Tim Southall is an artist who seeks collaborative opportunities. As a Quaker, he is guided by the principles of Equality, Truth, Integrity, Simplicity and Sustainability.
Through his engagements in the land, sculptures and drawings, he highlights environmental or social justice issues. His investigative walks in the Avon Valley led to the Hidden History art walks where he shared the extent of Quaker involvement in the brass industry in the 18th century and the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans.
His land art at Newton Park culminated in an event with Fine Art students who helped install the foundations of a stone folly: Mash Castle. The photographs and recorded sounds of this collaboration were installed in an exhibition that included Mash Castle Tower a 1:5 scale maquette created in cardboard, glue and paper-mâché (made from twenty years of shredded 121 notes).
With the dancers Rose Zhang and Gabrielle Hardy and pianist Simon Tait he collaborated in May on a performance: Redressing and Renewal at the Holburne Museum. Open to Truth, the artists brass vessel used in this performance, was later displayed in Play the Museum at the Holburne Museum as a provocation to Gainsborough’s portrait of Nugent.
Tim Southall, has exhibited in a range of exhibitions in Bath and Bristol. He displayed a collaborative artwork with David Alesworth in Karachi in 2021, he was shortlisted for the Lucca Biennale in 2022 and was a resident ‘land’ artist in Andalucia in 2023.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Holburne Museum, Bath - Play the Museum: Open to Truth
Holburne Museum, Bath - Redressing & Renewal
Jigsaw, Bath - Art Showcase
2023 Bristol School of Art & RWA Garden, Bristol - Degree show : In - Out
2022 Starlings, Bristol - Off the wall
Walcot Chapel Art Space, Bath - Relativity
Bristol School of Art, Bristol - End of Year Show
Fringe Arts Bath, Bath - Rewind - Press Play
Lucca Biennale Cartasia, Lucca, Italy - Outdoor exhibition (semi-finalist)
2021 Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan - Flight
Horfield Quaker Meeting House, Bristol - Inside- Out: Integrity
RWA Forecourt, Bristol - Integrity
Bristol School of Art, Bristol - End of Year Show
2020 Victoria Methodist Church, Bristol - Art of the cycle
2019 Bristol School of Art, Bristol - New life
2014 Bath University, Bath - Quakers Today
2013 The Bristol Guild, Bristol - So What Collective: Out of the blue
2012 The Southville Centre, Bristol - Art of Sustainability
RESIDENCIES AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2024 Bristol Quakers - Hidden History Walks - between Keynsham, Saltford and Warmley
2024 Horfield Quaker Meeting House, Bristol - Artlings volunteer
2023 Bristol City Council - Blaise Castle Land Art
2022 Joya Arte + Ecologie, Velez Blanco, Spain - Resident Artist : Land Art
2022 Horfield Quaker Meeting House, Bristol - Creativity Festival coordinator
2021 Hotwells, Community Association, Bristol - Art under the flyover - volunteer artist
2020 Bricks, Bristol - St Annes Mapping Project - volunteer
2020 Studio Upstairs, Bristol - Volunteer assistant to Marian Liebmann - art therapist
2020 Creative Workspace, Bristol - Cardboard project - volunteer artist
TRUSTEE AND VOLUNTEER ROLES
2023 AEOB Director - Bristol based housing charity
2022- GANE Chair of Trustees - grant-making charity for artists, designers and carers
2020- Cotswold AONB - Volunteer warden and stonewaller
2019 - Bristol Quakers Clerk of Weekly Committee - grant making for financial hardship
EDUCATION
2023- Masters Fine Art - Bath Spa University, Bath
2021 - 23 B.A. Fine Art (Honours), First Class. Bristol School of Art, Bristol
2017 - 21 Foundation Degree Fine Art, Bristol School of Art, Bristol
2007 - 09 Foundation Diploma, Fine Art, Bristol School of Art, Bristol