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• News / art

  Meet the categories: Bristol’s visual arts legends

  We want to know your favourite artists, exhibitions and creative spaces

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• Things To Do / Bristol

  28 things to do in Bristol this week, September 29-October 5 2025

  Highlights include Docks Heritage Weekend, a thrift market and a DJ set by Jayde Adams

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• Things To Do / Bristol

  34 things to do in Bristol this week, May 12-18 2025

  Highlights include the last ever Bristol Crime Fest, a Story Slam and a party in a pie shop

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• Art / Art Preview

  Print, Press & Roll Exhibition to showcase 34 South West artists

  Bristol has a long historical tradition of printmaking

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• Art / Paule Vézelay

  RWA opens major retrospective exhibition of work by Bristol-born abstract artist Paule Vézelay

  The internationally renowned artist was born in the late 19th century and died in 1984

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• Art / rwa

  RWA announces extensive 2024 summer public engagement programme

  The institution is committed to being ‘more than the traditional definition of an art gallery’

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• Art / royal west of england academy

  Triple bill of exhibitions from global majority artists coming to RWA

  Rasheen Areen, Valda Jackson, and a group exhibition of Windrush portraits will open on May 25

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• Art / lecture series

  University of Bristol’s annual Autumn Art Lecture series continues

  This year’s theme is 'Art and the City: Bristol at 650'

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