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Art Bath
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Media Art Bath (MAB) champions contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work. Working in Bath, the South West and beyond, MAB aims to support artists in a manner that will both develop their practice and engage audiences in a lively, meaningful and enjoyable way.
Media Art Bath encourages performative and interdisciplinary practices that enable creative and experimental collaboration between artists and other creative producers. They don't have a gallery space of their own, preferring the flexibility of choosing a site that is appropriate to each individual project.
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 , Portable Radio visited Bath and spoke with Bridget Crone, Director, Media Art Bath; Elena Hill, curator / producer, contemporaryartprogramming; Lucy Sames, Programme Assistant, Media Art Bath; Sarah Simmonds, Avebury World Heritage Site Officer; and Arran Hodgson, Bath Fringe Festival Visual Arts.
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During each Portable Radio session we make a careful note of all of the organisations people refer to. Below are a list of links to the projects, organisations and information people mention in this dialogue.
Bearflat Artists
Open studios in Bath
BANA (Bath Area Network for Artists)
BANA is an artist-led network that is trying to raise the profile of arts activity
in the Bath area with the aim of establishing and strengthening links between
artists, artists' groups and art promoters, and of advocating for increased
investment in local arts activities
Bath Artists' Studios
Bath’s largest studio provider with nearly sixty artists and courses
in print, painting, drawing and sculpture, a programme of talks and events,
and gallery exhibitions
Wallcot Chapel Gallery
Contemporary arts venue in Bath
Picture This
Moving image projects agency in Bristol
BRLSI (Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution)
Educational charity with two main activities; a programme of talks, discussions
and exhibitions on science, the arts and current affairs, and the maintenance
and exhibition of an extensive collection of books, fossils and artifacts
AMIE (Artists' Moving Image Exhibition)
Strand of the annual Bath Film Festival presenting artists moving image work
alongside the main programme, curated by Elena Hill
Jurassic Coast
Dorset and east Devon world heritage site, comprising 95 miles of coastline
with geological features spanning the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
Media Art Bath
Media commissioning agency in Bath, run by Bridget Crone and Lucy Sames. Commissions
new work by artists such as juneau/projects/ and Gail Pickering
The Holbourne Museum of Art
Small museum now closed to the public until renovations and extension complete
in 2010
Glasgow International Festival
Biennial visual arts festival in Glasgow
Fringe Art Bath
Visual arts component of the annual Bath Fringe Festival, co-ordinated by Arran
Hodgson
Rose Popay, aka The Art Tart
Visual artist exhibiting at 2009's Fringe Art Bath
Newlyn Exchange
Contemporary art gallery newly opened in Penzance, Cornwall
Hot Bath Gallery (closed)
Exhibited work from students of the City of Bath College and international
artists
Arnolfini
International contemporary art gallery in Bristol
Bath University
Bath Spa University
Higher education establishments in Bath. University of Bath also includes the
ICIA (Institute
of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts).
Michael Tippett Centre
Bath’s only purpose-built chamber music venue
Chapel Arts Centre
Venue for performing arts, including Jazz, Folk, Classical, Country, Theatre,
Comedy, Dance and things that are simply uncategorizable
Komedia
A leading arts and entertainment organisation, based in Brighton and Bath
Bath Synergy Centre
Not-for-profit community centre
NESA art agency in Radstock
Radstock Art Project (RAP) provides creative workshops, courses and projects
in a wide variety of art forms, both at its specialist arts facility at Radstock
Youth Centre and through outreach work in the environs of Midsomer Norton and
Radstock (Norton Radstock)