ARTS
ARTS
By Julie Locke
VISUAL ART
Until Wednesday 22 December from 9.30am to 5.00pm at The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne, there will be a show of new work from The Small Paintings Group. This will provide a wonderful variety of choice of subject matter and styles. Open: Tuesday to Saturday. For more information, visit www.jerramgallery.com or call 01935 815261.
Until Thursday 23 December from 9.30am at Ilminster Arts Centre, there is a Christmas Craft Collection. A huge selection of handmade gifts made by crafts people from the West Country – something for everyone! Free entry. All welcome. Open: Tuesday to Friday 9.30am to 4.00pm and Saturday 9.30am to 3.00pm (closes at 1.00pm on the final day of the exhibition).
For more information, call 01460 54973 or visit www. ilminsterartscentre.com.
Until Friday 24 December from 10.00am to 5.00pm at ACEarts, Somerton, there is an exhibition ‘The Celestial Self’ by Lydia Carter. These works have been created using a range of media and working surfaces, and reflect on aspects of gender, intimacy, and the natural sublime. Though these pieces primarily take inspiration from mythology, they offer an insight into human limitation and the value of mortality. Open: Tuesday to Saturday. For further information, call 01458 273008 or visit www. acearts.co.uk. Until Friday 24 December from 10.00am to 5.00pm at ACEarts, Somerton, there is an Artisan Christmas Exhibition. ‘Gifted’
will showcase contemporary craft from the best designermakers based in the South West. Unique, handmade, locally designed and produced gifts for Christmas. Open: Tuesday to Saturday. For further information, call 01458 273008 or visit www. acearts.co.uk. Until Friday 24 December from 10.00am to 5.00pm at Courthouse Gallery, Somerton, there is an exhibition of authenticated lithographs and prints by Henri Matisse. This exhibition of Matisse lithographs comprises work this innovative modern artist completed during his later years as he developed his artwork. Open: Wednesday to Saturday. www. courthousegallery.uk. Until Monday 3 January from 9.00am to 6.00pm at Hauser &
Somerton Music & Arts Festival welcomes back its Art & Photography Exhibition The Somerton Art & Photography exhibition returns to the town next May after an absence of two years. The exhibition, which is part of the annual Somerton Music & Arts Festival, will open in the Parish Rooms on 28 May and runs until 4 June, opening daily from 10am to 4pm except Sunday. Alongside the exhibition, the festival will be hosting talks and interactive workshops for all ages in the Pinney Room within the Parish Rooms throughout the week. The exhibition provides an opportunity for all amateur photographers, artists, Sculptors and needleworkers to display their work, and exhibit entries will be accepted until 13
May. However, space is limited so exhibitors are limited to four pieces in each category and are advised to submit their entries as soon as possible. The exhibition is free to the public and many of the exhibits will be for sale. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite piece in each category and the artist/photographer in each category with the most votes at the end of the exhibition will receive a certificate of merit. With 500 visitors and 100 artists exhibiting, this is a popular event providing opportunity for artists and visitors. Further information and exhibitor application forms can be found at www. somertonartsfestival.co.uk/ exhibit.
Wirth Somerset, Bruton, there is an exhibition ‘Thoughts Unseen’ by Thomas J Price. The artist’s inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Somerset presents two decades of conceptual enquiry spanning film, early sculpture and the artist’s largest figurative bronze to date. His personal approach readdresses historic narratives and inverts a sense of familiarity, distilling signifiers of status to question the mechanisms in place that reinforce cultural values. Until Friday 14 January, registrations are open for Dorset Art Weeks 2022. Dorset Art Weeks will run from Saturday 14 to Saturday 29 May. From individual studios to galleries, workshops to collectives, popups to projects, the event caters for all tastes and interests in the visual arts, covering a wide
Art & Photography Exhibition Categories.. “
EXHIBIT YOUR WORK!
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Sculpture
Amateur photographers, artists, sculptors and needle-workers are invited to display their work at the Parish Rooms, Somerton from 28th May to 4th June.
Up to four piece s of work Entry charge: £2 .00 per item
Needlework
Up to four piece s of work Entry charge: £2 .00 per item
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(exhibition closed Sunday 29th May)
HOW TO ENTER
Up to four fram ed pictures or canvasses Entry charge: £2 .00 per item
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Full terms and conditions of entry on website. Please contact Jackie on 07778 006543 or email art@somertonartsfestival.co.uk if you have any queries.
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