Burrow

Last year, local self-taught artist Carmel De’Lisser’s (@my.own.catharsis_) interactive installation, The Wintering, transformed the Main Gallery into an organic woodland over the winter months, creating a space for visitors to “exhale.” You can read more about Carmel’s exhibition in her interview with Lighthouse HERE.

This winter, our creative community has come together to celebrate her legacy, transforming the space once more into a creative sanctuary over the festive season with workshops, events and activities taking place in the burrow.

The exhibition features the artwork of 23 visual artists with a connection to Dorset in response to the theme: Burrow.

Expect to see artwork that demonstrates an awareness of space, experiments with scale, explores seasonal themes, uses creative health and wellbeing to encourage visitors to look inward, and uses sustainable processes and materials to bring the outside world in.

“My work is how we connect to the land, how it holds us, how we feel within in, how we can take a space to pause, to breathe, to relax.” -Carmel De’Lisser talking about The Wintering.

Featured artists: Alba Abenojar Risco, Anaïck Ankers & Shani Galton, Sadie Aston, Kimberly Aurow, Kiki Birtles, Christina Brouwer, Grace Crabtree, Cherry Dodd, Sophia Dunn, Abigail Dwyer, Shayna Fonseka, Charlie Jimenez, Annabelle Keyes, Debbie Lee, Darcy Miller, Mellissa Monsoon, Kevin Moore, Gabrielle Parker, Diane Roberts, Zara Saganic, Ella Shepard, Ella Squirrell, and Jasmine Wheeler.

Artwork featured was selected by a panel of local curators and creatives from across Dorset & BCP: Millie Lake (Curated by Millie), Paul Newman (Dorset Visual Arts), Tom Pouncy (AUGER Collective) and Nyah Boston-Shears (Lighthouse).

Supported by: Dorset Visual Arts, AUGER Collective and Curated by Millie

Photo credit: Jayne Jackson