A selection of articles from the popular Arts and Entertainment section.
A local arts organisation worth watching is the innovative b-side, based in Portland. Founded in 2008 as part of the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games, b-side runs a bi-annual 10 day arts festival as a celebration of place, Read more »
Cameron Short’s ‘Ode to the Ash’ was inspired by ash dieback. He said he felt compelled to celebrate this tree ‘not just for its graceful lines, but for its usefulness over the ages.’ His beautifully worked wood block print evokes Read more »
David Worthington visits Hauser & Wirth and sees the commercial reality that Government is missing For the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth, one of the most important events of the year is not a glamorous private view in New Read more »
After months of planning and administration The Marshwood Arts Awards exhibition is nearly upon us and as well as a few new initiatives for this year’s exhibition, there have also been a few surprises. The entries are in and the Read more »
David Worthington visits one of the South West’s horticultural triumphs A few miles outside Taunton in Somerset is Hestercombe House, a historic stately home with an internationally important garden. Yet twenty years ago its eighteenth-century landscape had fallen into Read more »
Walking into Lisa Lindqvist’s studio is like peeping back stage of some dreamlike Vaudeville production. Miniature works in progress mingle with near life size figurative sculpture. The room is stuffed with objects, which Lisa collects, magpie like, waiting for their Read more »
With the Marshwood Arts Awards reaching out to an ever broader range of artists, makers, art lovers and buyers throughout the South West, it is good to see such a unique initiative supported by local businesses. Along with the assistance Read more »
Katherine Locke talks to Tom Hammick As a teenager, Tom Hammick was discouraged from becoming an artist. ‘Even though we were surrounded by art at home’, he says. Read more »
Somerset photographer Matilda Temperley has quickly built a reputation for capturing more than the eye can see. Interviewed for a film about the Marshwood Arts Awards she spoke to Victoria Byrne. It’s surprising how often a career path simply appears Read more »
Much as it’s convenient and probably a little too neat to declare that growing up and going to school below one of Dorset’s most famous icons is likely to inspire creativity, it’s hard to escape the trail of talent that Read more »