The Zillah Bell Art Gallery is a

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exhibiting local and national artists. Housed in a Grade II

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, the gallery opened in 1988.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions at the Zillah Bell Gallery change monthly with annual Summer and Christmas exhibitions, the latter serving partly as a retrospective of the year and including the work of both established and up and coming Artists. In 1996 and 2000, the

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artist and writer Anthony Earnshaw, exhibited there with Another G&T in 1996 and Flowers 2 in 2000. The gallery is named after owner John Bell’s youngest daughter Zillah who, along with her sisters Daisy & Lettice Bell, were responsible for organising the Art of Care auction of postcards held in Edinburgh, 2005. Artists who exhibited at the Art of Care Auction included Sir

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David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...

and

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Artist's list

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Hung Drawn and Slaughtered, 2003 * Anthony Earnshaw (1996 ''Another G&T''; 2000 ''Flowers 2'').

Gallery

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, created for the exhibition on 'Paddy's Hole'', 2005. File:Cabinet of Cakes.jpg, ''Cabinet of Cakes'' by David Winfield.

References

External links

Norman Ackroyd, Royal Academy

Zillah Bell Contemporary Art Gallery Home Page
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