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PAW 2018

  • 16 Days: Sat 26 May – Sun 10 Jun
  • 48 Open Studio Artists
  • 48 Rollington Artists
  • 17 Concerts & Other Events
  • PYA in 17 schools
  • Love Cake Cafe at Rollington
  • Membership Fee: £10 per year
  • Exhibition Fees:
    • £75 – Open Studio
    • £100 – Group Exhibition
    • £120 – Gallery/Business Open Studio
    • £15 – Additional Artist (+ £35 for brochure picture)
    • £30 – Guest Artist
    • £60 – Rollington Artist (+20% commission)
    • £5 – Artist page on the website
  • Brochure Cover Image: Jenny Hawke
  • Programme Cover Image: Gill Williams
  • Community Art: Wareham Library Garden Storybook Mural & Swanage Sea Life Stone Bench
  • Competitons: PYA Competition, Postcard Competition, Brochure & Programme Cover Competition & Shop Window Competition
  • Chair: Charlotte Heath
  • Festival President: Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS

Concerts & Other Events

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Concert: Visions and Mystics – Gabrieli Consort
Event: Purbeck Island Discs with Lord (Jim) O’Neill and John Snow
Poetry: Global Wordings: Purbeck Poets Perform
Talk: Visit to a Cart & Waggon Restoration
Talk: Unravelling Brass Mysteries with Tim Arnold
Concert: Echoes of Venice: The Englidh Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Concert: Grace Lovelass Recital
Concert: I Fagiolini: Monteverdi, The Other Vespers
Workshop: The Durufle Trio
Concert: The Durufle Trio: An English Journey
Concert: A Colourful Partnership – celebrating with community groups
Film: Isadora with Vanessa Redgrave
Workshop: Swange Jazz Machine
Concert: Swanage Jazz Machine
Singing Workshop: The Fieri Consort
Concert: The Fieri Consort: The Unknown Traveller
Concert: Natalie Clein at Encombe

PYA 2018

Purbeck Young Artists was very successful in 2018, with seventeen schools involved. The quality of the workshops results were higher than ever and the exhibition was excellent. We were able to offer students workshops that added to their skill set and we offered workshops that had not been offered previously. We had four very experienced artists on the team who ran excellent workshops based around the 2018 theme of Movement.

Click here to find out more . . .

Community Art

Wareham Library Garden

In 2018, under the inspirational guidance of Dawn Newlove, Wareham Primary School and the Purbeck Centre made a ceramic Story Book Mural to adorn an otherwise blank wall in the refurbished garden of Wareham Library. Young people painted tiles with scenes/characters from their favourite childhood stories . . . . such a suitable theme for a library garden! Do go and admire their work and the creativity of everyone involved.

Click here to find out more  . . .

Swanage Sea Life Bench Project

In 2018, Carlotta Barrow continued the Swanage Sea Life Bench project, inspired by the constant movement of the sea and the life beneath the waves. Stone panels were prepared with a crest of a wave carved on the top to evoke the rolling waters, with pupils from The Swanage School, led by art teacher Sarah Mulhern developing their designs and carving the panels at the Burngate Stone Carving Centre. We are grateful to Lovell’s Quarry for providing the pre-cut stone panels, to Scott Taylor for carving the waves, and to the Albion Quarry for providing ‘practice’ stone as well as various sponsors – notably the AONB (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The completed panels have been placed alongside the garden path overlooking Swanage pier.

Click here for more information . . .

Competitions

Purbeck Young Artist Competition: work based on this year’s theme was exhibited at Rollington Barn (primarily in the Cafe) and there was a prize giving on the Thursday evening before the Festival began.

Postcard Competition: collect signatures from five different artists venues and win a £250 voucher for a piece of PAW art of your choice.

Brochure & Programme Cover Competition: Exhibiting artists could submit artwork to be selected for the cover of the Brochure and the Programme.

Shop Window Competition: Local shops decorated their windows and the public voted to choose the best. The winner won free advertising space in the following year’s brochure and programme.

Exhibiting Visual Artists

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Open Studio Artists: Rollington Artists:
1. Kitty Wass
2. Jill Mirza
3. BRICKS – Sharon James, Rob Mills & Gary Spratt
4. Josh Hollingshead Gallery with Azita Heartly
5. Lucy’s Farm
6. Art Workshop Swanage
7. Gina Marshall Gill Williams Nicky Stockley Helene Champrond
8. Vic Smith
9. Ed Marriott
10. Cathy Veale
11. Badger Studio Swanage
12. Gloria Rees
13. Richard Hooke
14. Andy Farrer Landscape Photographer
15. Gallery 5 – Benjamin Williams & Sophie Roche
16. Lar Smits
17. Moira Purver, Sinead O’Neill, Roger Lockey, Marita Morgan
18. Heather Gibbons & Peter Boyce-Tomkins
19. Burngate Stone Carving Centre
20. Purbeck Makers Market at Burngate with Robin Claridge & Brendan Gallagher
21. Worth Matravers Creative Artists
22. Marion Field
23. AndyKnillArt
24. Harmans Cross Art Group
25. Rebby Lemon
26. Ian Harris Ceramics
27. The Gallery at 41
28. Seasons Green — Gift Shop & Gallery
29. Boilerhouse Gallery
30. Helen Biles Studio
31. Sue Lansbury, Dave Lansbury Jay Goulding, Alec Harrison & Joy Blackwood
32. Studio 8, Annie Campbell
33. Debbie J R Handy
34. Janine Drayson and Greenwood Workshop
35. Phil Hill, Sandy Hardwick, Elaine Naptin, Emily Burns
36. Rachel Fooks, Laura Evans & Heather Dring
37. RSPB Arne Nature Reserve
38. Andrew Thomas
39. Claire Cameron (Pawtraits In Clay) & Elaine Jones
40. Phoenix Arts & Crafts with Annie Lovelass, Peter Cherry, Lar Smits, Debbie Pool, Guy Pool, Dan Rushton, Sophie Weld-Davies & Gilly Loveless
41. Lulworth Studio, 6 Main Road, West Lulworth – Tony & Yvonne Adams
42. Kitty Hartnell
43. Creative Gallery with Graham Towler & Cliff Towler
44. Eddie Burrows
45. Purbeck Artisan Yard
46. David Cole
47. The Little Gallery Dorset Feat. Sue & Xav Coussy
48. JAIO		 Roy Aplin
Paul Barron
Helen Biles
Jayne Brettell
Emma Browning
Maria Burns
Eddie Burrows
Jayden Capper
John Challis
Martha de Chazal
David Cole
The Dorset Copperfish
Deb Fullbrook
Brendan Gallagher
Emma-Louise Grinsted
Kitty Hartnell
Jenny Hawke
Jessamy Hawke
Mon Hawley
Beryl Hopkins
David Hopkins
Alice James
Sophie Jenkins
Sheila Jolly
Jessamy Keily
Paul Longland
Charlie Money
Jo Mosen
Mark Page
Guy Pool
Jo Porter
The Purbeck Workshop
Moira Purver
Frances Quinlan
Caroline Rainsford
Jacqueline Redfern
Jacqueline Shamley
Anthony W Smith
Eleanor Spalding
Paul Stafford
Lisa Stockley
Lucy Tidbury
treeoftheweek
Keith Waller
Linda Wallis
Kitty Wass
Wendy Lalla Wharam
Rehan Zia

PAW Team Members

Festival President: Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS

Chair: Charlotte Heath
Treasurer: Joan Ingarfield
Secretary: Emma-Louise Grinsted
Trustees: Richard Brown, Moria Purver (left Jan 2018), Emma Ormond, Sue Lansbury (left Oct 2018)

PYA Coordinator: Helen Biles

Brochure Design: Louise Leffler www.louiseleffler.co.uk
Website Design: Pyewacket Design www.pyewacketdesign.co.uk

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!