Salon des Refusés

Studio BRUT's first group exhibition: the art that got turned down, hung with the story of its rejection. One night only, Fri 4 Dec, 7-9pm, Swindon. Free, RSVP online. About In 1863 the Paris Salon rejected thousands of paintings. So the rejected artists hung their own show down the road and called it the Salon des Refusés. It turned out to contain the future of art. We are doing ours in Swindon. Studio BRUT's first group exhibition brings together work that got turned down somewhere else: the open call that said no, the gallery that never replied, the sculpture that went boom in the kiln, the piece the artist never showed anybody. Painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, print, photography and digital work, all made by hand by people, no AI. Every work hangs next to the story of its rejection, written by the artist. The rejection is not the embarrassing bit to leave out. It is the exhibition. One night only: Friday 4 December, 7 to 9pm, at Studio BRUT, Arclite House, Century Road, Peatmoor, Swindon SN5 5YN. Free entry, RSVP at studiobrut.art/salon-rsvp. Free parking in front of the building. Studio BRUT is a community art studio in Swindon run by SLART and Harrie Dearing. Bold Raw Untamed. Read more Toggle Painting Digital Sculpture Crafts Prints Photography Drawing