Purbeck Art Weeks: Portraiture Celebration

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A celebration of Portraiture as part of this year’s PAW Festival in partnership with The Mowlem’s new Visual Arts initiative. There are four events around different aspects of the portraiture theme – two exhibitions, a talk, and painting in action.

Thursday 8th June | 6.30 – 8.00pm
TALK BY PHILIP JACKSON AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Community Room, The Mowlem, Swanage, BH19 1DD
Tickets: £5, students free.
Drinks and nibbles available from 6pm
If you are curious about how portraits are done, come and enjoy a talk and panel discussion entitled What Makes a Good Portrait? This opens with what promises to be a fascinating talk by internationally renowned sculptor, and PAW President, Philip Jackson, on The Trials and Tribulations of doing Portraiture in Public Sculpture, followed by a panel discussion which includes artists Sophie Jenkins, Suzy Wright, and Tim Edgar (Mowlem Visual Arts Coordinator).

Saturday 10th June | 2.00 – 4.00pm
PORTRAIT ARTIST OF PURBECK – LIVE ART EVENT
Community Room, The Mowlem, Swanage, BH19 1DD
Tickets: £5, students free.
Portrait Artist of Purbeck is a compered live event, in which leading Dorset artists Jack Dickson (painter and Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2020), Tony Kerins (artist/illustrator), and Suzy Wright (textile artist) paint a local notable character in front of an audience – do come and see some great artists in action.

Tickets available from: https://purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk/events/event-tickets-info/

EXHIBITIONS DURING THE FESTIVAL
‘Family’, an exhibition by Suzy Wright, takes place in The Mowlem’s visual arts space. Suzy, textile artist and one of the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year finalists, encourages us to look at portraits in a different way! Free.

Shown alongside this is an exhibition of portraits submitted to our Portraiture Competition by young people from schools across Purbeck – of somebody they ‘admire’. There could be some surprises here! The winners and prizes will be announced at 4pm on Sat 10th June in The Mowlem’s Community Room. Free.

Exhibition opening times:
May 27th – 4th July 2023
Daytimes (Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturdays) – 11am – 1.30pm
Evenings (Monday – Saturday) – 6 – 9pm⁠

 

Mowlem Visual Arts is an initiative aimed at showcasing exciting, new visual arts work in our building on Swanage seafront. Exhibited work will complement our programmes of other events, generally cinema and live performance. Applications for exhibition are welcome – please click here for full details.