Chequered History Exhibition

What a build up to our exhibition, marketing has been full on in the last few days.  Its actually happening, as the Bristol Post Diverts Art Collective the 9 of us have developed artwork to reflect the quirky space in the Edwardian Cloakroom.

1 Exhibition, in 

2 Edwardian cloakrooms/ featuring artists from

3 continents /using  

4 Edwardian washbasins and 

5 mahogany toilets as traces and layers of the

6 languages we speak/We are engaging with

7 different media in 

8 interlinked installations by 

9 fine artists

The Bristol post diverts are a collective of second year FdA (fine art) students at Bristol School of Art. The first of their three exhibitions this year is a site-specific show (November28th- 1st December 2015) in the Edwardian cloakroom, a Bristol City Council Art Space. This exhibition includes work by 9 artists in ceramics, photography, paint, film, sculpture and installation in response to a particular Bristolean cloakroom.

Some of the work is a dialogue with the colours, styles and textures of the environment and its former uses, whilst other pieces focus on the Edwardian era (1901-1910) and the new ideas of popular celebrity; scientific invention and intellectual development that influenced everyday lives at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet other pieces celebrate the lives of the gay men who have used this space as a place to meet and have sexual encounters over the last couple of centuries.