Head to Head
GBS Fine Art
First Floor
13 Sadler Street
Wells
Somerset BA5 2RR
30th September - 26th November 2022
Head to Head is a joyful celebration of the multiplicity of approaches artists have long revealed in depicting the human head. Not remotely comprehensive and never ever didactic, this exhibition, curated by Giles Baker-Smith and Cedric Christie, revels in diversity — from Dürer to Bacon to the contemporary, from the classical to the unabashedly bizarre. It embraces all media — sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and print-making — and offers them up in a literally cheek-by-jowl “St Petersburg hang” in our gallery in a Georgian townhouse in the cathedral city of Wells in the heart of Somerset.
The gallery is open from 11am-6pm Wednesday to Saturday and by appointment.
Participating artists
Oliver Abraham • Dragan Alexsic • Francis Bacon • Susannah Baker-Smith • Nicola Bealing • Roger Bernet • Rae Birch-Carter • Kate Bland • Gerald Brockhurst RA • David Caines • Louise Camrass • Rob & Nick Carter • Jake & Dinos Chapman • Cedric Christie • Jeroen Cremers • Serena Curmi • Ken Currie • Adam Dix • Francis Dodd RA • Albrecht Dürer • Edward Dutkiewicz • Roy Eastland • Machiko Edmondson • Sarah Edwards • Mark Entwisle • Simon English • Nicole Farhi • Gordon Faulds • Luke Fildes RA • Kevin Foote • Henry Fraser • Steve Goddard • Thomas Cooper Gotch • Oona Grimes • Sean Henry • Charlotte Hopkins Hall • Peter Howson • Edward Robert Hughes • Ian Hughes • Tom Hull • Gary Hume • Laura Hynd • Alison Jackson • Alfred Kingsley Lawrence • Kieron Leach • Theyre Lee-Elliott • Simon Liddiment • Chet Lo • David Lucas • Haydn Reynolds Mackey • Edwin Martin • Siobhan McAuley • Donna McLean • Heather V. McLeod • Georgia Moors • Ishbel Myerscough • John Watson Nicol • Kelvin Okafor • Martha Parsey • Manfred Peckl • Jocelyn Pook • Oliver Raw • Pascal Rousson • Paul Sakoilsky • Rebecca Scott • Tai Shan Schierenberg • Slawn • Phoebe Stringer • Tanguy • Gavin Turk • Unknown • Gill Vaux • Harriet White • Clayton Woods