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

2 - 8 June:
Sherborne Cluster Primary Schools Exhibition Oliver Holt Gallery, Sherborne School, Sherborne.

2 June - 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 4 June:
Terra Firma work by Elizabeth Raeburn and Rodney Lawrence and invited guest artists, highly prolific and established ceramicists. The Courthouse Gallery, Home of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Market Place, West Street, Somerton, 01458 274653.

Until 5 June:
Dorset’s Orchard Heritage introducing some of the lost orchards in our area. Beaminster Museum.

Until 7 June:
Greetings from Bridport Bridport Arts Centre. 01308 424204. www.greetingsfromengland.co.uk.

Until 7 June:
Dorset Visual Arts Showcase Exhibition Selected exhibition of art, design and craftwork being made in Dorset. The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole. 01202 205200. www.thestudygallery.org

Until 7 June:
Held to account: power politics in art and fashion Art, photography, fashion and high street retail come together to demonstrate the power of their particular means of communication to spread a political message. All use different means to warn and inform. Artist Judith Gait, Photo journalists Raphael Shultzer-Weissmann and Carlos Guarita, Ralph Steadman cartoons, and legal action charity Reprieve. Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204.

Until 7 June:
Jill Holland - Paper Bowls In these times of questioning our carbon footprints, these paper bowls represent a desire to work with used materials rather than raw materials, and importantly, to do without kiln firing. They are a natural extension to making paper thin porcelain pieces. Old maps, vintage books and mail order catalogues have been used to build the pieces using familiar techniques employed in the construction of pots, walls and tapestries. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. 01404 45006.

Until 7 June:
Place, Paul Newman Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster. 01460 55783. www.dancingledgegallery.co.uk.

7 - 26 June:
Beaminster Singers: from Glee to Oratorio looking back over the last two decades as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. Beaminster Museum.

7 June - 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.com Exhibition developed by Sherborne House Arts as previously shown in Sherborne House, Sherborne.

7 June - 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 8 June:
DAC Open08 Dorchester Arts Centre. 01305 266926.
Part of Dorchester Festival 08. Festival box office 01305 266926.
Until 8 June: Michael Chappell new work and new book launch. Mangerton Mill, nr Bridport. 07833 597083.

Until 8 June:
Seeds, Fruits and Leaves Dorchester Borough Gardens. Part of Dorchester Festival 08. Festival box office 01305 266926.

Until 8 June:
Edward Vine Acrylic and watercolour landscapes. Peter Hedley Gallery, Wareham. 01929 551777.

Until 8 June:
Four Ways of Looking Local Artists for Dorset Art Weeks. Guy Bacon, Joanne Brown, Elizabeth Fortescue and Liz Somerville. Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis. 01297 443579.
Until 8 June: The Land Beneath My Feet new work by Liz Somerville. 763 The Square, Beaminster. 01308 321520.

Until 8 June:
Dorset Arts Weeks Beaminster Museum.

8 June - 20 July:
Through the Lens Royal West of England Academy Contemporary Photography Exhibition. Queen’s Rd, Clifton, Bristol. 0117 973 5129.

Until 9 June:
2nd Sculpture Garden to coincide with Dorset Art Week. Sculptures by Adrian Grey, Lal Hitchcock, Carl Hahn, Frances Keenan, Giles Downes, Greta Berlin and Colin Caffell. Furniture by Barry May's and some carved and coloured reliefs by Michael Grevatte. Paintings by Hugh Dunford Wood. Little Place, Silver Street, Lyme Regis, 2-5pm.

9 - 21 June:
Charles Maher & Avril Larsson Jurrassic Coast - Views, Along the Way. Predominently featuring coastal images from Purbeck to Lyme Regis. Paintings and collagraph prints. Mulberry Gallery, Weymouth Library.

Until 10 June:
Andrea Gregson A World Within series of sculptures, miniature installations and drawings made over recent years. Exeter Phoenix and Bridge. 01392 667080.

10 - 21 June:
Colfox & Beaminster A Level Show annual exhibition of professional artists in the making. Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204.

Until 13 June:
Mixed Exhibition to coicide with Dorset Arts Week The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Childe Okeford. 01258 863866.

Until 13 June:
Another View Recent Work by Fred Eve. White Space Gallery, Milton's Yard, Axminster.

Until 14 June:
Recent small works by Brian Rice and Jacy Wall. Paintings. Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University. Poole. 01202 961428.

Until 14 June:
Gardens of England Louis Turpin's series of studies from famous gardens including Knightshayes Court together with an insight into garden design from Tim Woolgar. Hybrid, 51 High St, Honiton. 01404 43201.

14 June - 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 backround based in both music and art. Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis. 01297 443579.

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

Until 15 June:
Hannah Maybank paintings and ink drawings embodying an ethereal, contemplative beauty inherent in the natural world. ArtSway, Sway Hants. 01590 682260.

20 June - 26 July:
Akram Rahmanzadeh, Inside Outside. His subject matter revolves around people, their placement or misplacement. Exeter Phoenix and Bridge. 01392 667080.

20 - 21 June:
Engagin with Art and Arcaeology Brian Graham and Amanda Wallwork. Paintings inspired by prehistory. Sherborne House, Newland, Sherborne. 01935 816426.

Until 21 June:
Intervention/ Decoration multiple sites, Frome, Somerset. with Eva Berendes, Micael Dean, Ruth Ewan, Jim Isermann, Cornelia Parker, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Woods. Commissioned by Foreground, www.foregroundprojects.org.uk.

21 June - 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.

21 - 26 July:
Impressions of Somerset by John Newberry RWA
Special Guest presented by The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen
the Courthouse Gallery in June. 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.

Until 22 June:
Pots to Use &Enjoy. Ceramics by the Eeles Family Potters Beautiful pottery in stoneware, porcelain and raku from the well known Beaminster family of potters. Somerset Rural Life Museum, Abbey Farm, Glastonbury. www.somerset.gov.uk/museums. 01458 831197.

24 June - 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 Festial. Bridport Arts Centre, 01308 424204.

24 June - 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.

26 June - 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 28 June:
Mixed Exhibition paintings, ceramics. glass and jewellery, including pen and ink drawings and watercolours by Sven Berlin (1911-1999). Acanthus Gallery, Wareham. 01929 555331.

28 June - 11 July:
Michael Morgan RI at 80 Marine House, Beer. 01297 625257.

28 June - 7 Sept:
The Ancient Mariner - Coleridge Exhibition. Beaminster Museum.

Until 29 June:
3rd South West Artwork Exhibition Contemporary art and performance from Weymouth Arts Network; a group of young emerging artists who are keen to display their fresh vision in various mediums including graphic art and design, sound and video installations, textile art work, sculpture as well as site specific performance art. Exhibition Gallery, Brewers Quay, Hope Square, Weymouth. 01305 777622. www.swa-shop.co.uk. www.southwestartwork.co.uk. www.weymouth-arts-network.co.uk.

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

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 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.

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

Until 31 October:
Ceramics to Cherish by the Eeles Family Potters. In the Undercroft, Forde Abbey, nr Chard. Contact Simon Eeles 1308 868257.

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