Arcadia id est

24 August – 30 September

Arcadia, was an ancient Greek region known for its ideal, simple pastoral life - living off the land and celebrating nature. id est (more commonly known as ‘i.e.’) is about describing a term. So the exhibition Arcadia id est means: ‘nature in other words.’

Curator Sarah Bodman from the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design (University of West England) gathered books from the artists at bookfairs, exhibitions and via the internet over an intense period of 18 months.

The result is an exhibition of conceptual multiples, visual poetry, digitally printed images, as well as hand printed books and sculptural book objects.

Themes range from a celebration of the natural landscape, and our relationship to it, to nature within an urban landscape, or to despair at our destruction of the global environment.