Wallwork exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre, 13th May to 10th June 2023

Earth|Ground
As today, Saturday 22nd April, is #earthday, we would like to announce our upcoming exhibition Earth|Ground, featuring ceramics from the archive of Alan Wallwork (d.2019) and paintings and other works by Amanda Wallwork.
This exhibition brings together two artists whose work has been deeply influenced by the Dorset landscape, prehistory and deep time. Alan Wallwork (d.2019) made his name in the early 1960s with his distinctive hand built sculptural forms. He was part of an exciting and experimental period that grew up around the Central School and Goldsmiths College in the 1950s, and a new generation of artists who challenged the sculptural possibilities of clay. He spent most of his working life in Dorset, increasingly influenced by shapes, colours and textures to be found in the coast and countryside. His daughter Amanda uses drawing, painting, and mapping to explore our experience of landscape - a quest for a real understanding of what lies beyond the aesthetic. Influenced by childhood experiences of visits to archaeological sites and museums and growing up watching her father manipulate clay. She is fascinated by what you can read in a landscape - interpreting the traces of past human activity and what it reveals about our relationship with the earth. More recently she has been working directly with earth and rock specimens, to further explore concepts of deep time.
13th May to 10th June, Allsop Gallery.
Gallery open 10am - 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
FREE entry.