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PAW 2011

Purbeck Art Weeks Festival was officially registered as a Charity on the 10th February 2011.

The Friends of PAW began this year after being launched at a Fund Raising Dinner held at The Priory late last year. The Founder Friends were listed in the brochure.

  • 17 Days: Fri 20 May – Sun 5 June
  • 38 Open Studios
  • 31 Rollington Exhibitors
  • 3 Artist demonstrations at Rollington
  • 1st bianual selected exhibition at Durlston – Beginings
  • 18 Concerts & Other Events
  • Purbeck Fringe at the Square and Compass, Worth
  • PYA in unkown number of schools
  • Purbeck Cafe at Rollington
  • Membership Fee: £5 (introduced when we registered as a company)
  • Exhibition Fees: Unknown
  • Competitons: PYA Competition
  • Chair: Tony Viney
  • Festival President: Sir Anthony Caro
  • Visiting Musical Director: Natalie Clein
  • Visiting Artist 2011: Professor Jim Hunter МА

Mission Statement

The PAW Festival aims to encourage appreciation of the arts across the Purbeck District Council area by staging a wide range of performances and art exhibitions. It encourages and promotes artists who live or work in Purbeck while attracting other artists and the general public from further afield. The Festival embraces a wide spectrum of art including painting, sculpture, music, film, poetry, drama and lectures from performers who are often at the top of their profession, many with international reputations. We want to encourage younger people, be adventurous and stimulate as well as inform as wide an audience as possible. The Festival is a charity run by volunteers and depends on the support and sense of ownership from across the Purbeck community.

2011 PAW Flyer

Concerts & Other Events

Event: Drums, Fanfares & Fire at Corfe
Concert: A Turkish Evening at Smedmore
Poetry: Elvis McGonagall: Poetry Slam
Event: Alastair Sooke interviews Sir Anthony Caro
Talk & Film: Pennie Denton on Mary Spencer-Watson and film Isadora Duncan
Talk & Film: Frederick Forsyth: celebrity lecture and film Day of the Jackal
Event: Jim Hunter: Guest Artist Q & A
Event: Giles Abbott: Family Storytelling
Concert: Trinity Laban: from Bach to Brubeck
Talk: Paul Hyland: Art of the Impossible
Concert: Gabrieli Consort Monteverdi Violins
Film: Aarak & the Ayatollah: in the footsteps of Fedusi
Talk & Film: Augustus John talk and film Orlando
Talk & Film: Romeo & Juliet
Concert: Mozart, Ravel & Messiaen- Natalie Clein & friends
Concert: Brahms & Schumann – Natalie Clein & friends
Concert: Bach Coffee Concert – Natalie Clein & friends
Closing Concert: Tchaikovsky, Tangos and Trios, Natalie Clein & friends with Sam West

Rollington Barn Artist Talks & Demonstrations

Tony Viney talks about stone plates
Kitty Hartnell talks about Metal and Mosaics
Toby Hoad talks about Woodturning

PYA 2011

Every year in the weeks before the Festival starts we have a series of workshops and art competitions which are open to schools and young people throughout Purbeck. This year storyteller Jamie Crawford is holding workshops in schools followed by classes with professional artists. Our art competition, with local artist Brian Graham as senior judge, culminates in a prize giving evening at Swanage Middle School. The winning entries are on show throughout the Festival fortnight on the walls of our main Art Exhibition venue at Rollington Barn and at Wareham.

Exhibiting Visual Artists

Click here to view the Brochure

Open Studio Artists: Rollington Artists:
1. Janine Drayson & Eliza Jayne Ceramics
2. Graham Whitney
3. The Mulberry Tree Gallery
4. Purbeck View School Students
5. Cathy Veale
6. Bonnie Brown & Brian Bishop
7. Georgina Fermer
8. Chrissy Silver and Claire Whitman
9. Tony Kerrins
10. Sue Williams
11. Kitty Wass
12. Margaret Lawton
13. Rowena Faye & Monica Hawley
14. Sarah Wootton
15. Moira Purver & Sue Lansbury
16. Burngate Stone Carving Centre
17. W J Haysom & Son
18. Heather Gibbons & Peter Boyce-Tomkins
19. Do & David Michell
20. Emma Pickering
21. Debbie J R Handy
22. Stephen Bishop
23. Judy & Spud Tate
24. John Owens
25. Ian Harris Ceramics
26. The Boilerhouse Gallery: Jane Colquhoun, Jan Dagley, Nicki Hall, Richard Jeffery, Frances Pollard, Jonathan Sells, Julie Winsor
27. Katy Shepherd & Purbeck’s animators including Lizzie Induni & Sally Maltby, the “Gas light” group.
28. Phil Hill & Andrew Thomas
29. Cameron & Talbot Furniture
30. The Good Companion Collective
31. Purbeck Young Artists
32. Bridget Villiers-Stuart & Sarah Massey
33. David Cole
34. Contemporary, Classical
35. Kitty Hartnell
36. Janet Hall
37. Lulworth Arts
38. Simon Thomas Pirie		 Charlotte Dowling
Tony Adams
Wendy Lalla Wharam
Greenwood Workshop
Diana Quinn
Stephen Bishop
Yasmin Seaman
Carlotta Barrow
Jill Nice
Joy Shepherd
Sue Lansbury
Sally Maltby
Moira Purver
Nikki Harman
Kevin Willamson
Annie Campbell
Robin Claridge
Freya Boyesen
Purbeck Young Artists
Sebastian McEwen
Jen Brasnet
Delia Aitken
Mike Sharpe
Marion Carlé
Lizzie Induni
Karen Delahay
Elsa Heinesen
Roy Aplin
Milly Haines
Tony Viney
Mary Baker

PAW Team Members

Trustees:

Chair: Tony Viney
Treasurer: Lizzie Induni
Secretary: Peter Tate
Trustees: Richard Brown, Dilys Thomas, Richard Jeffrey, Debbie Handy and Robin Claridge (joined Oct 2011)

Admin:

Fundraising Committee: Carlotta Barrow, Lizzie Induni, Richard Jefferies, Debbie Handy, Dilys Thomas, Peter Boyce-Thomkins, Heather Gibbons
Brochure Advertising Coordinator: Debbie Handy

Events: 

Events Committee: Dilys Thomas, Kitty Hartnell, Dilys Thomas, Richard Brown, Mary Hayson, Tony Viney
Friends Coordinator: Richard Brown

Visual Arts:

Membership Secretary: Lizzie Induni
Membership & Exhibition Applications: Sally Maltby
PYA Committee: Alisson Allum, Wendy Wharam, Seb McEwan, Antonia Phillips, Lizzie Induni
Rollington Committee: Robin Claridge (chair) , Kitty Hartnell, Debbie Handy, Tony Viney, Peters Tate and Boyce-Tompkins

Publicity:

Publicity Committee: Carlotta Barrow, Richard Jefferies, Shannon Ribbons, Debbie Handy, Mary Hayson, Bonnie Brown, Brian Bishop
Brochure Design: Shannon Ribbons www.osisdesign.co.uk
Website Design: Richard Jeffery
Social Media (Facebook): Kate McStraw

PAW Members in working groups: Jane Coloqhoun, Peter Cooper, Karen Delahay, Cath Newman, Di Quinn

Founder Friends of Purbeck Art Weeks: BP Wytch Farm Oilfield, Richard & Sandra Brown, Goadsby, Debbie & Peter Handy, Sue & Trev Haysom, Humphries Kirk, Pamela Jolliffe, The Lloyds, Sally Maltby, Doug & Sue Ryder, The Priory Hotel Wareham, Bill & Moira Purver, Jessica & Robin Sutcliffe, Howard & Dilys Thomas, Nick & Lucy Thomlinson, Swanage & Purbeck Hospitality Association and Keith Lawes

If you have anything that you would be able to add to this page, please let us know by emailing info@purbeckartweeks.co.uk, thank you!