Priory Cottage, Priory Lane, Bridport
THE DORSET PAVILION will be exhibiting at Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset from 8th Feb-15th Mar 2025.
Returning from its triumphant debut in Venice with over 7000 visitors from 41 countries – The Pavilion is a refreshing playful celebration of the bounty of Dorset. With an earthy mix of contemporary artworks, it challenges conventional expectations of regional art with ideas that stretch internationally. Through the materiality of work - or through direct activist commentary on land and sea the exhibition provides a deep understanding of local roots, community and geology which is essential at this time of environmental crisis. It speaks to deep time; the land: the political; the literary; and the historical.
“Town of Culture” and “Lost Sheep Productions” has partnered with the renowned “Common Ground” to present established art world figures such as Andy Goldsworthy, P J Harvey and Jem Southam alongside a traditional Tolpuddle Union banner of the Martyrs and Bibby Stockholm by Ed Hall; an exquisite fossil design by Will White; sheepskin artwork by Alexa de Ferranti and Lower Hewood Farm; a Brexit “mourning” Murano glass work by Sophie Molins; stills (featuring Michael Clark as a dancing sailor) by David Appleby from Bill Douglas' classic film Comrades – and a film by recent Glasgow School of Art graduate Robyn Bamford; alongside ceramics by Jacy Wall, Amanda Wallwork, Fiamma Colonna Montagu and Silva deMajo, painters Grace Crabtree, Jane Fox, Jeremy Gardiner, Henrietta Hoyer Miller, John Hubbard, Veronica Hudson, Alan Rogers, Ella Squirrell and Harland Viney. Photographers Helen Harris, Theo McInnes and Thomas Ralph and printmakers Flora Wood and Hugh Dunford Wood and textiles by Nicholas Kalinoski. We are also thrilled to have a large-scale work by Dorset raised New York based artist Ellen Harvey from her extraordinary series The Disappointed Tourist.
A beautiful pamphlet produced by Common Ground; Little Toller books and Lower Hewood farm speaks to these themes with essays by Jon Woolcott and Alexandra Blanchard that focuses on how the “The land lies in the stories; the stories lie also in the land.”
ART ON PROTEST AND JUSTICE
Saturday February 15th 2025, 3.00pm.
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CAUGHT IN A WEB. A DOCUMENTARY OF A DORSET VILLAGE BY TONI DE BROMHEAD
Saturday February 22nd 2025, 2.00pm.
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COMRADES screening
Tuesday February 25th 2025, 7.00pm.
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A CONSIDERATION OF EARTH, BODIES AND STONES
Saturday 1 March 2025, 2.00pm.
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STORYTELLING - TIMELESS TALES AND MAGICAL DOORWAYS
Saturday 8 March, 2025, 2.10pm and 3.10pm.
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THE DORSET PAVILION will be exhibiting from February 8th - March 15th 2025. Tuesday- Saturday, 10am-4pm at Bridport Arts Centre, 9 South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NR.
In 2024 THE DORSET PAVILION exhibited at the Venice Biennale September-October, and during Dorset Arts Week May-June.
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