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Rosemary Mayer, Scarecrow, 1978-79. Courtesy the Estate of Rosemary Mayer.
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 45th Parallel (2022). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Event
Previews: Rosemary Mayer & Lawrence Abu Hamdan
7 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Fri, 07 Oct
- 18:00 – 20:00
Free admission
Address
- 133 Cumberland Road
- Bristol
- BS1 6UX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 506 via Temple Meads
- Bristol Temple Meads
Join us for the previews of the new Spike Island exhibitions on Friday 7 October 2022, 6-8pm:
About
Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching
Covering over thirty years of Mayer’s artistic practice from the 1970s to the 1990s, this exhibition is the first time Mayer’s work has ever been shown in the UK.
The exhibition includes emblematic works including large fabric sculptures, travel diaries and fleeting performances of the 1970s through to pastels, watercolours and other works on paper from the 1990s.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: 45th Parallel
His first major UK solo exhibition since winning the Turner Prize 2019 and new film commission awarded the Audience Prize 2022 by the Toronto Biennial.
Highlighting how borders are not just lines but, rather, richly layered spaces, the changing backdrops draw attention to the film’s underlying questions about shifting perspectives and vantage points. Together the film and installation render the Haskell Free Library and Opera House as a political and geographical grey zone, reminding us how free movement, free knowledge and free space are constantly under threat.
Free - book your place: Exhibition previews: Rosemary Mayer and Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Spike Island
