A roomful of delights – 2D and 3D artwork and work from local designer-makers specially selected by the curators to inspire your gift-giving this Christmas. Open 10.30-4.30 Thursday – Monday (closed 25 – 27 December and 1st January); plenty of free parking on site. “Unwrapped” is in the right-hand room, and our Open exhibition “Bring […]
Category: Exhibitions
Lyme Light, 17 February-27 March
From 17 February until 27 March—all being well—the Rotunda Gallery in the Lyme Regis Museum will be hosting Lyme Light, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Pauline Sayers, a member of Lyme Bay Arts. Subtitled ‘Where Sea Meets Sky’, this exhibition of paintings represents, in Pauline’s words, “my past year observing the […]
Bring Art To Life, 2nd December 2020 – 19th January 2021
Rescheduled after lockdown – now reopening after lockdown on 2nd December! This open exhibition is about bringing art to life and will focus on a celebration of colour and form. We felt this was an opportune moment, in these uncertain times, to give the opportunity to both the creative practitioner and the viewing public, to […]
Telling Tales! – 4th December 2020-13th February 2021
Now open post-lockdown from 4th December-13th February Come and see ‘About a Bee’, Or fish for Ivor in the sea! Then sing along in seaside rhyme, And learn how seagulls spend their time!. Carolyn King Pictures, words and whimsy created by author and illustrator Carolyn King for About a Bee, Along Came a Seagull and […]
South West Sculptors, 15 October – 2 November 2020
SouSouWest Gallery’s first visiting exhibition is a collection of works made by a group of sculptors living in the South West. Brought together by travel guide writer, publisher and sculptor Hilary Bradt, these artists create sculptures of all types and sizes, especially endearing ones of animals, and thus their showcase is a delight for visitors […]
Chroma, 8 September – 17 October 2020
Vibrant glass abstract panels by Allan Punton. Allan, who’s specialised in hand-cut coloured glass contemporary artwork for 20 years, will be showcasing 12 panels of abstract glass landscapes that celebrate colour and its ability to create in differing combinations different responses from the viewer. The shape and size of the Rotunda will amplify the richness […]
Awakening, 24 September – 12 October 2020
– vibrant works by Zee Jones, Pam Allsop and Lucy de Albuquerque.
Contemporary Crafts show, 3 – 21 September 2020
– beautifully crafted objects from skilled local makers in a wide variety of disciplines.
Natural Forms Exhibition, 13 – 31 August 2020
– an exhibition responding to the natural world in different media. Our first Open exhibition after lockdown attracted over 100 entries from a large number of local artists and craftsmen.
Infourmation, 4 July – 9 August 2020
This showcase of recent work by four very different West Dorset artists — Michael Chappell, Tracy Linwood, Kathy Hallsworth and Charles Hallsworth — provides examples of each artist’s way of seeing and internalising the world around them. A chance to share the struggles, determination and humour required to produce each body of work.