Mat Chivers & Peter Randall-Page in Major Exhibition 'Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768 - 2017'

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Mat Chivers and Peter Randall-Page are included in the exhibition 'Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768 - 2017' taking place at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol from 16th June until September 3rd.

This major exhibition of historic and contemporary art traces the tradition in British art of finding inspiration in the air around us and skies above us.

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Air explores how our interest in air and the sky has affected the work of British artists stretching across four centuries, encompassing representations of breath, the effects of the wind, and flying creatures (both real and imaginary). The exhibition includes loan works by JMW Turner RA, John Constable RA, Eric Ravilious, Christopher Nevinson ARA, Sir John Everett Millais PRA, Samuel Palmer, Paul Nash and Dora Carrington, alongside work from leading – and exciting emerging – contemporary artists including; Liz Butler, Annie Cattrell, Mat Chivers, Peter Ford RWA, Freya Gabie, Neville Gabie, Dryden Goodwin, Polly Gould, Jemma Grundon, Luke Jerram, Janet Haigh, Stephen Jacobson RWA, Helen Jones, Janette Kerr PPRWA, Jessica Lloyd Jones, Ian MacKeever RA, Bridget McCrum RWA, Mariele Neudecker, David Pelham, Peter Randall-Page RA RWA, Berndnaut Smilde, Kate Williams and Alex J Wood.