Immersive art gallery to open in Bristol

Bristol-based media centre Watershed is set to open an immersive art gallery next spring.

Undershed, which will be located downstairs at the Watershed’s current location on Bristol harbourside, will feature a year-round programme of immersive work.

Funding for the gallery, which will exhibit a range of mediums including film, projections, mixed reality, VR, audio and music, has come from Arts and Humanities Research Council.

“We think that brilliant immersive work is too often limited to being shown only at festivals, or exhibited with an emphasis on the technology, rather than the quality, meaning and relevance of the work,” Clare Reddington, Watershed CEO, said. 

“There is a huge body of brilliant work that rarely finds a public audience in Bristol or beyond.”

Reddington added Watershed will work with diverse creatives and audiences and use new technologies to “inspire, delight and critique the world we live in and the role that technology plays in it”.

“We will curate and host internationally leading work from across the world, as well as show emerging work from our own community – hopefully building a network of venues to co-programme, share work and develop sustainable practice with.”