Introduction

The Awning Project is hosted by The Spyglass Restaurant in Bristol and provides an exhibition space for artists during it's closed season from November 2007 to March 2008.

The Project is now in it's fifth year and provides an exciting opportunity to show artwork at an unique waterside venue in the centre of Bristol.

View last year's events.

Location

In the heart of Bristol’s docks, split between a converted barge and the adjacent quayside in one of Bristol’s most stunning waterside settings.

The Spyglass Restaurant,
Welsh Back,
Bristol,
BS1 4SB,

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Now showing

The Awning Project exhibtion space has now closed. Thank you for your support during the 2007/08 exhibition season.

Awning Project Events

Bristol Radical History Week 2007

Witches, Pirates and Smugglers

28 October - 3 November

Reviled by the authorities, these outcasts often became folk heroes. Who were these ne’er-do-wells? And why did they become enemies of the Church and State?
Learn more from the BRH website

Maita Robinson and Frankie Partridge

She and I. Two Journeys in Contemporary Print

10 November - 22 November

Reform with Rose Popay

Paintings, Prints, Perfomance, Collaborative

24 November - 6 December

Art from an ex-offenders centre with a twist.

Tea and biscuits, canvas to join in with and make your own charcoal picture to take home.
Watch Rose on YouTube or visit her site: www.rosepopay.co.uk

Group Art Show

Drawing, Jewellery, Paintng & Sculpture

8 December - 22 December / 11am - 7pm, Tuesdays to Sundays

Sculpture by Neil Bonnet, Jewellery by Jemima Lumley and paintings from Elin Thomas.

Martyn Colbeck

Wildlife Photography

23 December - 3 January

A leading wildlife life photographer and film maker; Martyn Colbeck has been visiting an elephant named Echo in the Ambesoli National Park, a 60 year old matriarch, for over 17 years. His award winning photographs form a beautiful, haunting and intimate chronicle of one animal’s life in the wild.

5

Five artists, one show, a fistful of talent.

5 January - 17 January

The exhibition features work by Gareth Sheehean, Anne Deeming, Gus Cummins, Tristram Tyler and Luke Knight present an opportunity to experience a rich variety of contemporary art.

Boarders & Boundaries

19 January - 31 January

A site specific installation of performance painting, drawings, film and photography by artists and art from Iran, Bristol and Palestine.

Including paintings by Behnaz (see opposite), live mural work by Dunken brothers and Mark Sands, films by Ed Hill and photos and projections by the cowfolk. A must see for those who value free thinking for all!

Lisa Furness, Hetty Dupays and Annie O'Sullivan

2 February - 17 February

A retrospective of Lisa's unusual and atmospheric work - A good introduction to her distinctive and sometimes unsettling approach to the modern urban landscape.
Hetty Dupays paintings inscribe themselves in the Romantic tradition and evoke fleeting impressions or sensations of a specific aspect of nature.
Annie O'Sullivan continues to paint in true monochrome tradition. This aids to create a space, for a deeper consciousness and understanding.