[EVOLVER] Saturday 5 November 26 May - 10 June 2012 DORSET VISUAL ARTS presents DORSET VISUAL ARTS presents The Great Dorset Art Fair Dorset Art Weeks 2012 Kingston Mauward, Dorchester Open Studios • Exhibitions • Events 10am - 4pm 800 artists at 300 venues Entry: Dorset Art Weeks - DAW - is the biennial event run £5 • Kids Free • DVA Members £2.50 by Dorset Visual Arts. See: DAW is reputedly the country’s largest Open Studio Fine Arts, Video, Photography, Design, Ceramics, Event - with over 800 artists exhibiting work in over Furniture, Performative Arts and more by professional 300 venues. More than 120,000 studio visits were artists, designers and makers, arts organisations, registered in 2010 galleries, students and suppliers To enrich the event, demonstrations and cultural Revealed through: events will take place across Dorset. The Allsop Demonstrations, Displays and Stalls, Art Books and Gallery at Bridport Arts Centre will become a Materials. Live and Recorded Presentations working studio. You will, of course, know the event is Find out: upon us when you see the flowering of the red and Learn more about materials, processes and products. yellow banners and road signs. Interact with artists. Find out more about the rich One of the enduring appeals of Open Studios is the variety of visual arts that are taking place across quality of welcome visitors receive from artists. Of Dorset, including festivals, ambitious new projects and course they are interested in selling work - but they workshops are keen to share their ideas and techniques with Join in: local people and visitors to Dorset. • As an artist, designer or maker - via the Art Market As the event draws near, look out for our great • Place, taking a stall or applying to be in one of the brochure and postcards. • curated room sets • As a gallery or arts organisation - apply to exhibit See also the Dorset Art Weeks website: • As a supplier of materials, equipment, art books etc www.dorsetartweeks.co.uk As a visitor: and follow the event on Twitter from March 2012 Experience a great day out Email: [email protected] To apply to participate: Tel: 01305 853100 Follow links from the DVA website homepage NB: To participate as an artist, designer or maker you www.dorsetvisualarts.org will need to be a Member of Dorset Visual Arts. Please or email [email protected] see the DVA website: wwwdorsetvisualarts.org www.dorsetvisualarts.org www.dorsetartweeks.co.uk 2 EVOLVER The Wessex Arts and Culture Guide September and October 2011 EVOLVER 65 Editor SIMON BARBER Assisted by GILBERT QUICK Writer in Residence FIONA ROBINSON (www.fionarobinson.com) Contributing Writers GILBERT QUICK Photographer in Residence ANDY WHALE (www.sevenspringscommercial.co.uk) Illustrator in Residence PAUL BLOW (www.paulblow.com) Graphic Design SIMON BARBER Website OLIVER CONINGHAM at AZTEC MEDIA Front Cover EXHIBIT A UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ: ‘FLOATING STONE’ (Lighthouse, 8 October) (Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm) 2011 EVOLVER P.O. Box 1670, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5YJ ARTIST’S STATEMENT: “I truly believe in the immense power of painting to reveal the deepest mysteries of the human condition. I paint to understand the world around me, discovering unknown territories full of meaning. 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Email: [email protected] 3 VISUAL ARTS ‘CELEBRATING COLOUR’ Until 8 September The Hayloft Gallery, 14 Wick Lane, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 1BU. 10am - 5pm. 01202 428004. Paintings, jewellery and textiles by Ann Davison, Angie Holland, Susan Knights, Linda Patterson, and Brenda Weeks. ‘LANDSCAPE AND INDUSTRY’ Until 10 September Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 10am - 8pm. 01202 781314 / www.lighthousepoole.co.uk. “Photography group the Happy Snappers have worked with artist Joe Stevens to document Poole’s working landscape, its trading estates and shops, the remains of old infrastructures and development of new ones.” WESTERN COUNTIES PHOTOGRAPHIC FEDERATION Until 10 September Rook Lane Arts, Rook Lane Chapel, Bath Street, FROME, BA11 1DN. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. 01373 468040. Photography. GRAHAM CROWLEY “Recent works by one of the UK’s most distinguished contemporary artists, who for over 35 years has been unafraid to explore changing modes of practice, communicating his self-attested ‘stylistic infidelity’. An exclusive limited edition print is available to buy.” 5 September - 19 October: Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, STREET, BA16 0YD. Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5pm. 01458 444187 / www.atkinsongallery.co.uk. EVOLVER PRIZE 2011 Until 10 September Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell ‘SUMMER COLLECTIONS’ ‘ARTISTS OF FAME AND PROMISE’ THE PAPER COOPERATIVE Street, HONITON, EX14 1LX. Tuesday - Saturday Until 2 September Until 3 September Until 3 September 10am - 5pm. 01404 45006 / Brook Gallery, Fore Street, BUDLEIGH Beaux Arts, 12 - 13 York Street, BATH, BA1 1NG. Spacex, 45 Preston Street, EXETER, EX1 1DF. www.thelmahulbert.com. “The top 50 entries SALTERTON, EX9 6NE. Tuesday - Saturday Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01225 Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. for this year’s prize are shown alongside mini- 10.30am - 5pm, Sunday 2 - 5pm. 01395 464850 / www.beauxartsbath.co.uk. “New work 01392 431786 / www.spacex.org.uk. “A family Evolver covers by young people. Come along 443003 / www.brookgallery.co.uk. “Colour, by emerging and established gallery artists friendly exhibition that offers the opportunity to and vote for your favourite.” interest, history and delight.” including Jackie Anderson, Ellen Bell, Sasha explore the use of paper. With free self-guided ‘OLD DOGS - NEW TRICKS’ ‘GLASTONBURY 40+’ Bowles, Andrew Crocker, Matthew Draper, activities, daily workshops, interactive Stewart Edmondson, Chuck Elliott, Fenella Elms, sculptures, artists books and a cafe.” Until 10 September Until 3 September Malthouse Gallery, East Lambrook Manor Somerset Rural Life Museum, Abbey Farm, Caroline Frood, Gareth McCorry, Angeli Sowani, ‘A SILVER THREAD’ and Jason Walker.” Gardens, EAST LAMBROOK, TA13 5HH. Tuesday Chilkwell Street, GLASTONBURY, BA6 8DB. Until 4 September - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 01460 240328 / Tuesday - Saturday and Bank Holiday Monday BLANDFORD ART SOCIETY OPEN 2011 Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, BOVEY www.eastlambrook.com. “New work by three 10am - 5pm. 01458 831197. “Celebrate 40 Until 3 September TRACEY, TQ13 9AF. 10am - 5.30pm. 01626 members of The Royal Photographic Society, years of the Glastonbury Festival with an The Corn Exchange, BLANDFORD. Monday - 8322233 / www.crafts.org.uk. “A range of Justin Orwin, Michael Mammatt, and Jerry exhibition of over 40 photographs.” Friday 10am - 5.30pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm. contemporary craft by Members, as the Devon Mitchell.” 01258 861427. Guild marks 25 years at Riverside Mill.” HARRIS INTERIORS OIL ON CANVAS GALLERY ’WATER FIELD’ ’WATER FERNANDO FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ 4 ‘THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2011’ Until 16 September Lloyd Gill Gallery, Lee House, 13 Beaconsfield Road, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS23 1YE. Monday - Saturday 10am - 4.30pm. 01934 623449 / www.thelloydgillgallery.com. “Annual exhibition of Fine Art graduates.” NANCY CLEMANCE: ‘WE CAN REBUILD HER’ Until 25 September David West Gallery, Town Mill, Mill Lane, LYME REGIS, DT7 3PU. Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 4pm. 01297 443579 / www.townmill.org.uk. “This exhibition focuses on bricolage - the art of making something out of what exists. The installation and photographic works parallel the physical renovation of an original shepherds hut.” ‘COASTAL LIGHT SERIES: 017’ ‘GLASTONBURY ABBEY IN PAINTINGS, PRINTS MARTYN BREWSTER: ‘COASTAL LIGHT’ AND DRAWINGS’ Until 28 September “A new body of abstract paintings, drawings and prints reflecting and developing his