- Venue
- The Grant Bradley Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, October 7, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, October 31, 2009
- Address
- The Grant Bradley Gallery Number One Bedminster Parade Bedminster Bristol BS3 4AQ
- Location
- South West England
Last year, the ‘Metainsecta’ exhibition in Bristol featured in ‘Venue’ magazines review of the best local art events of 2008, with many of the pieces subsequently going on to be exhibited at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. Following this success, the same group of artists return to take the plunge into the underwater world and look at oceans, real and imaginary, in ‘MetaMarine’. Once again, the natural history museum and the art gallery collide in a display of new work that may sometimes shock, hopefully delight but which will certainly surprise.Expect perhaps to see a fabric turtle feast, a ferocious predator inspired by a whimsical early twentieth century French piano piece, sailing ships carrying very unusual cargoes, missing links in evolutionary lines that never were, a ‘living fossil’ carved in wood, mermaids purses, beautiful portrayals of strange creatures living in the mysterious dark depths of the oceans, ceramic ‘ghost-fish’ and 1950’s film posters for monster films that were never made. Artists showing include: Xeena Cooper, Duncan Cameron, Jen Ford, Liz Krcma, Hilda Bligh, Sally Stanley, Andrew O’Sullivan, Ros Blackmore, Peta Berry, Rose Sanderson, Alistair Park, MarieAnge Danthois and Patrick Small
