February 2020

Congratulations to Jack Doherty on being shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize 2020!
The Loewe Foundation has announced 30 shortlisted artists for the 2020 edition of the Craft Prize. The prize, now in its fourth year, presents an exciting array of objects that prove a mastery of material, from 6 continents and 18 different countries. The annual prize was launched in 2016 to celebrate excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship, as well as a tribute to Loewe’s beginnings as a craft workshop in 1846.

 

The award, conceived by creative director Jonathan Anderson aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture. The winner will be announced 19 May 2020. Each finalist’s work will be exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris from 21 May to 12 July 2020.

June – October 2019

Jennifer Anderson is 1 of 44 artists whose work has been selected to show in the final group of the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘BP Portrait Award’ exhibition.
Her shortlisted painting ‘Saskia’ is below. You can vote for Jennifer’s painting here– the winner of the public vote receives the BP Portrait Visitors’ Choice Award.
Good luck Jennifer!

Saskia has been painted by Jennifer before, she spotted her on a friend’s instagram feed. She was intrigued by her ethereal quality and asked if she would be willing to sit for a painted portrait.
See more paintings of Saskia here at the gallery.
If you would like any more information about Jennifer’s work please contact us.

 

 

September 2019

The Royal West of England Academy’s 167th annual open exhibition opened its doors on Sunday 29 September. Located in a spectacular Grade II listed building in the heart of the Bristol, the RWA is the UK’s only regional Royal Academy of Art and one of only five in total. The RWA is committed to providing great art for everybody, and to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of art for the widest possible audience.
Exhibitions at the RWA always feature work by leading contemporary artists (including the RWA’s own Academicians) alongside great works from the past, opening up new and surprising contexts and discussions- we spotted some familiar faces in their new show…

 

Beth Carter

 

Anna Gillespie

 

Sarah Gillespie

 

Joy Wolfenden Brown

July 2019

Akiko Hirai is among 29 artists nominated for this year’s LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize. The prize, of 50,000 euros, will be presented to the winner at the opening of the 2019 Loewe Craft Prize exhibition in Tokyo.

The LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize, now its third edition, champions artists who have ‘made fundamentally important contributions to the development of contemporary craft’ and ‘whose talent, vision and will to innovate promises to set a new standard for the future’. It was launched by the LOEWE fashion brand’s creative director Jonathan Anderson, a craft collector himself. The work of the shortlisted makers – selected from over 2,500 submissions from more than 100 countries – will go on show at Isamu Noguchi’s indoor stone garden ‘Heaven’ at the Sogetsu Foundation in Tokyo.

Akiko Hirai’s next exhibition here at Beaux Arts Bath opens in October 2019.

April 2019

Anna Gillespie’s new, permanent sculpture ‘SHIP’, commissioned for Morecambe Bay Partnership at Half Moon Bay, becomes simultaneously a welcoming beacon and a symbol of fond farewell at a traditional point of departure and arrival. Purposely crafted to be of no clear historic reference, yet making overt reference to the Viking longboats of former Bay dwellers, the evidently seafaring structure marks the boundary of land and sea. The two, accompanying ‘boatmen’ figures look forward and back, a reference to both the nature of any journey and the inevitable changes in Morecambe Bay’s landscape, population and industrial heritage, where fishing and shipping sit side-by-side with the contemporary influence of nuclear power. The sculpture will offer viewers the chance to stop and reflect, continuing the Bay’s ancient traditions as a place of retreat, spiritual reflection and pilgrimage.

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March 2019

Congratulations to Patricia Shone who won the ‘Emmanuel Cooper Award’ at Ceramic Art London. The ‘Emmanuel Cooper Award’ is given by The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust which was set up in 1991.
For the last 5 years, the Trust has invited a museum with a notable collection of contemporary ceramics to select a piece of work at CAL which they would like to acquire for their permanent collection. The Trust buys the work from the potter using a bequest from the estate of the late Emmanuel Cooper and donates it to the museum.
This year the Victoria & Albert Museum was invited to make the choice, and chose the wonderful piece below.

  

Erosion Bowl, hand formed from high iron clay. Wood fired on sea shells to the point of the ceramic form softening. 

 

See more of Patricia’s work here.

October 2018

Anna Gillespie has collaborated with engineering firm Buro Happold to create a sculpture that will be installed on the Elizabeth Parade, Bath at the end of October. The sculpture ‘Maid of the Bridge’ is being made using pieces of Victorian metal – obtained when the Victoria Bridge was being refurbished.

Watch the video below to hear Anna Gillespie talk about the ‘Maid of the Bridge’ project.

 

May – December 2018

Dartington Arts has invited Sarah Gillespie to be their artist in residence on the Dartington Hall Estate in Devon. You can see what she is getting up to on her instagram feed here.

   

January 2017

A huge congratulations to ceramicist Adam Buick who has received a ‘Creative Wales Award’ from the Arts Council of Wales. There are awards of up to £25,000 for artists who have had achievements in their career and will encourage creative experimentation and research for future practice.

‘My artistic vision is to make work that embodies the landscape that inspires me. I use a single pure jar form as a canvas to map my observations from an ongoing study of my surroundings. Through the use of gathered materials in the ceramic process and through acts carried out within the landscape I hope to create a narrative, one that conveys a unique sense of place.’ – Adam Buick

December 2016

‘How to Make a Proper Alien’ a new book by artist Nathan Ford.

44 pages, 22 x 28 cm. All illustrations are from original paintings by Nathan Ford. A limited number of books will be signed by the artist, contact us here for more information.

September 2016

The Royal West of England Academy’s 164th Annual open exhibition features a great mixture of artists- including some familiar faces…

Anna Gillespie

 

 

Sarah Gillespie

June – Aug 2016

The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London shows us all aspects of contemporary art – and this year’s exhibition features a number of familiar artists…

Sarah Gillespie’s brilliant and contemplative mezzotint ‘Absence’ is on show, with a landscape by Tom Hughes and some of Donna McLean’s atmospheric paintings lit only by torchlight…

 

 

 

 

May 2016

After winning the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Artist of the Year 2015, Akash Bhatt is on the judging panel for the 2016 prize! The other judges for the competition are; Sara Dudman, artist; Simon Oldfield, Curator and gallery owner; Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures and Louis Wise, Critic and Writer, The Sunday Times.

The Winners will be announced in the Culture section of the Sunday Times on Sunday 28th August.

Pictured: Akash Bhatt with the winning painting of his Mother titled ‘Blue Room’ 2015, (and the lady herself on the right).

April 2016

Anna Gillespie has been chosen to exhibit in the ‘Elements of Capability’ Outdoor group sculpture show at Lacock Abbey. The show commemorates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown, whose vision transformed the grounds of the landed gentry in the 1700s and is on from 30 April – 22 May.

Read more about the event here

  

ANNA GILLESPIE

‘Let Heaven Go’

Bronze, Ed. 3 233 x 60 x 60 cm.

November 2015

The wonderfully talented Sarah Gillespie has had her beautiful charcoal drawings chosen to cover the new editions of Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre – being republished by Penguin Vintage Classics ahead of next year’s 200th anniversary of the extraordinary Bronte sisters. Well done Sarah- they look sensational!

 

Read more about how Sarah’s exquisite drawings were chosen here

November 2015

Nathan Ford’s painting ‘Party Wall’ has been shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize 2015. The winner will be announced in February 2016. Nathan will have new work on view during the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington, Stand G19, 20-24 January.

 

September 2015

Akash Bhatt has won the Sunday Times Watercolour Artist of the Year Award 2015.

The winning painting is a portrait of his Mother titled ‘Blue Room’. He has used colour and composition brilliantly, we love her striking orange sari- congratulations Akash!

To view the video of the judges deliberation process and their fantastic comments click here

 

June – Aug 2015

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition offers a fantastic array of contemporary art – and this year’s exhibition is a riot of colour, variety and features 4 of Beaux Art’s talented artists…

Jo Oakley

 

Simon Wright

 

Donna McLean

June 2015

The brilliant ceramic sculptor Nick Mackman has won the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015. She was the overall competition winner with her charming sculpture ‘Sleepyheads’ pictured below.

To read more follow the link below:

http://www.davidshepherd.org/news-events/news/devon-sculptor-is-the-2015-dswf-wildlife-artist-of-the-year/

May 2015

It is fantastic to see two of Anna Gillespie’s beautiful bronze sculptures being incorporated into Chris Beardshaw’s garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show again this year.

‘Let Heaven Go’ (pictured below) is a striking silhouette amongst the lush foliage and his dark patina goes with the velvety purples and is almost bark-like when looking through the trees…

‘Trust’ is situated in another part of the garden, framed in an alcove he brings a different, more intimate pose to the garden.

Read more about the Gold medal winning garden below:

The Morgan Stanley Healthy Cities Garden, designed by Chris Beardshaw

September 2014

We are thrilled that Takeshi Yasuda has been awarded an honorary degree from Bath Spa University, three weeks prior to the opening of his show here at Beaux Arts Bath on October 11th.

June 2014

Above is Anna Gillespie’s sculpture ‘Gateway’ made from recycled paper at the Glastonbury Festival 2014. Watch a video of the installation by clicking on the image.

June 2013

Anna Gillespie’s The Tree People sculpture forms part of a gateway to the 60-acre Green Fields zone at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

To read a BBC article about the commission please click here.

May 2013

Anna Gillespie’s two bronze sculptures Homage and To The Limit are exhibited in Chris Beardshaw’s Gold award winning Arthritis Research UK Garden at the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Watch the video here.

Homage is sited in the Veiled Garden and To The Limit is displayed centrally in the Lucid Garden.

Please click on thumbnails below to see full size articles and links.

Kensington & Chelsea Magazine, May 2013 – issue 015

   

 The Arthritis Research UK Garden Guide, PDF

April 2013

Elisabeth Frink’s exhibition at the Beaux Arts in Cork Street receives much critical acclaim. Coinciding with release of the handsome catalogue raisonné, published by Lund Humphries and edited by Annette Ratuszniak, it reproduces all of Frink’s 402 sculptures and includes a short story by Michael Morpurgo.

Read the recent Telegraph article written by Andrew Lambirth celebrating the work of Elisabeth Frink here.

September 2012

Sarah Gillespie’s Drypoint engraving  ‘Peppered Moths’ (above)  has been chosen as one of the 125 works in this year’s Threadneedle Prize which runs at the Mall Galleries from 26 September to 13 October.  Following the Threadneedle prize Sarah is showing alongside her sister, sculptor Anna Gillespie, at Beaux Arts, between 15 October and 6 November.

May 2012

Nick Mackman has won second prize in the Wildlife artist of the year award.  She is photographed below with David Shepherd, and with her award winning wild dogs…..

   

 May 2012

Nathan Ford’s wonderful painting ‘Joachim’  appeared in the 2012 BP prize held at the National Portrait gallery in London. Brian Sewell commented ‘A number of small paintings require a measure of contemplation before we see how good they are … past the sketch left unfinished at the shrewdly chosen moment. Half a dozen check the visitor’s stride with some combination of perception, insight, understanding and the painter’s sleight-of-hand — by Nathan Ford (whose Joachim, unfinished, not wholly clarified but delicately smudged, reinforces a conviction formed last year that he is a painter to watch)’

To read the full article click here

Nathan’s painting of ‘Alpha’ was exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait painters at the Mall Galleries in May too.

 

April 2012

Nathan’s portrait ‘Abi II’ collected the second highest total votes for best painting in last year’s ‘People’s Vote’ at the  BP portrait  prize exhibition.

  

Writing about the BP show, amid the ‘hooey phooey and bilge’ , according to the Evening Standard’s Brian Sewell,

If push came to shove I might just consent to sit for Nathan Ford whose ragged attack on Abi (a cider-sodden tramp I presume) might suit a man of my age and general dishevelment. I sense that he sees something beyond the surface of this sitter, a Scholar Gipsy, Ancient Mariner or Lear, and serves him well enough – though broader shoulders (or none) would have offered better support to so wild a head. There is something of Ilya Repin about it, his Tolstoy or another Volga Boatman.

Click here to read Brian Sewell’s complete article for the London Evening Standard.

May 2011

Anthony Scott’s meeting with the Queen during her historic trip to Ireland , where she unveiled a sculpture commission he made for the Irish National Stud in County Kildare, is pictured below.

 

      

      

 

The Irish Arts Review article on the Queen’s visit is here.

There is also an article in the Summer 2009 edition of the Irish Arts Review which looks at Anthony’s constant reference to Irish myth and legend.  Click here to read.

The article metamorphosis in the interior design magazine ‘Forma’ is included here.

Sept 2010

AKASH BHATT’s painting ‘Life’ was chosen as the winner of the ‘London Lives’ exhibition and a 25 feet long replica of the work is displayed on Blackfriars bridge in London until spring 2012.

Click here to read the Bankside Gallery article.

Click here to read the Guardian article.

Click here to read the London SE1 article.

Click here to read the This Is Local – London article.

Oct 2010

AKASH BHATT won the Penguin Prize in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

Click the thumbnails below to read an article about the competition.

       

Click on the thumbnail below to see Akash Bhatt’s page in the exhibition catalogue.

Click here to read the Arts Hub article about the competition.