Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development works with visual artists to develop and support projects and opportunities, and provides project development advice.
Reading Around - Artists' book pages
Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development is participating in the Reading Around project.
Sand Mandala Exhibition
June 9 - 13
Bournemouth Library, The Triangle
A rare opportunity to see eight Tibetan Buddhist Monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery create a sand mandala, one of the most exquisite artistic traditions of Tibet. Over 4 days, millions of grains of coloured marble are placed by hand using hollow pipes called Chak-purs.
Friday June 13, 9.30 - 10.30 am
Bournemouth Library, The Triangle
Attend the destruction ceremony of the sand mandala and join a processon from the library to the Lower Gardens where the mandala will be poured into running water, signifying the impermanence of life.
Wednesday June 11
Tregonwell Hall,BIC
'The Power of Compassion'. A performance of masked dances and sacred music by the Tibetan monks offers insight into the music, chanting and dance of Tibet - an endangered culture.
In association with Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development and Libraries.
DAW: Bournemouth Artists
Bournemouth Library
May 10 - June 5: Opening May 16 5.30pm
An exhibition of paintings, pottery, sculpture and textiles to promote local artists participating in Dorset Arts Week.
Brenda Weeks, Boscombe Spa Arts Trail, Rita Brown, Claire Hincks, Angelika Seik, Peter Symons, Bonnie Brown, Brian Bishop, Diane Roberts, Arnold Cox, Sandi Robertson, Glenda Sprake (Acer Arts), Richard Price, Felicity House, Gill Jelley, Rosemarie James, Alison Legg and Zoe Anderson, Coastal Creatives Boutique Gallery
In association with Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development.
www.dorsetvisualarts.org/
Rich and Strange: Altered Books
Bournemouth Library
June 2 - 30
An exhibition of books which have been reworked, amended, extended, defaced or otherwise altered into something new and extraordinary by artists around the world and the UK.
Bournemouth Library will host the exhibition and catalogue the books for loan by members of the public to take out and enjoy.
www.artschool.newport.ac.uk/richandstrange.html
In association with Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development.
Altered Books for Bournemouth Artists
Bournemouth Library
Monday June 2, 5.30 pm - 7 pm
Talk and workshop by Celia Jackson, curator of 'Rich and Strange', plus information about how local artists can produce their own altered books for an exhibition in Bournemouth Library during the autumn. Withdrawn library books will be available for participating artists.
Part of Bournemouth Borough Council's Arts Development programme.
Pine Walk Art Exhibition
The summer Pine Walk Art Exhibition in Bournemouth's Lower Gardens was established over 50 years ago and is one of the largest and longest running open air art displays in the country.
Boscombe Library Public Art
Hawkwood Road, Boscombe
By day, stunning glass and etched steel panels welcome visitors to Boscombe Library. The panels contain drawings and text made by local people through a community-based public art project led by artist Peter Dunn. At night, backlighting creates a vibrant beacon of colour, welcoming residents of Chapter House and visitors to the new Boscombe Library.
A partnership project between Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development and Libraries working with East Dorset Housing Association.
Boscombe Spa Public Art
A dynamic new sculpture by Simon Hitchins will be installed in the piazza area in front of Boscombe Pier as part of the Boscombe Spa Village project, later in 2008.
Developed by Bournemouth Borough Council Leisure ervices, in association with Arts Development and the Bournemouth Public Art Development Plan.
Uncovered
Uncovered is a pilot two-year programme of visual arts exhibitions and other events, commissioned by Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development in partnership with independent artists.
Cover to Cover (October 26th to December 16th 2006) was the first event within this programme. Four artists with connections to Bournemouth presented work within the context of the library, and relating to the function of the library as a public building and as an architectural space.
Annual Town Centre Gardens Exhibition
Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development, Parks and Countryside have worked in partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth (AIB) since 2002 to develop site-specific annual exhibition of work by Fine Art students within town centre locations – buildings and outdoors.
In May 2008, twenty one artists showed work throughout the Lower Gardens in the exhibition 'seed' in a range of media: photography, installation and sculpture, which aimed to 'give our audiences something to think and talk about...'
One of the council's priorities is to encourage real opportunities for student artists to create innovative work in the town centre, and to bring this high quality work to the attention of the general public.
Townsend Arts Project
Townsend Arts Project was a visual art and music project with children from Townsend School in Bournemouth.
Bookmarks V: Infiltrating: Japan, UK, Poland, USA, Croatia and New Zealand.
September 2007 - February 2008
Bournemouth Library participated in an innovative book mark project. The bookmarks are collated into sets, with one full set sent to each artist, and the rest divided and sent in these boxes to participating galleries, bookstores and libraries for free distribution. All of the bookmarks are archived in the gallery sections of the Bookmarks websites, with contact details of the contributors. The project promoted the artist’s book and associated artworks and encouraged the public to contact the artists via the website http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bkmks5/project.htm
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