Upcoming events
Joss Barratt - The Ken Loach Exhibition
Free
This exhibition brings together the photographs Joss Barratt has carefully captured on set whilst working with Ken Loach and the iconic film posters that they inspired.
“ I always try and approach a film set like I would a story, I treat everyone with interest, dignity and respect and hopefully the pictures will follow…”
Exhibition | Menhir by Elizabeth Woodger
Free admission
*Opening times: not open on Sundays, and reduced opening times on 20 July (12 noon - 5pm) and 27 July (11am - 2pm).
We are delighted to exhibit Elizabeth Woodger’s Menhir photographs for our first exhibition in the newly refurbished Studio 1 for 2 weeks. The exhibition will showcase images from the Moments on Mendip project, a contemporary art event that projected photographs onto the natural rock faces in Cheddar Gorge. A visual exploration of the evolving Mendip landscape. A discovery of the special qualities and unique features of one of the UK’s ‘National Landscapes’.
Event | Meet The Curators of The Traveller Exhibition
Free
Join us to meet Yvette Staelens and Avril Silk who put the ‘Born in the Wheel of a Wagon’ traveller exhibition together in 2011. Yvette and Avril will talk about the background to the show and the lives of the Travellers depicted in it. They will discuss why it continues to matter that Travellers’ voices are heard and listened to in 2023. Read more and book your place.
If you can’t join in-person, you can join via the YouTube live stream.
Exhibition| Born in the Wheel of a Wagon
Free
Born in the Wheel of a Wagon… Portraits of Life and Leisure on the Road
This special gallery display reveals the lives of Travellers, as told by older members of the South West Traveller community, to coincide with this year’s famous Bridgwater St Matthew’s Fair.
Exhibition Open Day
Don’t miss this open day which kicks off Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2022, you can view several exhibitions on display. We will have Ann Farley’s new animation about the climate crisis called ‘The Man Who Mends Things’. This digital art project is part of Ann’s Ignite Somerset Artist in Residency.
Also we’re delighted to have on display the artwork from the School Arts & Wellbeing Project. We worked with schools in Sedgemoor to provide schools' arts-based projects to support recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Find out more.
School Arts & Wellbeing Exhibition
FREE
We’re delighted to have on display the artwork from the School Arts & Wellbeing Project. We worked with schools in Sedgemoor to provide schools' arts-based projects to support recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Find out more.