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

Until 30 April:
Fra Newbery's Victorian Bridport. Bridport Museum, South Street, Bridport. 01308 422116.
www.bridportmuseum.co.uk.

Until 30 April:
Windows An eclectic mix of 2D and 3D art and crafts by local artists. Galleryeight, 8 Market Place, Glastonbury. www.galleryeight.com. 01458 833574.

3 - 17 May:
Chard Camera Club The 2007-2008 End of Year Winning Prints. Contact Membership Secretary Peter Partridge on 01460 66885.

3 May-14 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.

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

Until 5 May:
Fra H Newbery. A Dorset Trail Director of Glasgow School of Art in the 1880s and an internationally important figure in art education. Teacher of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. As part of the Newberry Trail, two artists have worked with young people aged 5 to 17 on themes drawn from Fra Newbery's work. Bridport Arts Centre. 01308 424204.

6 May - 7 June:
Greetings from Bridport Bridport Arts Centre. 01308 424204. www.greetingsfromengland.co.uk.

10 May - 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.

Until 11 May:
Night, A Time Between painting, drawing, photography, film, and live performance, Internationally renowned contemporary artists whose work explores the human asociation with noctural worlds, including Hughie O'Donoghue, Susan Derges and Ergin Cavusoglu, alongside 17th-19th century artworks from the Royal Scottish Academy, The Holburne Museum and private collections. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 0117 973 5129.

Until 11 May:
Robin Rae: A Retrospective at 80. Also Inspired - an exhibition of top designer makers inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School as part of the Fra Newbery Trail. Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL 01308 459511. info@itrefurniture.co.uk. www.sladersyard.co.uk

Until 15 May:
Mola Textiiles & Inuit Sculpture Beaminster Museum.

Until 15 May:
Waterzones Day Bowman, Ian Knox, Steve Harris. Dramatic non-figurative paintings, gritty film images and improvised sound. From Berwick on weed to Penznace, this series of work stands for all things unordered, jumbled and junked. It is a journey through the urban and post-industrial landscapes of an ageing world. Work and performances will invite debate and dispel the sentimant of postcard images of Britain's shorelines. The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole. 01202 205200. www.thestudygallery.org

Until 17 May:
Of and About the Landscape Robert Jennison explores rockfaces and hedgerows and Robin Wiggins paints descriptive water-colours of the two Devon moors. Hybrid, 51 High St, Honiton. 01404 43201.

Until 17 May:
Spring Exhibition Sue Bates, paintings; Ian Harris, ceramics; Mike Jackson, paintings. Acanthus Gallery, Wareham. 01929 555331.

Until 17 May:
The French connection, work of Jenny Price. Using photographs, computer collages, poetry, loose woven fabrics and oils she tells stories of hidden lives, secrets and the unspoken in everyday life. The Little Gallery, 2 Church Street, Beaminster. 01308 863131.

Until 17 May:
Tobit Roche Landscapes The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Childe Okeford. 01258 863866.

17 May - 5 June:
Dorset's Orchard Heritage introducing some of the lost orchards in our area. Beaminster Museum.

17 - 24 May:
Fusion Arts Institute Bournemouth nine part time BA Fine Arts students present a showcase assessment exhibition of contemporary work. The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole Lighthouse. 0844 406 8666.

Until 18 May:
Sam St. Leger - New Works
Oliver Holt Gallery, Sherborne School, Sherborne. 07790 613 050.

Until 18 May:
In a piece Father and daughter Andrew and Alice Crance, Andrew- new abstract canvasses in oil and mixed media; Alice mixed media and stitch. Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis. 01297 443579.

18-31 May:
Charity Art Exhibition organised by The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum in aid of the Museum Extension Fund. Tulips Gallery, Broad Street, 11am to 5pm daily. All paintings by Royal Academicians or Members of the New English Art Club. Contact Margaret Rose 01297 445503.

18 May - 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. Contemporary British Art, Furniture and Craft, Boatyard and Café. 01308 459511. www.sladersyard.co.uk

Until 20 May:
Westcountry Members of the Society of Graphic Fine Art the only national art society which stipulates the importance of drawing skills as criteria for membership. Octagon Gallery Bar, Octagon Theatre, Henford, Yeovil.

21 May - 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

23 May - 8 June:
DAC Open08 Dorchester Arts Centre. 01305 266926.
Part of Dorchester Festival 08. Festival box office 01305 266926.

23 May - 8 June:
Michael Chappell new work and new book launch. Mangerton Mill, nr Bridport. 07833 597083.

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

Until 24 May:
James Bradley - Artist and Teacher pioneer of the renowned 'basic design' art course he had a big impact on the development of secondary art education across England, particularly in the 1960s. Lighthouse Poole Centre for the Arts. 08700 668701.

24 May - 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.

24 May - 8 June:
The Land Beneath My Feet new work by Liz Somerville. 763 The Square, Beaminster. 01308 321520.

24 May - 8 June:
Dorset Arts Weeks Beaminster Museum.

24 May - 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.

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

26 May - 13 June:
Another View Exhibition of Recent Work by Fred Eve. White Space Gallery, Milton's Yard, Axminster.

Until 28 May:
Face to Face. Photographs by Helen Muspratt She moved to Swanage in the 1920s and met Francis Newbery who encouraged her to follow her dream of becoming a photographer. Dorset County Museum, Dorchester. 01305 262735. www.dorsetcountymuseum.org.

28 May - 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.

Until 29 May:
Henri Matisse, original lithographs some signed by the artist on the plate in 1954, some from earlier limited editions. John Leach Gallery, Muchelney Pottery, Nr Langport. 01458 250324.

30 May - 1 June:
Ken Evans, The Guildhall, Axminster. 01297 631455.

Until 31 May:
Wheel of the Year paper is the most disposable item in the modern world yet its creative applications are still being developed and explored. This exhibition brings together artworks created from paper by South West members of the Paperwieght group of artists. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. 01404 45006.

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

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

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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