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EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:29 Page 1 THE FREE WESSEX ARTS AND CULTURE GUIDE EVOLVER July and August 2019 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:29 Page 2 Tincleton Gallery contemporary fine art in Dorset gallery and guest artists Summer Colours Fri 12th July – Sat 17th August An exploration of the Purbeck coastline by Boilerhouse artists and guests WEDNESDAY 24 JULY - SUNDAY 11 AUGUST “Showing Off 2” by Ken Nemar The Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston, Swanage, Dorset Open daily 10am - 4.30pm The Old School House, Tincleton, near Dorchester, DT2 8QR The gallery at Corfe Castle is open 10am - 5pm every day, Friday / Saturday / Sunday / Monday • 10am – 5pm except Sunday, throughout the summer 01305 848909 • www.tincletongallery.com 2 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:29 Page 3 EVOLVER 112 EXHIBIT A PAUL NEWMAN: ‘UNDER THE OATH TREE’ Graphite on Bristol Board (25 x 30 cm, 2018) ARTIST’S STATEMENT: “A response to the Tolpuddle Sycamore, under which the Martyrs met. It is a story passed down through my family, from my grandfather telling me about the struggles of the Martyrs to my father taking me to see the tree. A tree as witness, document and storyteller, events entwined and embedded in its growth.” ‘DRAWING ON DORSET’ 5 - 17 July: The Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park, SWANAGE, BH19 2JL. 10am - 5pm. dorsetvisualarts.org. paulnewmanartist.com 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 Writer 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 DEBBIE LEE: ‘SACK RACE’ Printed by STEPHENS & GEORGE (Monoprint) Distributed by ACOUSTIC Evolver Prize 2019 Winner 07456 009377 / [email protected] EVOLVER MEDIA DEADLINE FOR EVOLVER 113 8 BUCKLAND ROAD, PEN MILL TRADING ESTATE, September and October 2019 YEOVIL, SOMERSET BA21 5EA WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST 3 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:29 Page 4 EVOLVER PRIZE 2019 TOP 50 Winner DEBBIE LEE Sack Race EVOLVER 4 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:30 Page 5 EVOLVER PRIZE 2019 ALEX KENNEDY ANDREW DAVEY ANNA WEBB ANNIE WARD BARBARA ROLL The Sunday Morning Shopper Apex The Wall Bridge Relaxing Chair BRIAN RICE BRYAN LAVELLE CHRIS DUNSEATH CLAIRE GLADSTONE CLAIRE GLADSTONE Waculgar Tipping Point #1 Hinton Oak with Cern Plan Lino Rocks! 1 Lino Rocks! 2 CLIVE BIRNIE DAVID BROOKE DAVID BROWNING DAVID SMITH DAVID SMITH The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square A Flight of Fancy Decay of 1,000 Years A Few Lines of Magic for Simon Colourful Black Square 19 DEBBIE LEE ESME LLOYD FIONA HINGSTON FIONA SHAW GEOFF SHILLITO Sack Race Type #1 Home City Scape 7 Head on Yellow THE SELECTORS SIMON BARBER (Editor, Evolver) • ADRIAN BOOT (Photographer) • DR FRAN NORTON (Artist / Educator) 5 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:30 Page 6 EVOLVER PRIZE 2019 GINA MARSHALL HELEN BRASHER HENNY BURNETT JACOB BODILLY KATHERINE TAYLOR Corfe Castle Coast Walk 1 Carolina House Chamber Human Error KEITH ROGERS KEITH SMITH LOUISE TUNNARD LUCAS WESCHKE LYNDA RUTH BROWN Sound Waves Beneath Dissolving Form Man with Fish Landwork 2 Golden Cap 6 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:30 Page 7 EVOLVER PRIZE 2019 MARK BROOKES MICHAEL COPSEY NOAH WARNES PAULINE PEARCE PRUDENCE MALTBY Mask Glass Head Skull Series - 1 Marblelous Glad Eye REBECCA LISLE REMY LLOYD RICHARD SERCOMBE RODNEY MCFALL SHARON JAMES Snow Fall on Cedars Aspirateur Extreme Portrait of Frank Hornby In Search of the Colossal Squid Playa STEPHANIE MAX STEVEN MARSHALL TIM DUKE TIM MOUNT TONY MARTIN Plastic World #2 Very Them Mont Plastique Aftermath Kinsol C VICTORIA MARDON YVONNE MORTON ZARA MCQUEEN ZOE BARKER ZOE BARKER Sunbeams Field As The Crow Flies (detail) Horse Wallpaper EVOLVER PRIZE 2019 EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY MOUNT • SILK MILL • FROME • MOUNT-ART.CO.UK 7 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:30 Page 8 VISUAL ARTS July and August 2019 LIZ NICOL ‘THIEPVAL’ (Gelatin silver print, 2019) WHERE FUNCTION ENDS To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth entirely classical building - signals the establishing the design language for the of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869 - 1944), direction Lutyens’ architecture was to take war cemeteries and memorials that were Hestercombe Gallery presents new work in the 20th century. constructed along the Western Front and by three artists that responds to the legacy An installation by internationally-renowned all over the world. Nicol has visited the of the man whose designs transformed the artist Alex Hartley will explore the cemeteries designed by Lutyens and his Hestercombe site. The Formal Garden at contested relationship between Lutyens’ Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Hestercombe, built for the Portman family architecture and Modernism, the dominant Thiepval, and explored the ways in which between 1904 and 1908, is one of the architectural language of the mid 20th he developed his ‘elemental mode’, finest and most ambitious examples of century. As part of his series The Houses, inspired by the orders and rules of Lutyens’ garden design partnership with Hartley will create new works for Classical architecture, to articulate private Gertrude Jekyll. Hestercombe, depicting iconic British and public acts of remembrance on a Artist in residence Oliver Sutherland has Modernist houses. These will be shown monumental scale. been recording this garden and holding alongside items from the Hestercombe Curator Kate Best said: “This exhibition conversations with members of the archive, original drawings by Lutyens on brings together the work of three gardening team at Hestercombe loan from the Royal Institute of British outstanding artists with a group of Lutyens’ throughout 2018 and 2019. In a moving Architects and Drawing Matter, and original sketches and plans, including some image work that layers performance, photographs by Gertrude Jekyll. of those for Hestercombe, to explore his sound and written narratives, Sutherland Photographer Liz Nicol has developed her architecture at Hestercombe and beyond. explores the Formal Garden as a ongoing research into acts of The 150th anniversary of Lutyens’ birth technological space, akin to the simulated commemoration by making a body of work marks the perfect point for us to look at spaces found in the worlds of films and about Lutyens’ designs for the Imperial Hestercombe’s rich history in a wider gaming, but only obtainable through (now Commonwealth) War Graves context and consider Lutyens’ work afresh excessive labour. Commission. The Commission was set up through the eyes of contemporary artists.” Lutyens and Jekyll’s scheme for during the First World War to deal with the 14 July - 27 October: Hestercombe Hestercombe deployed a design language scale of the losses during that conflict and Gallery, Hestercombe Gardens, Cheddon they developed from the Arts and Crafts the collective need to recover, bury and Road, CHEDDON FITZPAINE, near tradition, but with its striking geometry commemorate the dead. Lutyens, in Taunton, TA2 8LG. 11am - 5pm. 01823 and the imposing Orangery - Lutyens’ first consultation with Jekyll, was a key force in 410131 / hestercombe.com. 8 EVOLVER_112_SB3:Layout 1 23/06/2019 22:30 Page 9 VISUAL ARTS KEVIN JONES: ‘FREE STRUCTURE’ Until 1 July Meeting Room, Wells & Mendip Museum, Cathedral Green, WELLS, BA5 2UE. Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. £3. 01749 673477. “Line, space and colour combine to create these very original, free structured artworks.” ‘MASTERS OF INVENTION’ Until 7 July Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, BOVEY TRACEY, Devon, TQ13 9AF. 10am – 5.30pm. 01626 832223 / crafts.org.uk. “Challenging perceptions of graffiti writing culture, whilst expanding traditional definitions of art, craft and design, this bold exhibition by leading UK and European artists explores the evolution of graffiti art.” ALAN DAVIE Until 7 July Tincleton Gallery, TINCLETON, Dorchester, DT2 8QR. Friday - Monday 10am - 5pm. 01305 848909 / tincletongallery.com. ‘COLOURS OF DORSET’ Until 7 July Eype Centre for the Arts, St Peter’s Chapel, Mount Lane, EYPE, Bridport, DT6 6AT. 10am - 5pm. 07958 756368 / eypechurcharts.co.uk. “A third annual exhibition of uniquely colourful and inspiring paintings by Caroline Liddington and Lynne Grace. Highly original, large and small paintings of the ocean, and intriguing interior and exterior landscapes.” MICHELLE GRIFFITHS ‘FOCUS ON SANITY’ (Oil on canvas, 117 x 137 cm) GROUP 7: COLOUR VALUES “Group 7 are Brian Bishop, Martyn Brewster, Bonnie Brown, Fran Donovan, Michelle Griffiths, Ursula Leach and Peter Symonds, a collective of seven artists who have been engaged in research and practical exploration of colour over a substantial period of time. Although their work is different the artists share some common thoughts on the use and importance of colour, including memory, emotion, feelings, mood, expression and evocation as well as the formal functions of colour.” Until 20 July: ACE Arts, Market Place, SOMERTON, TA11 7NB. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01458 MIKE SERVICE: ‘STILL LIFES AND 273008 / acearts.co.uk. 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    Mendip ROCKS! 2015 — October 2015 — The popular Mendip Rocks! Festival is back again this October, Admission Charges - Free unless otherwise stated. A donation of £3/adult, £1/ bringing to life the fascinating rocks that have created the child is welcome towards the Mendip Rocks! Project. Mendip Hills. Step back in time and explore an amazing 420 Booking - Events do not require booking unless otherwise stated. million years of geology right under your feet. A wide range of Mendip Rocks! 2015 festival is organised by the Somerset Earth Science Centre events will reveal the ancient stories that have shaped a unique in partnership with the Mendip Hills AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural and very special landscape. It’s a great chance to see some of Beauty) with kind support from Natural England and Somerset Wildlife Trust. Mendip’s best kept geological secrets, with many events being Full programme of festival events is available on the following website: held at sites that are not usually open to the general public. There www.somersetwildlife.org/rocks is something for everyone from family fun days to guided walks General enquiries or for a copy of programme: Adel Avery, 01749 840240 in working quarries for adults with some geological knowledge. [email protected] Sat 3 Oct 11am – 3pm Thurs 8 Oct 2pm - 4pm Let’s Rock! at Somerset Earth Science Centre Dorset & Somerset Canal History Walk (SESC) around Edford and Coleford Hands-on activities provided by our Mendip Rocks! Festival A guided walk with Derrick Hunt of the D&S Canal Society, to team. Fun family activities to inspire you about our rocky see the remains of the unfinished canal in the East Mendips world and tempt you to come along to our festival of events around Edford, and Coleford.