USEFUL LINKS
Including selected:
*** contemporary art galleries & cultural venues in Bournemouth/the surrounding area
** interesting pubs/bars near Bournemouth Lower Gardens, the exhibition venue
* social/networking groups for creative people living in/near Bournemouth
The Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB)
Established in 1885 as a specialist institute, now a leading university sector institution offering high quality specialist education in arts, design and media across the creative industries.
The Arts University College at Bournemouth | BA (Hons) Fine Art | About the course
This course is not about just sculpture or painting – it concerns all ways of creating work, reflecting movements in fine art practice in the real world. Students have the opportunity to combine disciplines and may decide to fuse video, film, painting, installation, object or audience.
Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development
An arts team working throughout Bournemouth to support creativity, learning and enjoyment of the arts.
Facebook group for this exhibition | Bournemouth Lower Gardens
Join to be invited to openings each year.
@ArtBournemouth on Twitter - follow us
*** Art Sway, contemporary visual art gallery in the New Forest
Sign up to Art Sway's email list as they have a fantastic programme. Next to Sway railway station, 20 minutes by train direct from Bournemouth. Free entry.
*** Atrium Gallery | Art gallery within Bournemouth University
Hosts 8 - 10 exhibitions per year. Based opposite Waterstones bookshop within the university. Open to the public, free entry. See www.unilinx.net for buses.
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/facilitiesandresources/arts_music/visual_arts/atrium_gallery.html
*** Ishihara, Bournemouth, art / bands / DJ's / & craft club
Monthly exhibition and live music event exhibiting work by students, recent graduates and established artists, both national and international. Ishihara still has its monthly residency at its birthplace Sixty Million Postcards but is now organising exhibitions and events further afield too.
*** KUBE art gallery, Poole - formerly the Study Gallery
KUBE brings art, artists and audiences together to share, study and respond to many forms of art and design. The gallery houses the mid-20th century collection owned by the Bournemouth and Poole College. Also hosts an art car boot sale, and live music evenings. Open to the public. Free entry.
*** Lighthouse Poole - large art centre near Bournemouth
Largest art centre outside of London. Includes a great art house/world cinema programme, and a monthly *film club.
*** Red House Museum & Gardens, Christchurch (town east of Bournemouth)
A Georgian building, built as a workhouse in 1764, now filled with a rich variety of changing displays and objects. Free entry.
*** Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, East Cliff, Bournemouth
Bournemouth's hidden gem, recently described by Jeremy Paxman as "a feast". Housed in a Victorian villa, it was originally designed and lived in by Sir Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes. Flamboyant and eccentric are words used to describe the villa's architectural and interior design. Situated on a cliff top over-looking the beach. Only 5 minutes walk from this exhibition. Free entry.
*** text+work | Art gallery within The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
text+work is the concept which underpins the exhibition programme at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. text+work promotes and provides a forum for challenging dialogue between innovative contemporary art, design, and media practice, and their theoretical contexts. Open to the public, free entry. See www.unilinx.net for buses.
** Sixty Million Postcards bar, Exeter Road, Bournemouth
Good place to eat when visiting this exhibition, as it's right next to Bournemouth Lower Gardens. Food is served 'til late, check the website for times. Great programme of events, also see the Facebook group.
** The Winchester pub, Poole Hill, Bournemouth Triangle
A comfy pub with an eclectic programme of live music, performance and poetry. 5 minutes walk from Bournemouth Lower Gardens.
* Bournemouth Creatives (formerly BomoCreatives)
Monthly networking / socialising for creative people.
* The Arts Poole (TAP)
Monthly networking / socialising for creative people. Find them on Facebook too.
Evolver magazine - free Wessex region art/culture guide
Listed Magazine - What's on and events listings in Bournemouth & Poole
Wessex Muse Magazine - Art in the Wessex region
Banyards Tree Surgeons - Exhibition Sponsor
In association with Bournemouth Borough Council & the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Bournemouth Tourism
Buses to the Arts Institute/Bournemouth University campus at Wallisdown
Bus services are available both to students and the general public.
E M Maps & Graphics - Cartography
Enterprise Pavilion & exhibition space
A unique, independent initiative to develop, attract and retain new creative businesses in the South West. Based on the campus of The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Goldust Design - typography, graphic design, brochure design, book design
issTV - South East Dorset's online TV station
Portable Radio - an online audio map of the UK visual arts
A touring, local podcasting project, Portable Radio will visit ten UK locations (including Bournemouth) until May 2009 asking artists, writers, members of the public and curators what their local art scene is like. In doing this, Portable Radio will create an online audio map of the UK visual arts.
PrintedEasy.com
RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy in Arts and Youth Sport)
Cultural Olympiad programme 2008-2012 and beyond. RELAYS is an ambitious, innovative and flexible programme of linked cultural and sporting opportunities across South West England. Grounded in learning, it will engage the regions communities and Higher Education (HE) institutions and generate a positive legacy beyond 2012. Delivery will be through the establishment of new sustainable festivals and events, an enhanced distinctive regional cultural tourism offer and the development of knowledge and skills. The project provides an unprecedented opportunity to integrate HE's widening particpation, teaching, research and outreach remits; open up its resources and expertise; and work in collaboration with cultural, sporting, environmental and other educational organisations to build individual and community capacity, for regional benefit.
www.herda-sw.ac.uk/currentprojects/RELAYS/tabid/185/Default.aspx
SCAN
SCAN is an agency developing media arts in the South of England. It works in partnership with a broad range of individuals, groups and institutions nationally and internationally to commission innovative projects that cross and merge disciplines drawn from arts, media, humanities, science and technology. SCAN explores ideas, sites and tools showing the creative potential that media arts offer in our changing society.
The Girls | Fine artists Zoe Sinclair & Andrea Blood
CRADLE 2009 lead artists Blood and Sinclair grew up in Dorset and did a foundation course at the Arts Institute. They first collaborated in 1996 while at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London. Their practice focuses on staged photographic self-portraiture.