Galleries
ArtSway
ArtSway is the contemporary visual arts venue in the New Forest delivering a programme of high quality contemporary visual arts with professional development opportunities for artists and creative participation opportunities for audience. ArtSway is in a unique position as a contemporary visual arts venue in a rural environment which offers particular opportunities and challenges. ArtSway recognises that in order to continue the development of the organisation and encourage new audience participation it must increase awareness of the organisation through marketing and press activities.
Atrium Gallery
Bournemouth University hosts it own Atrium Gallery which is open to the public and displays exhibitions throughout the year. The Gallery is located in Poole House at our Talbot Campus.
Design Collection Museum
The Design Museum is located in the library. Its purpose is to provide a dynamic study and research resource to facilitate an understanding and appreciation of popular design and culture. It was created to enhance research and student learning and holds more than 8,000 (predominantly 20th Century) international, historical and contemporary design examples relating directly to the Institute’s specialist areas of study.
Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
Built between 1897-1907 as a house/museum by John Frederick Fogerty, it embraces a number of styles reflecting the tastes of the clients, Annie and Merton Russell-Cotes. It is a combination of Italianate villa and Scottish Baronial set in grounds incorporating a Japanese garden situated on the Cliff top overlooking Poole Bay, the Isle of Wight and the Purbecks.
The Study Gallery
The gallery fulfils many functions, all connected with education in one way or another. The exhibition programme is used as stimulus to work for students in The College, and in schools across the South West region. We also work in collaboration with other colleges and universities.
Trace
TRACE is an artist led not for profit initiative based in Weymouth. Begun in 1999 it was set up to promote projects and events that combine new visual work, writing and sound. Since 2002 talks and seminars have been held for each TRACE exhibition given by invited curators and writers from national galleries and museums including the V&A, the Photographers’ Gallery in London and Ffotogallery in Cardiff.
La Biennale di Venezia
The Venice Biennale has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international events in the contemporary arts in accordance with a multi-disciplinary model which characterises its unique nature.
Art Magazines and Publications
Art Monthly
Art Monthly is the UK's leading magazine of contemporary visual art. Published 10 times a year, it keeps you in touch with today's fast-moving artworld through in-depth features, interviews with leading lights, profiles on rising stars and up-to-the-minute coverage of trends from independent critics.
Art Review
Published monthly, ArtReview magazine is the leading guide to the latest trends, movements and personalities in contemporary art.
Frieze
Frieze magazine is Europe's leading magazine of contemporary art and culture. Frieze is published eight times a year and includes essays, reviews, columns and listings by the most forward thinking writers.
Art Bodies and Councils
Arts Council England
Arts Council England works to get more art to more people in more places. We develop and promote the arts across England, acting as an independent body at arm’s length from government.
British Council Arts
British Council Arts group brings the best of UK arts to the rest of the world, helping over 1,500 events to happen each year in 109 countries.
Art Research
Artcyclopedia
Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.
The Artists Information Company
Exposing the diversity and complexity of artists' practice, we're providing an inspiring critical space to research, analyse and debate contexts for practice now and in the future.
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth Research and Scholarship
The establishment, maintenance and development of a flourishing research and scholarship culture are a priority for the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. This culture celebrates and enables original investigation undertaken in order to extend existing knowledge fields and gain new knowledge and/or new understanding both within and across the range of arts, design and media disciplines at the Institute. We promote the pursuit of innovation and creativity, encourage opportunities for establishing and sharing best practice in research and foster the development of critical perspectives that have traditionally lain outside discrete disciplines, and provide possibilities for self-reflective practices in teaching and learning in an interactive relationship with research.
Education
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
The Institute is a creative community where staff and students share a passion for and a commitment to the disciplines of arts, design and media. Course leaders, lecturers and technicians all enjoy a wealth of practical experience in their subject area and the majority remain actively engaged in their own work through research, practice or both activities.
engage
engage is a leading international association for gallery educators, artist educators and other arts and education professionals, with a growing membership around the world: a powerful network working face-to-face with many millions of gallery visitors.
Artists
Sian Bonnell
Sian Bonnell studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art and received an MA in Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1985. She lives in Dorset having moved there from London in 1991.
Frank Bowling
FRANK BOWLING, RA, the Guyana born British trained artist, was on May 26, 2005 elected a member of England's Royal Academy of Art, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. Mr. Bowling was among about a dozen artists proposed to fill one of two vacancies in the eighty-member academy, and is the first Black British artist elected a Royal Academician in the over two hundred year existence of that institution.
Squidsoup
Art, research and play in creative interaction design using sound, physical and virtual space.
Henry Taunt
Henry Taunt was one of England’s most prolific Victorian photographers. Working mainly in Oxford and the surrounding area his pictures are a fantastic documentary record of the life and times of a bygone era.