Penthouse Art Show and Sale
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PENTHOUSE Art Show & Sale is a celebration of the eclectic art & artifacts on display in the creative interior of Mill End Mitcheldean, collected & curated over the years by fashion & interior designer Liz Lewitt.
All original art, photography, ceramics & jewellery exhibited will be for sale, as will limited edition signed prints by the artists. Head down early to get first dibs! Guest List Private Views on Thursday and Friday evenings before the show opens to the public on Saturday and Sunday.
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PV's Thurs 14 / Friday Sept 15 [ 17.00 – 20.00 ]
Show Sat 16 / Sun 17 / Mon 18 [ 11.00 - 18.00 ]
Breakdown Mon 18 [11.00 – 20.00] (breakdown party - evening)
One of the artists I am most pleased about featuring, whose work hangs on the wall of the white 'boudoir' room at Mill End, is Siena Barnes, fresh from her first solo show in Tokyo & collaboration with clothing brand Hysteric Glamour. Her work would be a striking addition to any self respecting design studio or retail outlet wall!
London-born, self-taught artist Siena Barnes’ ink pop drawings are rooted in a rebellious punk spirit. Elegant and obscene, her celebration of iconography and provocative slogans address issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary society. She continues to create sell out collaborations with Japanese fashion legends Hysteric Glamour, hits the studio every day and exhibits internationally.
Examples of her work can be found in the Tom of Finland Foundation collection, Trebuchet Magazine, Adbusters and BBC Radio 4. She continues to create sell out collaborations with Japanese fashion legends Hysteric Glamour, hits the studio every day and exhibits internationally.
Siena will be showing & selling ink drawings, prints & clothing.
Jimmy Galvin is a composer, producer, arranger and visual artist, who has composed music for the BBC, Channel 4 and the award winning independent film Lido.
He has also exhibited alongside artists such as Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley, as well as being responsible for bringing an exhibition by Yoko Ono to the Georgian House in 2019.
Expect to hear his soundtrack in the background at the VIP Private Views.
Chrisie Nimenko
We're really pleased that not only do we now have a print by Chrisie Nimenko hanging in Mill End Mitcheldean (thanks Chrisie!), but we will be selling her framed originals and unframed prints at the Penthouse Art Show and Sale, Sept 14/18, Tobacco Factory, Bristol.
Chrisie Nimenko is a New Zealand born Artist living and working in the UK. On completing her degree in Fine Art at the University of Auckland, Chrisie made the move to the UK to take up a role as Art Director at Christie’s International. Later, she worked in the same position for influential global brands. Chrisie’s Collages are collected globally and she is also represented by leading Contemporary Art Galleries.
Chrisie creates beautiful and arresting mixed-media collages, digital and analogue, using photographic images, hand painting and embellishments with 24-carat gold. Chrisie’s work is inspired by time spent living and working in New Zealand, Australia and India, Dutch flower painting and views of the English countryside that she enjoys from her third-storey rural studio in Gloucestershire.
Camilla Hall
Penthouse Show, Tobacco Factory, Bristol - Sept 14/18. Not just stuff on walls! Camilla Hall has recently launched a new creative business working in both solid silver & porcelain - jewellery, crockery and to be shown soon - a porcelain chandelier! I have watched her progress from research through setting up a studio and honing her skills and really look forward to what she will show at Penthouse
Carrie Reichardt has had a career spanning many media, including film, performance and sculpture. She is perhaps best known as a ceramicist and mosaicist, working internationally on large scale public murals.
A renegade who is revered in anti-establishment circles, Reichardt's preoccupation with seditious ceramics places her within an artistic tradition extending back to William Morris.
A political craftivist - her entire house in Chiswick, front and back, is covered in mosaic telling stories and campaigning for what she holds true. Have a look! It will cheer you up on this rainy miserable day and give you renewed inspiration for what ever you are doing.
Here at Mill End Mitcheldean, her work sits above a small collection of ink pots from Dig-haushizzle of the Lounge Bars fame and graffiti door panels from Bristol artist Nick Walker in the kids playroom at Mill End Mitcheldean.
Her ceramics will feature in the upcoming Penthouse Art Show & Sale at the Tobacco Factory on September 16/17/18.
Selina Snow
Penthouse Show & Sale (Tobacco Factory, Bristol, Bedminster, Sept 14/18)) is truly delighted to include the work of Selina Snow. Bizarrely we met 40 years ago, in Bedminster, whilst studying for our Degrees at Bower Ashton - Selina in Fine Art, me in Fashion Design. Full circle back to Bedminster!
In fact a large piece done by Selina of a mutual college friend hangs in the Arts and Crafts room at Mill End and a small piece sits on the shelf in the Rinky Dink Pink room.
Selina says - "The Indian series was inspired by a trip to Kerala & Tamil Nadu in South India , intrigued by the cross cultural mixture of Indian, Portuguese, Chinese and Jewish cultures.
Influenced by the heady mix of exotic scented flowers, rich textiles, spices and food offerings and1950’s & 1960’s European iconic baby graphics.
Combined with my own desire to have a family of my own, as I became aware during my travels around India of the high value placed on male offspring. About how women circled “Fertility Trees” praying for boy babies as apposed to girl babies.
My life at this time was fraught with overseeing the care of my father whom was suffering from Dementia. Shortly after starting this series my mother was diagnosed with Cancer and died eight months before my father. I became aware of my family linkage.
As I went through all their belongings I discovered that they had kept all of my birthday and mothers-day cards. I have used elements of these alongside the pictures to represent the cross cultural mix and to represent the Indian and British desire for Children".
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Sue Farrar
Sue Farrar has spent many years as a fine artist, photographer and lecturer and produces fine art homeware, cushions, prints, lamps, scarves, wallpaper and glassware.
Not only is Sue is a multi-talented photographer, she is also a jazz singer. In her role as photographer, her still life compositions are simply beautiful and evocatively lit. And she's great at putting portrait subjects at ease. Then at night, the glamorous Sue transforms into a jazz diva who's performances still keep audiences thoroughly captivated.
Her work is featured in both the Butterfly room and Japanese room at Mill End, and she has sung and run singing sessions at SLOW retreats held at Mill End.
Jason Dorley Brown says of his wonderful work - “After 25 years working in the photographic industry as a black and white printer, colour printer, digital operative and photographer’s agent, I decided, in 2012, to explore and develop my own creative ‘eye’.
I soon realised that I wanted to explore my relationship with colour after years of being a black and white photo printer.
Although the vast majority of my work starts as photograph, I consider myself an image maker and not a photographer. I use digital manipulation to create my images.
My inspiration comes from the many incredible photographers I have worked with, as well as abstract and pop art artists”.
Sarah Warren graduated from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School In July 2011 after completing an MA in Theatre Design as an award winning student. Prior to this she studied fine art and became involved in film and theatre when she worked as a set builder, painter and model maker on the “Wallace and Gromit” feature film “Curse of The Were-Rabbit” and then as the props maker for The Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
Since graduating from her MA in set and costume design, in 2011, she has designed the sets and costumes for several theatre productions including shows for The SanaRt Theatre Company, community based theatre and film for Theatre Orchard, costume design for Insane Root's site specific productions, and amongst others set and costume design for The Rover staged at The Bristol Old Vic Studio.
Colin Moody is in the house - most often documenting key moments in the life and times of Bristol and its Bristolians. SO pleased to have him onboard - his work is critical in documenting Bristol as it is really is. Not just the bits the tourism bodies and powers that be want you to see!
Colin Moody is an artist and photographer.
The social environment, spaces and events are his main fascination and inspiration.
Recent work includes collaborating with the Royal Photographic Society in a ground breaking documentary photographic project: Portraits Of Care.
His work The Wave, an adjusted photograph of the Colston statue being deposed and thrown into the harbour, was acquired by the Martin Parr Foundation and shown at the Island Life exhibition at the Bristol Museum.
His work has been published in a number of books including two History Press hard backs: Stokes Croft and Montpelier & The Great Bristol High Street.
Work has been published in The Guardian, Le Monde and is found in various journals.
He is currently working on a feature length documentary about Bristol's night culture and how it was effected during lockdown, supported by Plaster Creative with whom he works as lead content creator.
Rose Popay was born in Bath, south west England, in 1974. She was born into a group of internationally acclaimed street theatre performers. Rose joined them professionally (paid for by the British Council) and travelled the world interjecting strong visual and comedic arty theatre at street level. She performed at lavish parties to wild festivals - in Nigeria, Lapland, Russia, China, Buckingham palace, Swindon High Street to name a few…this eclectic vibrant bold life style has had a huge influence on her work.
Rose went on to gain a Fine art sculpture BA(HONS)Leeds University.
Rose pursues her own fine art explorations often resulting in colour popping digital art works as well as psychedelic abstracts. Rose also delights in painting murals, helping turn peoples homes into art works.
She is a power house of creativity offering a buxom multi-disciplined portfolio of works. Rose often unites her performing with her visual arts and is seen painting live at weddings and events…sometimes as her self, sometimes as a larger than life character.
Here she was commissioned to create two additional Ramones in the ‘same but different’ style to two images which had been purchased some ten years before. Photographs were chosen of the two remaining Ramones and the set was complete.
Shelby, a documentary and street photographer originally from Australia, and now based in Bristol, is a passionate artist who discovered the enchantment of photography at just 9 years old and which sparked her lifelong fascination with capturing memories.
After taking a break to raise her children as a lone parent, Shelby has returned to photography with renewed passion. Currently, she is pursuing a Masters degree at the University of the West of England. In her photographic practice, Shelby consistently explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the concept of belonging.
With a keen eye for storytelling and a dedication to capturing the essence of her subjects, Shelby’s work invites viewers to reflect on questions about perceived societal norms. Through her lens, she explores the transient nature of gender and the search for personal identity, both internally and externally.
Shelby’s artistic journey is a testament to her unwavering commitment to photography and her exploration of profound and thought-provoking themes. Her work continues to captivate audiences and spark conversations about the intricacies of personal and shared human experiences.
Felix Braun is a contemporary fine artist and muralist, living and working in Bristol, UK. A graduate of the first wave of British graffiti and street art, he began painting walls in Bristol in 1984, picking up the moniker FLX along the way.
Achieving a BA in Visual Communication at the University of Central England in Birmingham, Felix later went on to study youth work at City of Bristol College; going on to facilitate community arts, painting murals and related youth arts projects, alongside his practice, over the next 15 years.
Always a keen documenter and occasional media commentator – in 2008 Felix published his first book Children of the Can: 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti (Tangent Books), which he followed up with an expanded second edition in 2012.
Felix also co-founded the murals collective Paintsmiths of Bristol, whose large-scale works celebrating the lives of Nelson Mandela and Prince, and parodying the ‘special relationship’ between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, gained global media attention.
These days Felix focuses on his personal studio practice and solo mural/public art projects. Felix says of his work -
“My practice explores themes of interdependence and synergy, which are expressed through playful interactions of colour and form, that range from the abstract to symbolic and figurative.
Finding myself in an intensive, extended-phase of re-evaluation and development of my practice (triggered by personal loss and grief, which continued through Covid), what emerged was a process of perpetual evolution of my own complex visual lexis. Cultural and autobiographical references take shape in collections of silhouetted forms, generating composite structures and new colour combinations where they intersect and overlap”.
Queen Bee, Bristol Queen DJ
DJ extraordinaire from Massive Attack after parties, legendary Bristol club nights and all major UK festivals, Queen Bee has organised, curated , promoted and played at one off events and gigs for over 30 years.
A licencee, she has managed bars, cafes , radio stations and one off events. She is VERY well connected and knows her stuff from years working in the hospitality, music and entertainment industries.
Fresh from running bookings and events at The Forge Bristol, Queen Bee will be playing the Friday preview night of PENTHOUSE Art Show and Sale at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol on Friday 15 September.
She is also seeking new avenues for self employed and freelance DJ, music promotion, marketing or front of house work within the creative industries. Contact her for consultancy, one off projects, on-going freelance or part time work or DJing - @bristolqueen on instagram and Roz Melina Scordilis on facebook.