About me

Founded Keep Art It amidst the height of the pandemic with the simple mission: Share art with as many people as possible. We do this with a mix of live events, media production, artist support and community engagement. I am also an artist myself with a primary focus on creating unique art objects and writing children's books and poetry. Come join me to make the world more full of art. And just remember, Keep Art It.

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• MEDUSA: The Great and Powerful
• Looking for a Bristol based director to collaborate on on an engaging new art series to shoot in spring/summer.
• Looking to do a pop-up art residency. Anyone had experience with business rates and how to get around them for using a space?

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Projects

• ART100 GalleryART100 is a new gallery space in central Bristol with a new idea. No artwork over £100 No gatekeepers Artworks are priced by colour at £50 for a green sticker, £75 for blue and £100 for red. Artists are local and allowed to show 5 works for 4 weeks with 10% of all sales income going directly to charity. We'd love you to come in and support your local cultural makers. We are located at the new space in the Galleries Shopping Centre: Broadmead XP as a joint venture with Artspace Lifespace,
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  KeePartyKeep Art It Final Exhibition Live drawing & silent auction 25th April - 1st May 2022 Keep Art It, Unit 20, The Galleries, Broadmead, Bristol After an exciting and eventful year, Keep Art It is having its final exhibition and silent auction between 25th April - 1st May, and a ‘Keeparty’ on 29th April at 7pm to celebrate its time at its current location in The Galleries. This will involve artworks by artists Holly Mingo(https://www.hmingoart.com/) Jenny Brock (https://www.jennybrockartist.co.u
• Rotary Art Live Charity EventBristol Breakfast Rotary club (www.bristolbreakfastrotary.org.uk) is proud to present this fantastic evening of art and entertainment whilst raising money for Bristol Mind (https://bristolmind.org.uk/) and other Rotary Charities. On Thursday, March 10th from 7pm-9pm at the Galleries Shopping Centre, BS1 3XD, Broadmead Bristol, we welcome 4 painters for a unique night of live painting and music that will be a blast for all audiences. Painters can use any medium they like, paint on any canvas t
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  Keep Art Chat Podcast LaunchA little weekly podcast with me and founder of Brickworks Studios Jacob Dear speaking about art, creativity and working as an artist.
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  Andrew Burns Colwill Exhibition LaunchKeep Art It is thrilled to launch a fantastic new show of the spectacular works from the visionary mind and skilled hands of artist Andrew Burns Colwill. We hope you can join us for the first launch at our fantastic gallery space in the Galleries Shopping Centre. The launch will feature a host of never before seen works created by Andi over the lockdown period between March 2020-Present along with a number of old favourites and Bristol classics. One of the first artists in Bristol painting on th
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  Alice Sims Exhibition with Keep Art ItAlice Sims is a fantastic artist. We are proud to feature her amazing works with Keep Art It.

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  Tension 2021 (Belovitch installation exhibit.)Installation piece. Themes: COVID-19, Pandemic, Lockdown, Connection, Community, Digital connection, Humanity, Mental health, Perception, and Time. Belovitch installation show. Keep Art It, Bristol, United Kingdom. September 2022. Shown alongside "Disparity." https://www.belovitch.com/tension
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  Keep Art It Phase 2 Launch!We've just relaunched our website and redesigned our YouTube! Our purpose is to share art with as many people as possible. We deliver content one of our core values is to "embrace the difficult task of making the spectrum of art and creativity from living artists accessible to wider audiences". Would love if you can check it out and subscribe to see all our upcoming art video drops! www.keepartit.org Remember all you creatives out there to Keep Art It

Work history

Founder - DirectorKeep Art It
Jul 2020Bristol, United KingdomFull Time
We believe in sharing art with as many people as possible.
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ArtistDAK Artist
Jun 2016Bristol, United KingdomFull Time
May 2017 - Founded the first ONE2 festival. A 12 day multidisicplary event coordinating 150 artists Created all marketing material; website, press pack, flyers Handled all pay, invoicing, scheduling and venue sourcing September 2016 - arranged a 10 day Pop-Up gallery in London Blackfrairs

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Skills

• Art
• Paint
• Painting
• Creativity
• Applied Creativity
• Poetry
• Performance Poetry
• Writing Poetry
• Yoga
• Yoga Teacher

Education

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Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of New Hampshire
Aug 2002 - Mar 2006Durham, NH 03824, USA
Studied Political Science and Philosophy as Pre Law