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EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 1 THE FREE WESSEX ARTS AND CULTURE GUIDE EVOLVER January and February 2019 EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 2 CALL TO ARTISTS Drawn to Dorset Fifty Drawings Drawn to Dorset: Fifty Drawings will explore current themes, trends, and innovations in contemporary drawing practices. We are looking for work that interrogates the boundaries of what drawing is and can be - drawing in all its possibilities. This will be presented in the form of a publication and an exhibition at the Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, Swanage, in July 2019. The selection will be made by an eminent panel: to include an academic, curator and artist in the field of contemporary drawing. To be announced online on Monday 14 January. The publication will focus on an expanded notion of drawing made in Dorset, of Dorset or about Dorset. It will include written contributions contextualising the selection and reflecting new thinking about drawing, with a foreword by Professor Anita Taylor, Executive Dean of Bath School of Art and Design and founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. The publication will retail at an estimated price of £15. Inclusion price is £250 payable on selection. All selected artists will receive 15 copies. See dorsetvisualarts.org for submission details. DORSET VISUAL ARTS + EVOLVER 2 EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 3 EVOLVER 109 EXHIBIT A MATILDA TEMPERLEY: ‘A FIRE IS LIT...’ Photograph ARTIST’S STATEMENT: “I grew up in the shadow of Burrow Hill on the Somerset Levels. Having a commission to explore my own area has been wonderfully eye opening. Looking a little harder at my surroundings has been an incredible adventure. It is more diverse and interesting than I ever imagined, and I have only scratched the surface. While there are portraits of the industries synonymous with the area such as elverers, peat-diggers, cheddar cheese makers, cider farmers and withy growers, I have also tried to reflect Somerset’s alternative communities and a rapidly changing landscape.” ‘A VIEW FROM THE HILL’ Until 1 June: Somerset Rural Life Museum, GLASTONBURY, BA6 8DB. srlm.org.uk. EVOLVER Email [email protected] THE WESSEX ARTS AND CULTURE GUIDE Telephone 01935 808441 Editor SIMON BARBER Website evolver.org.uk Assisted by SUZY RUSHBROOK Instagram evolvermagazine Evolver Writers Twitter @SimonEvolver FIONA ROBINSON www.fionarobinson.com Facebook facebook.com/EvolverMagazine Graphic Design SIMON BARBER Published by EVOLVER MEDIA LIMITED Website OLIVER CONINGHAM at AZTEC MEDIA Pre-Press by FLAYDEMOUSE Front Cover 01935 479453 / flaydemouse.com ‘THE DARK’ Printed by STEPHENS & GEORGE (Lighthouse, Poole, 31 January) Distributed by ACOUSTIC Photograph by Carolyn Hill / Chillcreate 07456 009377 / [email protected] EVOLVER MEDIA DEADLINE FOR EVOLVER 110 8 BUCKLAND ROAD, PEN MILL TRADING ESTATE, March and April 2019 YEOVIL, SOMERSET BA21 5EA THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY 3 EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 4 VISUAL ARTS January and February 2019 ALBERT IRVIN ‘ALMADA’ (Acrylic on canvas, 2134 x 3048 cm, 1985) ALBERT IRVIN AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism will hold its own against Geddes’ raison d’être as curator was to illuminate the impact on any exhibition staged by any major UK national art institution in Irvin in 1959 of seeing the work of Jackson Pollock and the other 2019. In his opening speech Sir Nicholas Serota praised the Americans. This experience, together with his meeting with Peter courage and ambition of the exhibition curated with such vision Lanyon, kick-started a gradual process of abandoning figuration in by RWA President Stewart Geddes. favour of the language of abstraction. Irvin’s early figurative work appears here with contemporaries from the so-called Kitchen Sink The importance of revisiting the original abstract expressionism School like John Bratby and works by RWA Academicians, Sandra show alongside the first retrospective of Albert Irvin’s work cannot Blow, Gillian Ayres, Lanyon and Basil Beattie. These artists were be underestimated. either personal friends, Lanyon, Beattie and Tworkov, or influences Albert Irvin’s stunning paintings with their signature glorious on his work. colour fill the two main galleries. A further gallery presents an According to Irvin no one in hindsight can really appreciate the homage to The New American Painting, the groundbreaking massive impact of the American abstract works on contemporary exhibition which toured eight European cities and came to the artists of the time. It showed them and him what was possible, in Tate Gallery in London in 1959. The 1959 exhibition was political. terms of gesture and scale. Geddes explains: “You can see what At the height of the cold war it demonstrated the freedoms of the Irvin is doing. The experimentation is explained in purely visual west. It also signaled that the dominance of Paris as the centre of terms. You see a conceptually complex shift in someone’s work the art world was coming to an end. America was taking over that through a visual essay rather than a text based essay.” He goes on mantle. to quote Irvin: “we don’t defend the intelligence of the visual The RWA show contextualises Irvin’s work by placing it with major language enough”. For Irvin it was unnecessary to explain the American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de visual with words. The work itself was sufficient and this is the Kooning, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Sam Francis. achievement of this show. It allows the visual to speak for itself. There are two works, Adam by Barnett Newman and Cradle by Fiona Robinson Jack Tworkov, from the original exhibition and Grace Hartigan who was the only woman included is represented here by a work Until 3 March: Royal West of England Academy, Queens Road, that has, together with the Tworkov, been shipped from the US. BRISTOL, BS8 1PX. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5.30pm, Sunday There are no Grace Hartigan works in public collections in the UK. 11am - 5pm. £7.95 / £6.75. rwa.org.uk. 4 EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 5 VISUAL ARTS ‘ROOTED IN THE LANDSCAPE’ ‘HOMEWARD BOUND’ Until 5 January Until 6 January Dorset County Hospital, Williams Purbeck New Wave Gallery, 25 Avenue, DORCHESTER, DT1 2JY. 8am - Commercial Road, SWANAGE, BH19 8pm. 01305 255144 / 1DF. Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm. dchft.nhs.uk/about/arts. “A fresh new purbecknewwave.co.uk. touring exhibition featuring works by NAOMI HART: ‘SOME FAR OFF artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Marc MAGIC LAND’ Quinn, Keith Vaughan and Turner Prize- Until 7 January nominated Janice Kerbel.” Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen ‘HOARDS: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF Street, EXETER, EX4 3RX. Tuesday - ANCIENT BRITAIN’ Sunday 10am - 5pm. £5 / £3. 01392 Until 5 January 265858 / www.rammuseum.org.uk. The Salisbury Museum, The King’s “From the forests of France to the House, 65 The Close, SALISBURY, SP1 deserts of Australia, this exhibition 2EN. Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. conveys a sense of place and the £8 / £4. 01722 332151 / mystery that we can find there.” salisburymuseum.org.uk. “Discover fabulous buried treasure in this British Museum touring exhibition, which focuses on hoarding in prehistoric and Roman Britain. Find out why ancient people put precious objects in the ground and why they did not retrieve them.” ‘BEST OF THE SOUTH WEST 2018’ Until 5 January Town Hall, Market Street, TROWBRIDGE, BA14 8EQ. Monday - EMILY ENDEAN: ‘SUNRISE TO Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - SUNSET’ 2pm. townhallarts.co.uk. “A selection Until 13 January of work by talented artists who have Café Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery graduated from their BA degrees this and Museum, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 year. Outstanding contemporary work 3AA. Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm. by emerging artists.” £7.50. russellcotes.com. ‘MAP 2018’ Until 5 January Main Gallery, Lighthouse, Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01202 280000 / lighthousepoole.co.uk. “Second year BA (Hons) Architecture students work on linking closely to Poole’s industrial past, possible future, and the ethos of AUB’s maker culture.” ‘MORE FIBRE YARNS’ Until 5 January ‘DEPERSONALISATION’ The Bibbern Gallery, The Exchange, Old Market Hill, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1FH. 9am - 6pm. 01258 472041 / JAMIE GALLAGHER: ‘PATTERNED LAND’ stur-exchange.co.uk. Until 13 January ‘MAKE 2018’ POST NORMALITY REALITY Hubnub Centre, Whittox Lane, FROME, Until 6 January BA11 3BY. Tuesday - Friday 9am - 5pm, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, DISORDER Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm. Riverside Mill, BOVEY TRACEY, Devon, “Debut solo show by figurative painter Jamie Gallagher. His collection 07712 523734 / hubnubcentre.com. TQ13 9AF. 10am - 5.30pm. 01626 of heavily textural impasto works explores the psychological effects on “Susanna Lisle’s work combines both 832223 / crafts.org.uk. “Devon Guild’s form, colour and texture with annual selling exhibition, filled to the humanity of the current extremes of social, political and cultural geometric pattern and space. Recently brim with charming craft and design by disruption.” inspired by Somerset gardens and the UK’s most exciting makers.” 26 January - 24 March: The Hubnub Gallery, Hubnub Centre, Whittox seasonal landscape combining the Lane, FROME, BA11 3BY. Tuesday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday and repeating pattern of hexagons echoed in flowers and seed heads.” Sunday 10am - 5pm. 07712 523734 / hubnubcentre.com. 5 EVOLVER_109:Layout 1 19/12/2018 19:26 Page 6 VISUAL ARTS ANTHONY GARRATT ‘LIGHT AND FLOOD’ (90 x 90 cm) TIDAL “Anthony Garratt, David West and Petter Southall are three exploratory artists working in different media, all fascinated by tidal water and shorelines, responding to them in bold gestural paintings, carved painted and gilded wood carvings, and in steam-bent streamlined furniture design.” 26 January - 10 March: Sladers Yard, West Bay, BRIDPORT, DT6 4EL.