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null Berkeley Square Hotel and the Square Gallery

As Banksy’s controversial works grabbed the headlines last year in the stoutly baroque Bristol Museum, it is fitting that a hundred metres away, a seemingly traditional Georgian terrace hides Bristol’s first Gallery Hotel.

Sitting atop the Square Gallery, Berkeley Square Hotel offers visitors a stunning and unique visual experience, immersing them in art for the duration of their stay. After entering the hotel, a glass door reveals the Square Gallery beyond. This ground floor room and basement below are permanent exhibition spaces that have played host to works by over fifty artists since 2007.

A surprisingly large and subtle video installation can be found on the back wall of this first room. The installation is the work of London video art gallery, Open. Open specialise in large scale projected video and represent a group of artists who have been pioneering a new medium since 2001 which is beginning to revolutionise moving imagery – the video painting. These artists have recently exhibited video paintings at the Hayward, the ICA, Sketch Gallery, Shunt Vaults and the Institute of Art and Ideas. The Square has invited Open to curate an ongoing programme of video exhibitions in Bristol which includes a second installation in the basement space.

In addition to these installations the Square Gallery presents four exhibitions each year of new work across a variety of media. The opening of each exhibition is marked by an evening private view, which offers art lovers across Bristol the chance to come and enjoy the Square experience and meet the artists whose work makes the space so special. The latest exhibition celebrates two years of art excellence with the works of Toby Mulligan, Sara da Costa and Freya Cumming.

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Additionally, the hotel above the gallery is home to an impressive permanent art collection. Each floor has been given over to a single artist whose original works permeate the bedrooms and public spaces - Sanchita Islam, Anthony Garratt, Julian Cox, Kathy Luders and Katalina Szom'Bath.

This passion for art has now expanded across the Clifton Hotel Group with Julian Cox, a member of the Royal Bristish Society of Sculptors, exhibiting his abstract work at The Clifton and The Rodney Hotel. Guests can now partake in their very own Art Trail within the Hotel Group by enjoying the displays on show across our properties.

*All exhibited work is available for purchase*