Future Exhibitions

Summer Show 2012
9 July - 11 August

Now in its 23rd year, the Millfield Summer Show is firmly established as one of the highlights in the South West exhibition calendar. With a mix of traditional and contemporary works it is hugely popular with local artists, as well as those from further afield.

The Show's range and diversity mean there are pieces for everyone to appreciate - from the accessible to the more challenging - but above all it is a celebration of the passion and energy of local artists, with the added attraction of affordability of many works on display. Artists enjoy the prestige of exhibiting in the Gallery's fantastic space, and the chance to win prize money totalling £1500.

Application form for the Summer Show 2012 (pdf / 147kb)

The Urban Wastelands Project
3 September - 20 October

The Urban Wastelands Project presents artist Day Bowman's new body of abstracted paintings in association with film from award-winning filmmaker Ian Knox, and music from Transglobal Underground's haunting fusion of cultural influences, ‘Unite - A Gathering of Strangers'.

With a narrative that embraces personal and collective memories of transmigration and movement, the collaboration weaves through marine and industrial wastelands on a journey which is often infused with sadness and longing for homes left far behind.

 

Barry Cawston
5 November - 8 December

Axbridge-based Fine Art photographer Barry Cawston's work has taken him from Bristol to China, Italy, Cuba, and Brazil. Winner of the Exeter Open, and Chairman's Choice at the RWA Photographic Open, he has also shot for English Heritage's press campaigns for over 10 years.

Working with a wooden 5x4 format Wista Field camera he creates images that are complex, yet uncluttered, sometimes chaotic, yet composed. Whether of a multi-storey city car park, a crumbling palazzo in Napoli or an ordered jumble of high-rise apartments, there is a blurring of the future with the past, and as Cawston puts it himself, "It's the picture that is in control really, not the photographer".

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