Main Gallery
Spring Open
Saturday 20th April - Sunday 12th May
The annual Spring Open is brimming with artwork celebrating this season of hope and colour as we look forward to longer days and warmer nights.
Image: Linda Bristow
Little Gallery
Threads of Tradition (Japan)
Wednesday 1st - 12th May
A welcome return to our textile friends in Japan who incorporate traditional techniques with old and new fabrics to create exquisite artworks and useful items.
Open Call
Creatives
29th May - 16th June in the Little Gallery
We welcome all forms of art from any media, 2D or 3D, wall hung work or sculpture using paint, mixed media, wood, ceramics, metal, textiles or any other media you are working with. Size limit for each piece is 60cm in any direction. You can enter up to three wall hung or four 3D pieces. There is no specific theme but an opportunity to be creative and showcase the making of a diverse range of work within a size restriction.This exhibition coincides with Dorset Art Weeks; whilst we are not part of Dorset Art Weeks itself, the Gallery does have an advert in the guide book.There is no selection process, just fill in the form and hand in on Tuesday 28th May.
Deadline: Sunday 26th May
Image: Alison Shelton Brown
Upcoming in the Little Gallery
Elizabeth Richie
Tuesday 14th - Monday 27th May
Retrospective
Initially a ballet dancer in Canada and the US, she later moved to the UK, where she worked at the Royal Court Theatre in London, promoted authors at the Canadian embassy and founded two complementary health centres. Elizabeth was co-founder of Lyme Bay Arts and director of Lyme Bay Arts CIC when Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery was set up.
Upcoming in the Main Gallery
Artwey
New Directions
Saturday 18th May - Sunday 9th June
Artwey CIC is a not-for-profit group with a mission to promote art and artists in our community. We are currently celebrating our 15th anniversary, so to celebrate members were asked to make art relating to the theme of 'New Directions'.
Those taking part have embarked on a journey of exploration, embraced new perspectives and forged bold pathways forward. Art has been created which reflects a collective and personal commitment to growth and evolution. This exhibition and sale brings together a collection of the resulting artworks.
Upcoming in the Main Gallery
Nigel Moores & Gordon Ellis
Emergence
Saturday 15th June - Sunday 7th July
This exhibition aims to encourage the active involvement of the observer in the continuous process of creativity; opening the way to a change of sensibility, so that our approach to life is no longer based on subject/object duality but is a collaborative venture in a field of open possibilities. We are thus a part of rather than apart from.
Here, painter and poet interact creatively to give rise to such a field that all are invited to participate in, giving rise to their own creative activity, actual or imagined. In doing so we can take part in the fundamental processes of creation out of which the world and its manifestations arise. As Goethe said:
…through the contemplation of an ever creating nature, we should make ourselves worthy of spiritual participation in her production.
Such an orientation with respect to artistic creation can help us to change our sensibility and relationship to the natural world and contribute towards the renewal we need for humanity and the planet to survive.
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