ONE YEAR OF THE ARTS SPACE!

SHOP is celebrating yet another anniversary this month, with one year having passed since the arts space opened to the artists of Bristol and beyond.

Here's a round up of the wide range of brilliant exhibitions we have enjoyed over the past 12 months.

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Our first exhibitor was Paulo da Silveira, who covered the four walls of the arts space for his show, Peace and Unity.

PAULO DA SILVEIRA:

The second exhibition was by, well - us! 'SHOP' by SHOP charted the first year of SHOP as a social enterprise and all the community events we had staged.

SHOP:

Third came the lovely Tom Berry. His first ever show, Brawny Gods Just Flocked Up, was a massive success and has led to him exhibiting regularly this year.

TOM BERRY:

A group of UWE graduates were next with their mixed media group show, including paintings and sculpture.

UWE GRADUATE SHOW:

Our first all girl show, Treasure consisted of six female illustrators and artists, including Natasha Almeida, Chandra Almeida and Bett Norris who all returned for another show this year.

PREVIEW PARTY FOR TREASURE:

Christmas saw a group of crafters and jewellers take over the arts space for an exhibition and selling event called Jewellery Box.

JEWELLERY BOX:

February bought the first of two Tim Ulewicz exhibitions in the arts space. This was his first ever solo show called, Never More Than a Metre Away. It was a great success and Tim continues to go from strength to strength with his work.

TIM ULEWICZ:

Islanders, Matthew Douglas and Dan Le Mesurier shared a week each of two weeks in the arts space with their shows. Matthew was up first with his, Eight Drawings.

MATTHEW DOUGLAS:

Dan Le Mesurier had the second week with his photographs and drawings of his trip to Mali, called Oneman Travelplan.

DAN LE MESURIER:

Aaron Boys and Nathan Nicholson were up next with their shared show, Abstract Nightmares. The show featured some intricate, large scale work.

ABSTRACT NIGHTMARES:

The University of Bristol Photography Society chose the arts space as the venue for their annual exhibition and there were some really great pictures. Unfortunately we don't have a photograph for this one, the irony!




Laura Taylor came up from London to show Telephone Tin Cans in the arts space. It featured some very colourful work, as well as balloons which kept wandering from the arts space into the shop and scaring us!

LAURA TAYLOR:

Alex Rankin is a Bristol based photographer and his show, Tales From An Urban Wonderland featured some really great images of hidden-cities.

ALEX RANKIN:

Tim Ulewicz returned to the arts space in June with brother Sam and friends Ross Lovelock and Ross Godding for their group show, Back Then - a nostalgic look back at images and memories from their youth.

BACK THEN:

Aliah Malik is a first year fine art student at UWE and she installed in the arts space some provocative work, including a soiled mattress.

ALIAH MALIK:

Michelle Trepka created large scale drawings, scribed directly onto the arts space walls. This show was particularly close to SHOP's heart as it was based on memories and stories - collected by Michelle - of the historic Christmas Steps where SHOP is based. The show was named Greek Restaurant after one of SHOP's previous incarnations.

A CONTRIBUTOR WITH HIS STORY:

Natasha and Chandra Almeida and Bett Norris returned to the arts space in the summer with their show, Joining the Dots. It was lovely to have them and their fantastic work gracing the walls once again.

JOINING THE DOTS:

Our final artist of the year was Ted Homer, with his photographs of a forgotten corner of Gloucester, Sharpness Dock. Ted used a film camera and took two years to compile the collection.

TED HOMER:

And of course there are many more shows to come, keep an eye on the blog or the website for future shows. This Friday a pop event, by Italian collective, Art for Love: