Soak up the atmosphere of the galleries with drinks, music and creative activities, and join us for a chance to enjoy the RWA after hours.
Thursday 10 August 2023, 6-9pm
Tickets £9 / £6 concessions (students, RWA, Friends & Academicians).
Ticket price includes a free drink on arrival. There will also be a pop up bar with drinks available to purchase on the night.
The RWA Shop will be open on the night, offering limited editions prints, books, artists’ materials, stationery and gifts for art lovers.
Please note this is an adult only event (18+).
Special live music performance by Olive Haigh. Olive is an artist, freak-folk singer-songwriter and autoharpist.
Explore our exhibitions
Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, is a national touring exhibition curated for the Arts Council Collection by Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid CBE. This exhibition of over 60 works, including some by Bristol-based artists, presents a wide array of modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, photography and film from both the Arts Council Collection and artists’ studios.
Street Life is an exhibition curated by Malcolm Ashman RWA and Stephen Jacobson RWA. Stephen and Malcolm first conceived of this urban-themed exhibition before the pandemic, and felt now was the perfect time to revive it to complement Found Cities Lost Objects in the main galleries. 20 Academicians were invited to display work and the show will include architecture, sculpture, printmaking and painting.
Book here More at the RWAThe RWA – Bristol's first art gallery – is proud to bring world-class visual art from around the world to the South West.
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