Defenders
Stories from a nation under fire. Stories from a nation made of hope, pride, and resilience captured using an old Russian prism lense by artist Julia Kochetova.
Stories from a nation under fire. Stories from a nation made of hope, pride, and resilience captured using an old Russian prism lense by artist Julia Kochetova.
Group exhibition presenting intertwining narratives and portraits from the past and present selected from a BEAF call out for commissions within our festival.
Access BEAF is a group of emerging artists from across Bournemouth and Dorset using the Royal Arcade as a test space to experiment, acting as a platform to share their work with a wider audience.
Corrianna Clarke, Boscombe Bound Created within and inspired by lockdown in Boscombe, the animated short 'Boscombe Bound' shares voices of the community, evoking the unique sense of this location and time. Come and experience the animation, view the sketchbooks and a selection of the 700 original paintings that formed the piece, and bring your own Boscombe story! […]
SOVEREIGN CENTRE CONNECTED EXHIBITION : IT'S ALL ABOUT CULTURE TANJE ZIMBA - BLACK ESSENCE A series of three digital paintings and interconnected video, Me, Myself and My Hair - A journey of Acceptance. The three paintings focus on Tanje’s commentary on some of the key fashion/aesthetic aspects of Black Culture such as hair, nails and […]
Sovereign Centre : Concourse LEIGH WILLIAMS : GLORY II In Glory II, Williams explores the presentation of the fat body, and how we react to the sight of unashamed fatness. She does so with a large-scale sculpture of a belly, inspired by confident fat women and by her own journey of self-acceptance. The piece invites […]
SOVEREIGN CENTRE IT'S ALL ABOUT CULTURE, CONNECTED EXHIBITION Saulė Dominaitė: 'Liberty – the freedom to live as you wish or go where you want.' Liberty is a word whose meaning can hold entire countries at hostage; one word whose heaviness provoked half a dozen generations to leave. Starting my 20s in a pandemic, my generation […]