DAW_2018_BROCHURE_COVER [3]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 15:49 Page 1 DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DORSET ART FREE GUIDE OPEN STUDIOS, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS 26 MAY –26 MAY 10 JUNE 26 MAY – 10 JUNE 2018 26 MAY – 10 JUNE 2018 OPEN STUDIOS, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS DORSET VISUAL ARTS DORSET COTTAGES DORSET VISUAL ARTS DAW_2018_BROCHURE_COVER [3]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 15:49 Page 2 DORSET VISUAL ARTS DVA is a not for profit organisation and registered charity. It has a membership of some 300 artists, designers and makers living and practising in the county, some with national and international reputations. We are currently developing a number of opportunities for our members working across the spectrum of the visual arts with a focus on creative and professional development. Making Dorset www.dorsetvisualarts.org The driving ambition behind this grouping is to bring high quality design and making to new markets within and beyond Dorset. We aim to develop the group’s identity further to become recognised nationally and Dorset Art Weeks internationally. Membership of the OPEN STUDIOS group is by selection. EXHIBITIONS EVENTS DORSET DAW is an open studio event open to all artists practising in Dorset, regardless of DVA membership. VISUAL Produced by DVA, it is its biennial, Membership Groups flagship event. Reputedly the largest biennial open studios event in the ARTS INTERROGATING PROJECTS country. The event attracts around For those wanting to benefit from 125,000 studio visits. Visitors are interaction with other artists. The focus fascinated by seeing how artists work of group sessions is on creative and and the varied types of environment professional development. When they work in. exhibiting, the focus is on displaying artists’ research and development DAW 2018 HEADLINE SPONSORS The DVA Team material and works in progress. Hall & Woodhouse Jem Main - Artistic Director Wyke Dorset Cottages Suzy Rushbrook - Programme Curator / Membership Manager THE SALON Rachel Dunford - Lead Co-ordinator / Communications Manager A selected fine art group, bringing DAW 2018 MEDIA PARTNERS together established and recent Evolver Mandy Rathbone - Finance Simon Barber - Graphic Design graduate fine artists, much along the Sherborne Times lines of a traditional ‘sketch book Bridport Times DVA Chair: Jim Hunter club’. The primary purpose is to www.dorsetartweeks.co.uk Little Keep, Barrack Road, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1SQ encourage critical debate, share 01305 853100 / [email protected] creative knowledge and experiences, Charity No. 1113249 and prompt various collaborations. DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 1 WELCOME TO DAW 2018 Last year marked 25 years since the original Dorset Art Week event took place back in 1992 - how time flies! Artists have come and gone but some remain the same and have been loyal to the event for many years. We have seen careers go from strength to strength, welcomed emerging artists and can look back with pride to those who are no longer with us. We have marked this occasion by giving the event a new contemporary design. We hope you will enjoy this fresh new look, with a new website and a new designer, ready to look forward to the next 25 years! Please use this unique opportunity to tour the county’s back roads and country lanes, as well as the conurbations of Bournemouth and Poole. Interact with artists about their processes and what inspires them, as well as seeing finished works on display. As you can see from the growing venue numbers, the event continues to thrive. We hope you enjoy DAW 2018 and please follow us on social media for any last minute opportunities or updates. The DVA Team DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 2 DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 3 DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 4 EVENTS AI WEI WEI: HUMAN FLOW (Other Side at Haydon Church, Saturday 9 June) DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 5 Make a Seat in Carving Workshops Thorncombe Wood 26 MAY - 10 JUNE SATURDAY 26 MAY AND Venue 183: Moignes Court, SATURDAY 2 JUNE Owermoigne, near Dorchester, DT2 8HY. 11am - 3pm. Free Hardy’s Birthplace Visitor entry. 07894 959698 / 07814 Centre, Higher Bockhampton, 659143. DT2 8QH. 10am - 4pm. Bookings: 01305 251228. Neith Art will be demonstrating carving, using chainsaws and Using greenwood techniques and Lyme in Dark Glass traditional tools. Creating material from Thorncombe Wood complete sculptures (start to finish you will be working through SATURDAY 26 MAY roughly an hour) as well as selection, cleaving, shaping, The Lyme Regis Museum, Lyme Regis, DT7 3QA. 11am - 4pm. £8. working on larger pieces. See carving, sawing and drilling to Booking: 01404 45006 (Thelma Hulbert Gallery). Venue 183 for opening days. make a stool. All tools and Work with artist Jenny Mellings to paint using natural pigments and try materials are provided and you the 18th Century Claude Glass as a way of capturing the landscape. don’t need any previous Family Life Drawing experience. The day will begin at Lyme Regis Museum with a short introduction to Class the Claude Glass used by landscape painters in the era before Karen Hansen will instruct and SATURDAY 2 JUNE photography. We will proceed with painting equipment to a suitable the work will be suitable for any location along the coast, before returning to the Museum in time for a Venue 183: Moignes Court, adult individual who is physically lunch break. Owermoigne, near Dorchester, able. Children of 10 years or more DT2 8HY. 2 - 4 pm. Free entry. can be included if they work with Meet again in the Museum education room to assess the morning's work, 07894 959698 / 07814 659143. an adult friend. If you would like and prepare to walk to a second site in the afternoon. Return to the Museum for an assembly and review of your paintings! Alex and Penny Cree will host a to talk to Karen beforehand free family life drawing class, please get in touch on 07948 All ages and abilities welcome. Minimum age 8, all materials provided. suitable for ages 4 to 104, for 445540. Do wear good walking shoes, dress for all weathers, and bring lunch. A beginners, professionals and The workshop is run as part of camping seat may also be useful if you have one. In the case of severe everyone in between. Materials Making Dorset and takes place wind and rain, the entire workshop will take place in the museum. provided, just bring a sketchbook over two days. This event will also be taking place again on Saturday 6 October. or some paper. DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 6 West Dorset Pottery Tea Party SATURDAY 26 MAY Venue 307: North Eggardon Farm, Powerstock, DT6 3ST. 4 - 8pm. Free entry. 07746 941654 / www.westdorsetpottery.com Eeles Pottery Tours and Firings 26 MAY - 10 JUNE Venue 291: Eeles Family Pottery, Mosterton, near Beaminster, DT8 3HN. Firings 11am, 12noon, Family Workshop 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm, tours THURSDAY 31 MAY between firings. 01308 868257 / www.eelespottery.co.uk Venue 170: The Walled Garden, Feel the excitement of red hot Station Road, Moreton, raku pots lifted from the kiln and Dorchester, DT2 8RH. 10.30am - placed onto sawdust that 12.30pm. £10 per family (up to instantaneously combusts into an 4 people). Booking inferno of flames. recommended: Amanda Wallwork: www.walledgardenmoreton.co.uk Furleigh Estate Back by popular demand - make Mapping the South Dorset Ridgeway an illuminated sculpture from Vineyard Tours EXHIBITION: THURSDAY 7 - SATURDAY 9 JUNE willow and paper. Wear old 26 MAY - 10 JUNE ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY 7 JUNE clothes. All materials provided. Furleigh Farm, Salwayash, Top Floor Studio, The Old Timberyard, West Bay Road, West Bay, Salway Ash, DT6 5JF. Friday and DT6 4EL. Exhibition: 11am - 5pm. Talk: 6.30pm, free but booking Othona Artists Talk Saturday 11am and 2.30pm. essential. Details: [email protected] / TUESDAY 5 JUNE 01308 488991 / www.southdorsetridgeway.org.uk / www.amandawallwork.com www.furleighestate.co.uk Venue 245: Othona Community, Exhibition showing work inspired by the geology and archaeology of the Coast Road, near Burton Furleigh Estate: Meet South Dorset Ridgeway including the originals of a series of Bradstock, DT6 4RN. 7.30 for commissioned maps exploring the rich landscape heritage of this area. 8pm start. Drinks available. the Artists For the talk on 7 June Amanda will discuss her work for the project - Donations welcome. THURSDAY 7 JUNE joined by James Sharpe, Manager of the South Dorset Ridgeway Talk by the exhibiting artists Furleigh Farm, Salwayash, Landscape Partnership. Come and find out about the making of the maps Emma C Tabor, Robin Shaw, Ali Salway Ash, DT6 5JF. 11am - and this enigmatic landscape. Tebbs, Mart Tebbs and Elizabeth 3pm. www.furleighestate.co.uk Commission supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England Sayers. DORSET ART WEEKS 2018 DAW_2018_BROCHURE_144[4]_Layout 1 14/03/2018 13:17 Page 7 AFTER ART WEEKS Celebrating the Arts SATURDAY 23 JUNE Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AA. Free entry. 01935 815899 / www.sherborneartslink.org.uk. Talks, demonstrations, café, mini tea dance, activities, art exhibits. Get involved! Join us in Farrs Open Day celebrating the wonderful creativity of people in Sherborne SUNDAY 10 JUNE and the surrounding area. Farrs, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3NB. Bridport & West Dorset 10.30am - 4.30pm. Entry £5, Open Studios children free. In aid of Dorset Visual Arts Charity. 25 - 27 AUGUST AND 8 - 16 SEPTEMBER International furniture maker John Dozens of venues in Bridport Makepeace and horticulturalist Other Side at Haydon Church and West Dorset.