Thursday 29 September 2011

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER!


We had a little holiday last month, so we kind of missed out September, but October is making up for that with some lovely wee events for you and some to get thinking about for the coming months too.

NEWS

CHRISTMAS ARTISAN MARKET!
Christmas Artisan Market plans are now underway. It will take place on the first Saturday of December, that's the 3rd of December from 11am - 4pm. Get
in touch if you would like a stall for just £5!

ONE YEAR OF THE ARTS SPACE!
There's another anniversary for SHOP this month, one whole year of the arts space! Check out our blog below to read about all the wonderful artists we've had exhibit over the last 12 months.

WINTER OPENING HOURS

With summer away away, we are now open on Mondays again so you can shop with SHOP 6 days a week (again)!

EVENTS


East Meets West September 30th | 6pm - 10pm

Italian collective Art for Love are putting on a one night only exhibition
in the arts space. The show is the work of two photographers - Javier de la
Varga and Michael Goggioli, with photos from two very different worlds.

www.artforlove.net



SHOP's 5th Birthday Party! October 15th | ALL DAY

Unbelievably it's our birthday again and even more unbelievably than that,
it's our FIFTH birthday! We'll be celebrating all day with the usual
juvenile mix of cake, pop and silly hats.

Hash Tag Slags October 17th - 29th | 12pm - 6pm
Hash Tag Slags is a collaborative installation commenting on the use of
social networking (specifically Twitter) to create identities.

Wednesday 28 September 2011

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:


Saturday 3 September 2011

LUSH, OR WOT?!

Yesterday SHOP got well and truly ravaged by the LUSH Bristol laydeez. What a fragrant forces of nature they collectively are!

'Huh?' you might be grunting to yourself at this point, well - the story goes a bit like this: LUSH have a lush range of perfumes, some of which are only available online and so not very easily sniffable, the idea was to have a pop-up shop and general party with all the scents available to sniff. We were very chuffed that they wanted to use SHOP for this purpose and happily acquiesced.

Here's some pictures:


Consultation area. Can you imagine a world without smells? I wish I could (yes, Brett I'm looking at you). I imagined it and I chose the one smell I would have as the smell of my cat's fur when she's been outside in the cold. Yes I did.

Very scrummy cakes, flavoured around some of the perfumes.

Nostrils ready? All the smells set up for the sniffin'.


Tasty cocktails, also flavoured around the perfumes. If that's your tweet sneaking in in the background, then you can sue us for copyright by writing to: Micky Mouse, 123 Whatever Street, Loserville, BOOBIES.

These bubbles weren't just any bubbles, they were flavoured with Imogen Rose, one of the perfumes (not a person). They made the Steps smell lovely. And, that's cats on that dress that is.

Hairdressers Husband. That's the name of the parfum.

I carried this down the Steps. Took me hours to walk 100 yards.

Champers alright for you, Pats?