A QUAKER art project which uses textile artworks to explore the threats to the natural world from environmental and climate change – and human behaviour – is coming to Wincanton over the weekend of 7th to 9th July. Loving Earth is an international touring exhibition of panels by artists of all ages, some highly skilled…
ONE of this area’s most respected and popular artists, painter Charlie Baird returns to The Art Stable, at Gold Hill Farm, Child Okeford, from 17th June to 14th July, with a new collection of work, much of it inspired by visits to some of the furthest points of the British Isles – the Outer Hebrides,…
SLADERS Yard, the leading contemporary gallery and arts venue in West Bay, hosts a major exhibition celebrating the life and work of Philip Sutton, from 20th May to 8th July, ahead of his 95th birthday in October. The 100-plus works include paintings from the family collection, released for the first time, alongside works on canvas,…
AN exhibition of the South West Coast Path depicted in textile art is touring the region this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the West Country Embroiderers group. Currently at Truro Cathedral, the exhibition of a number of landmarks, including St Michael’s Mount and the dramatic rocks on the north Cornish coast, will be…
THE New Art Centre, the contemporary art gallery at Roche Court, Winterslow near Salisbury, has a major sculpture by Antony Gormley. The large cast iron piece, Before, stands in airy woodlands full of bluebells in the beautiful grounds surrounding the main building. Gormley (b.1950) is one of the world’s most eminent sculptors. After studying at…
THE great Louise Bourgeois has an international reputation as an artist and sculptor – but will always be most widely known for her giant spider sculpture, which gives its name to the title of a film being shown at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Wednesday 3rd May at 7pm. Coinciding with Dorset Museum’s Artist Rooms: Louise…
THE new exhibition at Make South West, the makers gallery at Bovey Tracey, is a potent and thought-provoking display of the response of 35 international artists to the challenge of transforming knives into works of art. Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels, on at the Devon gallery until 13th May, is a touring exhibition curated…
NIGEL Bird, whose recent work is on show at The Slade Centre in Gillingham, is absorbed in the reality and the experience of landscape. The exhibition, ‘Product and Process, runs from Saturday 29th April to Saturday 10th June. Gallery owner Anne Hitchcock says: “At an early meeting, while looking at work which might feature in this…
THE new exhibition at The Art Stable, at Gold Hill Organic Farm, Child Okeford, is a retrospective of David Gommon, (1913-87), an artist whose work was championed by Lucy Wertheim, of the Burlington Gallery. Running from 29th April until 27th May, David Gommon: A Lifetime’s Adventure in Art, follows an exhibition in the summer of…
THE 2023 annual Shaftesbury Abbey lecture on Thursday 27th April looks back to life in medieval convents, through the eyes of contemporary artists, when art historian, Dr John Renner, of the Courtauld Institute, gives an illustrated talk on Art in the Medieval Convent – the Pictorial Life of Nuns in Italy. The spring lecture takes…