What's on in and around the Vale
Museums and Galleries
July 2008

Until 2 July: David Nicholls sculpture and Claire Streather paintings. White Stones, Easton St, Portland. 01305 860003.

2 July - 30 August: Summer Exhibition featuring Frances Pollard, ceramics, Clare Shepherd, paintings and Joy Shepherd, Monoprints and Linocuts. Acanthus Gallery, Wareham. 01929 555331.

4 - 12 July: Like this remembered place... Paintings by Charles Hallsworth. Original Art at the Hayloft Gallery, Christchurch. 0776 847 6603.

Until 5 July: The Journey Sequence 2007 ongoing series of linear paintings and drawings that track a movement through a specific landscape on a particular day becoming tracings of the terrain, also representing mappings of memory and movement and the impossibility of recapturing the past. The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole Lighthouse. 0844 406 8666.

Until 5 July: Nicholas St John Rosse new work of images of summer by the sea. Peter Hedley Gallery, Wareham. 01929 551777.

8 July - 13 July: Love, War & Peace Solo Exhibition of work by Yve Sturgeon. Unique collection of 2D and 3D work around the themes of Love, War & Peace.
The exhibition includes installations, ceramics, sculptures, paintings and drawings ... a journey through life ... Upstairs at Galleryeight, 8 Market Place, Glastonbury. www.galleryeight.com, 01458 833574.

8 July - 29 August: Waiting: introducing print artist Catherine Cartwright. A menagerie of doves sits patiently, waiting for their time. They are the moments of peace that lie in the background under the cacophony of disruption and war. A range of media and printmaking methods create this installation including drypoint, perspex engravings and relief prints. Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix.

Until 11 July: Michael Morgan RI at 80 Marine House, Beer. 01297 625257.

Until 12 July: Painting with a Needle 2 Embroidery exhibition by Diane & Debbie Tiltman who create original textile pictures using a range of all free hand embroidery. C W Groves & Sons (Garden Centre), West Bay Road, Bridport. 01308 422654.

Until 13 July: Beaminster Festival Exhibitions: Beaminster & District Camera Club annual Exhibition; Beaminster School’s Photographic Department ‘Highways and Byways’ by The Festival Textile Group. Beaminster Museum.

Until 13 July: Theme and Variations Hilary Goddard’s work takes as its theme the intimate relationship of land, sea and sky. In her painting she explores the geological structures to be found in both South West England and Italy. Vivienne Light’s work is wholly abstract. Her mixed media and paper works draw on a background based in both music and art. Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis. 01297 443579.

Until 13 July: The Need to Dream Etchings and paintings by David Inshaw of 'Cricket at Little Bredy' with new landscape paintings by Henrietta Hoyer Millar and Marie-Claire Hamon, furniture by Petter Southall and ceramics by Claudia Lis. Sladers Yard. West Bay, Bridport.01308 459511. www.sladersyard.co.uk.

15 - 19 July: Engaging with The Body Sherborne House, Newland, Sherborne. 01935 816734.

15 July - 7 Sept: The Ancient Mariner the Beaminster Connection. Beaminster Museum.

15 - 27 July: Primary Schools Exhibition A selection of work produced by pupils from local Primary Schools, curated by Alison Bowskill. Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis. 01297 443579.

15 July - 18 September: More Than Flowers John Flower’s paintings. The Study Gallery of Art, @ Lighthouse Poole. 01202 205200.

Until 17 July: Inner Light new watercolours by Moish Sokal featuring work from a recnt visit to India. The Malthouse, East Lambrook Manor Gardens.

18 - 19 July: Engaging with The Body. Artwork and discourse. Exhibition and creative dialogue. Kay Lewis Bell, David Cobley and Deanne Tremlett. Images of people as a form of mark making. Sherborne House, Sherborne. www.sherbornehouse.org.uk.

Until 19 July: Near and Far Gary Long paints the familiar Cornish coastline whilst Gerry Dudgeon evokes the essence of places as far as India and Morocco and as near as Dorset. Hybrid, 51 High St, Honiton. 01404 43201.

Until 19 July: The Browning Family Helen and Colin Browning trained at the Slade School of Arts. Here they exhibit with their sons Matthew (carpenter and furniture maker) and Alec (painter and print maker). Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204.

Until 19 July: Peter Snow A Painter in Love with the Theatre. Paintings 1950 - 2000. Large oils, cityscapes of London and Paris, some interiors and garden pictures and smaller watercolours. The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Child Okeford. 01258 863866.

19 July – 14 September: Vanessa Gardiner new paintings with ceramics by Svend Bayer Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL 01308 459511. info@itrefurniture.co.uk. Petter Southall’s furniture and the collectable craft show are constantly being renewed and changed in a permanent display.

Until 20 July: Through the Lens Royal West of England Academy Contemporary Photography Exhibition. Queen’s Rd, Clifton, Bristol. 0117 973 5129.
22 July - 2 August: Bridport Arts Society Annual Exhibition Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204. Open daily from 10am until 4pm (except 27th and 28th July).

Until 24 July: Tod Otgonbayar. Abandoning an established reputation in Mongolia, Tod Otgonbayar sought refuge here in 2003, for political reasons, and settled in Plymouth. His work is bold and brightly coloured, fusing abstract patterns with images, some drawing on Mongolian Folklore, others responding to his new cultural environment. Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, www.exeterphoenix.org.uk, 01392 667 080.

24 July-17 August: Amy Cummings: Subconscious Mind
This exhibition contains paintings of vibrant colour, shape and form which suggest ideas of life, nature, spirituality and the mind. Amy's work allows the viewer to find their own subject within it. The work is very much driven by her subconscious and the desire to paint. Exeter Phoenix Cafe/Bar Gallery www.exeterphoenix.org.uk, 01392 667 080.

Until 26 July: Elisabeth Frink
Works from the Archive sculpture, prints and drawings from her archive to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Honiton's Thelma Hulbert Gallery.
Honiton. 01404 45006. www.thelmahulbert.comExhibition developed by Sherborne House Arts as previously shown in Sherborne House, Sherborne.

Until 26 July: Impressions of Somerset by John Newberry RWA Depicting unique scenes of Somerton and surrounding areas the collection will also include a selection of work from John’s extensive travels. The Courthouse Gallery, Home of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Market Place, West Street, Somerton, 01458 274653. www.somersetguild.co.uk.

26 July - 6 September: Telling Tales Richard Adams' imagination runs riot in his one man exhibition of fanciful stories in pictures. Hybrid, 51 High St, Honiton. 01404 43201.

Until 26 July: Akram Rahmanzadeh: Inside Outside Human condition and social relationships are the basis for Akram Rahmanzadeh's work, which revolves around people, their placement or misplacement. Featuring two major series of paintings entitled Hammam (Persian word for public bath) and War, the exhibition moves from the intimacy of the feminine space in Hammam to the shocking images in War which are inspired by the images of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Exeter Phoenix Gallery. Gandy Street, Exeter, 01392 667 080. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk,

Until 2 August: Farmlife, Life on three Dorset farms photographs by Robin Mills showing the relationship between farmers, their families and farm workers, as well as a love of their way of life. This exhibition conincides with the Bridport Food Festival. Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204.

Until 23 August: Caroline Barnes - Ceramics selling showcase exhibition. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. 01404 45006.

Until 31 August: The Oddest Little Gentleman - Frederick Bligh Bond and Glastonbury Abbey Excavations. Produced by renowned Glastonbury historian, Dr Tim Hopkinson-Ball. At GlastonburyAbbey. Supported by the Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society.
Until 2 September: Summer Exhibition John Leach Gallery, Mulchelney Pottery, Langport. 01458 250324.

Until 27 September: Growing Pains - Childhood through the Ages Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester. What was it like for children who had to work or walk to school without shoes? A nostalgic look at childhood through the ages with toys, books, school uniforms, photographs and lots of fun family activities.. 01305 262735. www.dorsetcountymuseum.org.

Until 31 October: Ceramics to Cherish by the Eeles Family Potters. In the Undercroft, Forde Abbey, nr Chard. Contact Simon Eeles 01308 868257.

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