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Main Exhibition
Near and Far/David Hockney 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'
18 July - 5 September 2010
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, hosts two main exhibitions this summer.

Video Tour of the RWA
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The RWA created a video 'virtual' tour through the galleries which is now available for everyone to see online. No download is necessary. >>more

' Near and Far', an RWA members’ exhibition, explores themes of travel and place‘Grimms’ Fairy Tales’ is fantastical etchings by one of the most popular British artists today, David Hockney. Over sixty RWA academicians are exhibiting work for ‘Near and Far’ much of it exclusive showings of new work. From Bristol to Bhutan to distant black holes; territories mapped from memory and imagination; journeys revealed and a sense of place are among the diverse subjects of this broad-ranging show. >>more

Press Releases
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Featured Academician
Ros Cuthbert RWA

Rosalind Cuthbert took her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art between 1974 and 1977. She is a co-director of the Mendip Painting Centre. She taught at Central School of Art and Design as a printmaking tutor between 1979 and 1993 as well as initiating several shorter painting courses in Italy, France and Wales.

Ros Cuthbert 'Crook Peak From The East'
2007, Watercolour, Acrylic , 52cm x 72.5cm

She has had several solo exhibitions including Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath in 1995 and the Victoria Rooms Bristol in 1989 where she exhibited as part of the Bristol Print Festival in a show entitled 'Hostages'. Her work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Contemporary Arts Society to name but three.>>more

Milner Gallery
Steve Whitehead
11th September - 9th October

Free of charge
An exhibition of works by one of the most important hyper-realist painters working in Britain today.

Whitehead’s enormous technical ability combines with an instinctive feel for the naturalworld to produce beautifully crafted atmospheric landscapes. Here the RWA presents a comprehensive collection of major new works from the artist’s studio.

Anne Adamson
27 August - 28 September 2010
Ethereal paintings in ink and acrylic by Bristol based artist Anne Adamson. The images in Anne's work come from memory and imagination, creating new worlds where anything might happen.

She conveys a sense of displacement and ambiguity, drawing on the fragmented imagery of dreams where scale is unpredictable and isolated structures occur in unexpected settings.. >>more