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Portrait of Carlos by Rachel Hemming Bray
  • Pride

    Pride

    In a window display for the Finis Gallery, artist Lou Gray has created a scene to help celebrate Pride on the Christmas Steps of Bristol. A revamped doll of Freddy Mercury defeats 3 demons of Hate, Bigotry, and Ignorance on a briefcase stage for an audience of LGBTQ+ community dolls. For more information about the……

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  • Screwed

    Screwed

    (June 6, 2021 – June 2023) Paul Green began making sculptures as props for experimental films in the early 1990’s. As part of the Artspace College Project in Bristol 2013-2014, PG constructed the series of sculptures ‘Screwed’ on the boarded up windows of a derelict building. Each sculpture is made from thousands of screws hand-tightened……

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  • A Fine Balance

    A Fine Balance

    (May 26 – June 5, 2021) Finis Gallery celebrated the life and philanthropy of high-rope walker Carlos Trower (1850 -1889), known as the ‘African Blondin,’ who used his platform to promote the emancipation of enslaved people. The window display of the exhibition featured ‘Portrait of Carlos’ by Bristol-based artist Rachel Hemming Bray. As a young……

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