23rd Summer Show

Atkinson Gallery, Millfield

9 July – 11 August 2012

Private View: Monday 9 July, 7-9pm.

PRESS RELEASE

Celebrating the passion and energy of local artists, the Millfield

Summer Show is firmly established as one of the highlights of the

exhibition calendar. In recent years this hugely popular show has

welcomed artists from further afield, and always features a

diverse range of works, from the traditional to the more

contemporary. An added attraction is the affordability of the

pieces on display, and artists enjoy the prestige of exhibiting in

the Atkinson Gallery’s fantastic space and the chance to win prize money totalling £1500.

Image: Roots, Gillian Widden

Evolver Prize 2012

This year the Atkinson Gallery is delighted to be hosting the tenth anniversary Evolver Prize exhibition, running

alongside the 23rd Summer Show. Every year Wessex-based artists are invited to submit actual cover size 2D work

in any media for selection to appear on the front cover of Evolver’s July and August issue.

Judges will include Simon Barber (Editor, Evolver), Michelle Henning (Artist, Senior Lecturer UWE, Bristol) and

Paul Maxfield (Director, Atkinson Gallery).

Future Exhibitions

The Atkinson Gallery’s autumn 2012 programme will include The Urban Wastelands Project, presenting artist Day

Bowman’s new body of abstracted paintings in association with film and music, and photography from Axbridge-

based fine art photographer, Barry Cawston.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON EXHIBITIONS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM:

Atkinson gallery@millfieldschool.com

t. 01458 444322

www.atkinsongallery.co.uk

www.evolver.org.uk / prize@evolver.org.uk