THE DORSET PAVILION
T H E D O R S E T P A V I L I O N at Bridport Arts Centre -– Bridport – Dorset from 8th Feb- 15th Mar 2025 | 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Saturday
Returning from its triumphant debut in Venice with over 7000 visitors from 41 countries – The Pavilion is a refreshing playful celebration of the bounty of Dorset. With an earthy mix of contemporary artworks, it challenges conventional expectations of regional art with ideas that stretch internationally. Through the materiality of work – or through direct activist commentary on land and sea the exhibition provides a deep understanding of local roots, community and geology which is essential at this time of environmental crisis. It 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 Harvey and Jem Southam alongside a traditional Tolpuddle Union banner of the Martyrs and Bibby Stockholm by Ed Hall; an exquisite fossil design by Will White; sheepskin artwork by Alexa de Ferranti 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 deMajo, painters Grace Crabtree, Jane Fox, Jeremy Gardiner, Henrietta Hoyer Miller, John Hubbard, Veronica Hudson, Alan Rogers, Ella Squirrell and Harland Viney. PhotographersHelen Harris, Theo McInnes and 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
For more information contact; [email protected] or visit https://lostsheep.black/dorset-pavilion