London
Monday 21st to Saturday 27th July 2008. Fourteen paintings by Artists First members were selected for an exhibition called Boundless at the Bankside Gallery. www.banksidegallery.com
Seven pieces of work were also featured on The Guardian newspaper's website at www.guardian.co.uk
"It is thumbs up good, having our work in a gallery in London. It makes me very happy." Sarah McGreevy.
Artists First AGM and Exhibition at Brentry Methodist Church Hall, May 2008 Artist Peter Sutton presenting the Artists Comittee report.
Artist Brenda Cook cutting the cake to open the exhibition.
Artists First exhibition at The Wholebaked Cafe, Bristol, June and July 2008. Exhibiting artists: Kathy Stewart, Joan Clews, Tom Hodson, Roy Tanner, Brenda Cook, Nicholas Selway, Claude Rimmer and Sarah McGreevy.
Artists First exhibition at The Vassall Centre, Bristol, June 2008. Exhibiting artists: Tom Hodson, Tina Kelly, Liz Lane, Carol Chilcott, Claude Rimmer, Nicholas Selway, Peter Sutton and Joan Clews.
Art While You Wait Artists First exhibit in Willow Tree Surgery, Henbury as part of the Art While You Wait exhibition.
Exhibiting artists: Brenda Cook, Alan Marshall, Sarah McGreevy, Carol Chilcott and Joan Clews.
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On The Next Level - Space Between Touring exhibition, April 2006 to March 2007.
Tony Hart in front of Firebirds by Artists First.
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Artist Carol Chilcott making drawings during Firebird Theatre Company's rehearsals for Faustus 2006. Firebird are a company of disabled actors. www.firebird-theatre.com