Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Exhibition Press Release Jamaica Street Artists Inside-Out/ Matisse: Drawing with Scissors Images from www.flickr.com/photos/rwapress/sets/ Pleaase note: we are awaiting clearance for press use of Matisse images Details Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX. 0117 973 5129 www.rwa.org.uk (Media only invited to Private View Friday 7 January 2010 6-9pm) Public opening: Jamaica Street Artists Inside-Out 8 January - 8 February 2011 Matisse: Drawing with Scissors 8 January - 6 February 2011 Monday – Saturday 10am-5.30pm (last entry 5pm), Sunday 2-5pm (last entry 4.30pm) Admission: £4, concessions £2.50, under 16s free. Free admission day: Saturday 23 January 2011 The Jamaica Street Artists mount a takeover of three of the RWA gallery spaces, alongside a separate exhibition of the master of colour and drawing, Matisse. Drawing with Scissors is a Hayward Touring Exhibition.  and in RWA New Gallery (free entry) Glo Williams RWA 6 January – 2 February 2011 Glo’s effervescent work kick starts the New Year in the New Gallery with a colourful, lively exhibition of figurative paintings and drawings covering a variety of subjects and media. This Bristol artist will be pushing the boundaries on recurring themes such as her ever popular florals.   Sebastian Smith: Bringing it all Back Home 5 February – 2 March 2011 Ex-Bristol artist working in Provence returns after 14 years with a new series of abstractions that continue to deal with his exploration of the horizon as a necessary hinge between reality and spirituality. Works will include a 30ft panel worked in situ.   Please see after ‘More Information’ for diary of associated  events MORE INFORMATION: Inside-Out / Matisse Drawing with Scissors, late works 1950-1954  At the beginning of 2011 the Jamaica Street Artists (JSA Bristol) mount a takeover of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA Bristol), alongside a separate exhibition of the master of colour and drawing, Matisse.   The RWA, a gallery established in the nineteenth century, is teaming up with JSA, the new young bloods in town, to showcase Bristol’s explosive studio movement and highlight JSA’s prominent position in the city’s art scene, in Inside-Out.   Encompassing the vibrancy and diversity of the studio, the exhibition showcases a number of emerging and established artists and former members who have gone on to achieve international success.   Inside-Out promises a fresh approach in the vein of the RWA’s past experimentation with the 2009 exhibition Crimes of Passion, but more importantly in the words of JSA spokesperson Andrew Hood: “It creates an opportunity for both organisations to reach new audiences. For the RWA to work with a studio group is a real first with the potential to create a very exciting partnership and collaboration. For JSA taking the studio out of its traditional environment and exhibiting as a group allows the artists to see their work in a completely different setting and creates the freedom to experiment in a new context.”   Also taking place during January is an exhibition of the French painter, sculptor and designer, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists. His vibrant works are celebrated for their extraordinary richness and luminosity of colour.   Matisse: Drawing with Scissors, a Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, features thirty-five lithographic prints of the famous cut-outs, produced in the last four years of his life, when the artist was confined to his bed. It includes many of his iconic images, such as The Snail and the Blue Nudes.   Matisse continued creating highly original works into his eighties. For his cut-outs he used paper hand-painted with gouache, laid down in abstract or figurative patterns: ‘the paper cut-out allows me to draw in the colour … Instead of drawing the outline and putting the colour inside it…I draw straight into the colour’. The colours he used were so strong that he was advised by his doctor to wear dark glasses.   Inside-Out runs from 8 January 2011 to 8 February 2011 and Matisse Drawing with Scissors, late works 1950-1954 runs from 8 January 2011 to 6 February 2011 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, open seven days a week. Associated events include exhibition tours, painting and printmaking workshops and lectures. For more details call 0117 973 5129 or visit www.rwa.org.uk.   Associated events Inside-Out Gallery Tour Saturday 8 January 2pm Tour of the exhibition by JSA artist Vera Boele-Keimer Free with exhibition admission fee   Matisse Gallery Tour Sunday 9 January 3pm Tour of the exhibition by Kate Lynch RWA Free with exhibition admission fee JSA Artist Talk by Vera Boele-Keimer and Jan Blake Saturday 15 January, 3-4pm Free of charge, please book in advance by calling 0117 9735129. Long-standing studio member Jan Blake’s sculptural installations are concerned with light, movement and transformation. For Inside-Out Jan will be creating new work in direct response to the architectural structure of the RWA, exploring the gallery’s majestic sense of space. Vera Boele-Keimer’s abstract paintings demonstrate a fascination with natural processes and structures leading to an intuitive and experimental approach to painting. Join these two artists as they provide an in-depth look at their practice. See www.veraboelekeimer.co.ukand www.janblake.co.uk.   Inside-Out Gallery Tour Saturday 15 January 2pm Tour of the exhibition by an artist from Jamaica Street Studios Free with exhibition admission fee   Matisse Gallery Tour Sunday 16 January 3pm Tour of the exhibition by Janette Kerr RWA Free with exhibition admission fee   ‘Colour in the Home’ – An Inspirational Talk by Joa Studholme Sunday 16 January 2-3pm, RWA Fedden Gallery £10 (£8 for RWA Friends), includes tea/coffee and exhibition entrance fee. To book please call the RWA Reception on 0117 9735129. The RWA is working with paint and wallpaper specialist, Farrow & Ball, in presenting this inspiring talk by Joa Studholme, International Colour Consultant to Farrow & Ball.    See colour in a whole new light with this illustrated and informal talk, explaining how, through the simple use of colour, you can achieve striking results.  Learn how to approach decorating and develop your knowledge of colour families and paint finishes with Farrow & Ball and discover how to combine wallpaper and paint together to create the perfect scheme.  After the talk, Joa will be delighted to answer questions. www.farrow-ball.com        Inside-Out Gallery Tour Saturday 22 January 2pm Tour of the exhibition by JSA artist Rachel Milne Free with exhibition admission fee   Food Illustration with Emma Dibben (from Jamaica Street Artists) Saturday 22 January 2-5pm RWA Fedden Gallery £15 per person (including entrance to exhibition and materials). To book please call 0117 9735129. Food illustrator Emma Dibben will lead an exciting hands-on workshop on how to  illustrate food. The workshop will cover drawing techniques, colour theory, and a demonstration in painting with gouache and will provide an opportunity for everyone to produce their own vegetable painting to take away. Emma’s work can be seen gracing the pages of Waitrose Food Illustrated, The Guardian, BBC’s Gardens Illustrated and the Waitrose Bag for Life. See www.emmadibben.com.   Matisse Gallery Tour Sunday 23 January 3pm Tour of the exhibition by Lucy Willis RWA Free with exhibition admission fee   Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart (2004) A film by Mark Kidel, A Calliope Media Production in association with BBC and ARTE France, 60mins Thursday 27 January, 7pm RWA Fedden Gallery £6 per person (including exhibition entrance fee). To book please call 0117 9735129. Directed by award-winning film maker Mark Kidel, this is the first and only definitive portrait of the world’s leading video artist. Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart features the artist at work, rarely-seen footage from his own archive and in-depth interviews with Viola himself. Film maker, Mark Kidel, of Calliope Media, was granted unprecedented access to Bill Viola and his personal archives in the process of making the documentary. See www.calliopemedia.co.uk.   Friends Lecture Threads of History: The World of the Bayeux Tapestry Saturday 29 January 11am-12.15pm. Coffee and refreshments 10.15am Rupert Willoughby is a prize-winning historian who specialises in the domestic and social life of the past.  A graduate with First Class honours in History from the University of London, he is author of the best-selling ‘Life in Medieval England’ and of guides to castles owned by English Heritage, also a series of popular village histories. Commissioned by the Bishop of Bayeux who fought at Hastings, and executed by skilled English craftsmen, the Bayeux Tapestry is the last survivor of a vanished art form.  In this illustrated talk Rupert will present a lively introduction to the tapestry – so much more than just the story of Hastings – in which he unravels some of its mysteries and places it in the context of its age.   Inside-Out Gallery Tour Saturday 29 January 2pm Tour of the exhibition by JSA artist, Anthony Garratt Free with exhibition admission fee   Matisse Gallery Tour Sunday 30 January 3pm Tour of the exhibition by Heather Maclennan RWA Free with exhibition admission fee   Bristol Drawing School Life Drawing Class Sunday 30 January 10am-12noon £10, Materials provided A unique opportunity to draw from life in the stunning RWA Main Galleries, taught by artist Carol Peace from the Bristol Drawing School (www.drawingschool.org.uk).   BristolDrawing Club at the RWA Saturday 5 February 12-4pm Join the Bristol drawing Club for an afternoon of free drawing activities and workshops around the RWA galleries. Please visit www.bristoldrawingclub.blogspot.comfor more information on the Bristol Drawing Club.   Character Design for Children with Tom Plant and Leah Heming Saturday 5 February, 10am-1pm RWA Fedden Gallery Free of charge however booking is essential. To book please call 0117 9735129. Professional Illustrators and character designers Leah Heming and Tom Plant will be leading a workshop in which they will introduce the basics of character design with games and drawing. Their aim is to inspire the group to produce expressive and interesting visual characters that they could use for their own stories. Leah Heming and Tom Plant work in the world of children’s publishing, comic books and animation. Between them they have worked for a wide range of international clients including Cbeebies, The Dandy, The Beano and Meadowside Children's Books and have turned their talent to all facets of character design from creation to finished characters.   See www.tom-plant.comand www.leah-heming.com.   Painting in situ – Sebastian Smith Saturday 5 February, 11am - 5pm RWA New Gallery Admission free As a prelude to his exhibition, 'Bringing it all Back Home', Sebastian Smith will be putting himself under pressure to complete a painting 8m x 2.5m in 6 hours.   Bristol Drawing Club at the RWA Saturday 5 February, 12-4pm Join the Bristol Drawing Club for an afternoon of free drawing activities and workshops around the RWA galleries. Please visit www.bristoldrawingclub.blogspot.comfor more information on the Bristol Drawing Club.   Editor's Notes High resolution downloadable images of a selection of the paintings are available at www.flickr.com/photos/rwapress/sets/  solely for use with media reports of this exhibition. To download high res pictures, please click on the image you require, then click ‘All sizes’ then click on ‘Original’, then ‘Download’. This press release copyright of RWA and used solely to promote this exhibition. For more information or to interview artists, please contact Louisa Davison on 0117 973 5129 (or 01672 811 515) press.office@rwa.org.uk. The RWA has seven galleries within the 19thcentury building. The five upstairs galleries – Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb-Wills, Methuen and Milner - host the main exhibition/s. Artists can apply to hire the downstairs New Gallery for their own exhibitions (which forms the New Gallery programme). In the basement are the RWA Friends’ Room (with occasional Friends’ exhibitions), and also the newly refurbished Fedden Gallery which often exhibits some pieces from the RWA’s permanent collection and is available to hire as a conference and meeting space. All gallery spaces are available for private hire for special events, such as weddings and parties. If members of the media would like a tour, please contact Louisa as above.   RWA also hires out pieces from its permanent collection as part of the ‘Art in Your Workplace’ scheme, see www.rwa.org.uk/workfrm.htm.  The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is one of only five Royal academies of art in the UK. It is a registered charity which has been self-supporting for over 150 years and possesses an outstanding Grade II* listed building, galleries and permanent fine art collection. The RWA has HM Queen Elizabeth II as its patron. The RWA is an established venue for the fine arts and embraces an artistic awareness of the widest nature. 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