‘NEW ONLY : ONLY NEW’ - Curated by Chloe Dowsett
Open night Friday 22nd May, 6pm-9pm
Continuing daily until Saturday 6th June 2026
Newark Works, Bath, 2 Foundry lane, BA2 3DZ
All details including the full FAB map of all 25 exhibitions can be found in the link below:
‘New only : only new’ is part of Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2026 (FaB), with 15 exhibition & project call-outs forming the FaB Festival programme, 22 May - 6 June 2026 in Bath, UK.
FaB is a test-bed for new ideas, a platform for early-career curators & artists, and those who prefer to operate outside of the gallery-based arts scene. FaB aims to raise the profile of contemporary visual arts in Bath and beyond,
FaB festival is a free, 2 week festival putting art in unusual places in unexpected ways for people to happen across and interact with, with exhibitions, interventions and events based in Bath, UK.
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Exhibtion blurb:
Let’s visually facilitate a discussion around artistic autonomy.
New only:Only new is an exhibition exploring the organic world of process based work. Work that consecutively changes through chance, impulse, making and interaction.
The artwork here has intentional unpredictable elements.
To retract from the progression of artificial autonomy, we must celebrate what cannot be searched or generated. Not findable to exist and be called upon.
This exhibit invites the viewer to celebrate artwork that is brand new. Drawing, printing, painting, collaboration, performance, words or and media that hold no influence to this saturation of artificial outlooks.
Site specific work features heavily, with chance and gesture being the methods used to process an outcome. The space given here will also determine the outcome of the digital interactive work included. Your participation today, in one instance, will create an artwork in itself.
This exhibit is heavily influenced by the Fluxus movement and what it stands for.
Does process based work hold a new found importance in the age of AI in creative spaces?
AI has its place, but so do humans, sounds, mark making, chance and organic sequential work.
Artists involved understand the present and how important it is. Art has been taken back to it’s archaic roots by exploring how the hand can hold something and move. The importance of the sound you made only today. The repetitive and instinctive mark making of evidence of your daily routine.
What is your perception of process?
How we changed our preferences towards process based work with the discovery of automated artwork?
Exhibiting artists:
George Henry Rowe, Paul Ferris, Toshihiro Moteki, Lisa Rubin, Mark Fearbunce, Sophie Bowen, Cary’s Ross, Cameron Lings, Gurvinder Singh, Juan Jovi & Chloë Dowsett.
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