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Bruce Rimell is a visual and graphics artist based in Leeds-Bradford in the UK, who works with visionary, archetypal, archaeological and petroglyphic motifs and themes rendered in vibrant styles and vivid colours reminiscent of Aboriginal art and Minoan frescoes. The central focus of his practice is to bring the very ancient into the modern field of experience, variously inviting or challenging the viewer to look underneath the contextual aspects of contemporary art and modern experience to view the universalities and disquieting visionary sensations common to all human cultures past and present, and which we have inherited from our ancestors.
He aims to speak to those aspects of us which operate without words – magic, the Palaeolithic and non-rational modes of experience feature strongly – and abstract commentaries or critical positions are abandoned in favour of a direct communion with the very essence of what it means to be alive as a human being: Come and see, and look within. What will you find?
:: exhibitions and projects ::
2010
The Bingley Gallery, Bingley, UK - Apr - Solo show: Shamanic Lifeblood exhibition
Durban Art Gallery, Durban South Africa - Mar to May - Dialogue Among Civilisations exhibition
The Rainbow Experience, Cape Town, South Africa - Apr to May - Third venue for Freedom & Art show
The Art House, Wakefield, UK - Sep to Oct - Solo show: Life, Death, Gene, Flesh exhibition
Venue TBC, Leeds, UK - Nov to Dec - Solo show: Dreams & Nightmares exhibition
2009
Gallery Tunedal, Trangsund, Sweden - Jan - Contributed four drawings to exhibition click here for details
Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, Beacon NY, USA - Jan to Mar - Mirca group show Freedom & Art
Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, UK - Feb - Solo show: Digital Lines: Ancient Words exhibition
ArtMazia, Massy, France - May to Oct - Exhibition of Honey For The Mistress Of the Labyrinth painting
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, UK - Jun - Showing of my short film Human Download as part of 'Born' exhibition
Dialogue Among Civilisations, Durban, South Africa - Jul onwards - Participating artist
Design Innovation Centre, Leeds, UK - Oct - Solo Show: On Gold & Stone exhibition
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, NY, USA - Oct - Second venue of Mirca Freedom & Art show
Leeds College of Art & Design, Leeds, UK - Nov to Dec - Solo show: Modern Palaeolithic exhibition.
Throughout Derbyshire, UK - Nov - Public opening of my Great Derbyshire Palaeolithic Hunt project
Östra Gymnasiet, Trangsund, Sweden - Nov to Dec - Work shown as part of Mirca Tour for Human Rights
2008
00130 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland - Apr - Exhibition of two new Drawings
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, UK - Jun to Oct - Display of Four Magic Makers graphic work in public space
Leeds Library Art Space, UK - Jul - Exhibition of eight petroglyphic and experimental pieces
Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK - Aug to Oct - Exhibition of four Visionary pieces
The Bingley Gallery, Bingley, W Yorks, UK- Sep - Exhibition of Large Format work according to theme
Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, UK - Oct - Exhibition of digital work in Flesh Open Exhibition
The CarriageWorks, Leeds, UK - Nov to Jan - Exhibition of 10+ new works exploring Archetypes & Cycles of life
The Gallery, Ilkley, W Yorks, UK - Dec - Exhibition of six Visionary works
2007
Priestley Theatre, Bradford, UK - Feb to Mar - Exhibition of four new Digital Textile pieces
Arts Cafe, Leeds, UK- Mar to Apr - Exhibition of fourteen new pieces related to myths of the sky
Out Of the Woods, Leeds, UK- Apr to May - Exhibition of ten prints of previous work
Centenary Square, Bradford, UK - May - Commission to design five Canvas Banners for a central public space
STIR Bradford Festival, Bradford, UK - July - Inclusion of Flying Fox in the This Is Not Cannes film festival
Mitzpe Ramon, Negev, Israel - Sep - Exhibition of commissioned Negev Desert rock art pieces
:: publications & media ::
Ink & Marker Visions: Images Of Playful Archetypes 2004-2009 - Retrospective of Ink & Marker work
Visionary Artist Podcast - Interview on podcast VAP007 (2010)
Planet Earth Planet Art - International Book Project through Mirca Art Group - Contributing Artist and Editor
Logical Unsanity, Australia - Inclusion of Visionary work in the Spring '08 edition
Freedom & Art - International Book Project through Mirca Art Group - Contributing Artist
Northern Exposure - Inclusion of design on magazine cover based on Dragon Purple banner (2007)
Visionary Revue, France - Inclusion of six pieces from the ::salviaspace:: project with commentary (2007)
Entheogen Review, CA, USA - Inclusion of two pieces from the ::salviaspace:: project (2006)
:: awards, recognition & permanent collections ::
Mar 2010 - ArtsMix* Emerging Artists award, Leeds, UK - Winner of Fine Art 2D Practitioner
Mar 2010 - Durban Art Gallery & Municipal Art Collection, Durban, KZN, SA - Blombos in permanent collections
Oct 2008 - Flesh Open Exhibition, YCC, Bradford, UK - Co-winner of Merit Award with ...Flesh Alone
Sep 2007 - Inspired By World Heritage, Saltaire, Bradford, UK - First Prize Winner with Five Mountains
Aug 2007 - Negev Jeep Karkom Tours, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel - Negev Rock Art series in permanent collection
:: memberships ::
Society For Art Of Imagination - Member - International group aiming to publicise visionary and surreal art
Mirca Art Group - Council Member - Internet-based international art group pressing for global justice & change
The Art House - Member - Wakefield-based organisation supporting artists UK-wide
ArtsMix* - B2B Member - A publicly-funded enterprise supporting West Yorkshire artists in their practice
Aire Valley Arts - Member - A group of local artists in the Leeds-Bradford-Skipton region of the UK
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