Kurt Jackson: The River Avon Part 2 at the Victoria Art Gallery

Hundreds of pieces of blue and white china and textiles create a vast mosaic of pattern and colour at the Victoria Art Gallery in the New Year. The exhibition, the first of its kind on such a large scale, runs from 19 January to 30 March 2008 at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Gallery in Bridge Street.

The inspiration behind the exhibition is a collection of over 2,000 early 19th-century pottery pieces. The best of these will form the centrepiece of the show, displayed on a giant Georgian-style dresser.

Three major contemporary artists - Kaffe Fassett (textiles, paintings), Candace Bahouth (mosaic-covered shoes), and Carole Waller (paintings on silk) have been invited to display new work inspired by this most English of traditions. The show promises to be a riot of colour, and the whole building, upstairs and down, will be transformed.

Kaffe Fassett is widely regarded as one of the world's leading textile artists and is, undoubtedly, one of the world's most original colourists. Bath is a continuing source of inspiration, as his brilliant reactions in textile and paint to the collection of blue and white pottery on show at the Victoria Art Gallery demonstrate.

Carole Waller is a Bath based painter who uses her eye for colour and texture to paint lengths of silk. She calls her work ‘collaborations of print with painting’.

All new work is for sale and there will be gallery talks by the artists and workshops for schools. For more information on the show and the Victoria Art Gallery visit www.victoriagal.org.uk

Venue

Victoria Art Gallery, Central Bath

Dates

1 Aug 2009 - 4 Oct 2009