The Friends are delighted to welcome the new President of the RWA, Hamish Young, who was elected in October 2025.
Category: Artists
Soft Power: A Conversation with Curators Alice Kettle and Lesley Millar
Soft Power runs at the RWA until 11 August 2025. Ahead of the opening, the curators spoke to The Floating Circle about the themes of the show and what visitors can expect.
Meet the Artist: Geoff Langan
Artist Geoff Langan, has worked has fallen in and out of love with photography over the years and now has a new romance that combines taking photos and using AI to alter them and explore new worlds.
Meet the Artist: Tony Eastman
Artist Tony Eastman’s work has taken him around the world. Here he shares his stories of working without a studio, how engineering shows up in his work and a long-term attachment to the culture of people in Japan.
Meet the Artist: Miche Watkins
Miche Watkins shares the themes that have continued throughout her life and how the female figure persists in her work.
Meet the Artist: Eileen Cooper RA RWA
Eileen Cooper RA talks about her work and inspirations – and gives some advice to a young artist…
Meet the Artist: Alison Stephenson
Alison Stephenson can often be found training students at UWE on how to make things with textiles, but this is a small fraction of her talents…
Living Lines: Paule Vézelay at the RWA
Curator Simon Grant talks to us about Vézelay’s remarkable life, her connection to Bristol, and why she is a key figure of 20th-century British abstract art…
An obedient dog? AI, art and the RWA
Jamillah Knowles looks at issues surrounding AI and the art world – and how the RWA is responding to them…
Meet the Artist: Lucy Roberts
Bristol artist Lucy Roberts started her career as an animator but soon found a different way of telling visual stories….
Meet the Artist: Terry Williams
Artist Terry Williams shares his experience of being a student at the RWA in the 60s and why art is something you can come back to again and again…
Review: Miss Polly by Valda Jackson MBE RWA – at the RWA
Charlotte Nixon – a Year 10 student at Trinity Academy in Bristol – visits a new exhibition by Valda Jackson at the RWA…
On portraits and storytelling
Rob Campbell on the magic of mysterious portraiture…
On the bend in the Severn
Rob Campbell on the artistic delights of the river at Newnham, Gloucestershire…
Meet the Artist: Karl Singporewala RWA
Our exclusive Q&A with Academician Karl Singporewala…
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