THE DORSET PAVILION
Returning from its triumphant debut in Venice where it had over 7000 visitors from 41 countries – it presents an earthy mix of contemporary artworks and provides a refreshing local, visceral and playful exhibition which celebrates the bounty of Dorset -and challenges conventional expectations of regional art with an evocative exhibition that speaks to deep time; the land: the political; the literary; and the historical.
Town of Culture and Lost Sheep Productions has partnered with the renowned Common Ground to present established art world figures such as Andy Goldsworthy, P J Harveyand Jem Southam alongside a traditional Tolpuddle Union Banner of the Martyrs and Bibby Stockholm by Ed Hall; an exquisite fossil design by Will White; Sheep skin art work by Alexa de Feranti and Lower Hewood Farm; A Brexit “mourning” Murano glass work by Sophie Molins; Stills (featuring Michael Clark as a dancing sailor) by David Appleby from Bill Douglas classic film Comrades – and a film by recent Glasgow school of Art graduate Robyn Bamford; alongside ceramics by Jacy Wall, Amanda Wallwork, Fiamma Colonna Montagu and Silva De Majo, painters Grace Crabtree, Jane Fox, Jeremy Gardiner, Henrietta Hoyer Miller, John Hubbard, Veronica Hudson, Alan Rogers, Ella Squirrel, and Harland Viney. Photographers Helen Harris, Theo McInnes & Thomas Ralph and Printmakers Flora Wood and Hugh Dunford Wood, and textiles by Nicholas Kalinoski. We are also thrilled to have a large-scale work by Dorset raised New York based artist Ellen Harvey from her extraordinary series The Disappointed tourist.
A beautiful pamphlet produced by Common Ground; Little Toller books and Lower Hewood farm speaks to these themes with essays by Jon Woolcott and Alexandra Blanchard that focuses on how the “The land lies in the stories; the stories lie also in the land.”
The exhibition is the final event of Bridport-24, Town of Culture, a celebration of the people, place and culture. Town of Culture is an Arts Development Company initiative and funded by Dorset Council and Bridport Town Council
The exhibition will be open from 8th February – 16th March 2025 | 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Saturday
For more information contact; [email protected] or visit https://lostsheep.black/dorset-pavilion