A selection of articles from the popular Arts and Entertainment section.
Every so often, if you are lucky, you can meet some exceptional artists and crafts people in Dorset. They are often hidden away in villages or remote rural locations and stumbling across them is an unexpected joy. Cameron Short is, Read more »
Nikki Northover’s adolescent dream became a reality and her annual dance shows have inspired many of her students to reach for the stars. Katherine Locke talks to her as she prepares her next show. Nikki Northover is proudly sitting in Read more »
After twenty-two years as an arts professional in national and regional organisations Caroline Corfe talks to Fanny Charles about her new job as Director of Artsreach The new director of Artsreach, Dorset’s rural touring organisation, will be Caroline Corfe, who Read more »
Expedition 360 gave Jason Lewis an appreciation of living within finite means and limits. He talked to Katherine Locke about some of the things he hopes people can learn from his experience, and his talk at the Purbeck Literary Festival. Read more »
Dr Who, Life on Mars, Torchwood: Bridport writer Chris Chibnall may have started his career as a football archivist for Sky Sports, but between that and Broadchurch there has been a lot of work. Katherine Locke talks to him about Read more »
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 »