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Creative and Brave are returning for their second exhibition. Local artists with a distinctive colourful contemporary style. Their Exhibition brings together Acrylic Painting, Wood, Fabric and Pattern Design.

Bethan Venn is a painter and surface pattern designer. Her paintings explore mark making, layers of colour and movement,which she incorporates in fabric, wallpaper, stationery and soft furnishings.

The coast provides the inspiration for Jo Pearce’s artwork, her love of finding driftwood and treasures is expressed in her paintings and woodwork.

Sharon Bielby is an abstract painter whose paintings are a bold and colourful response to things as diverse as a phrase, a sound or beauty in creation.

Do you have a talent you’d like to share with the world? Do you love singing, telling jokes, a little bit of magic, playing a musical instrument, dancing, tumbling? The list is endless. If the answer’s yes then ‘Take a Bow’, Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s talent competition is absolutely for you.

All you have to do is to record a video of yourself showcasing your talent and send it to us at takeabow@shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk between Wednesday July 1st and Sunday 26th July. Our judges will then review the entries and shortlist five performers from each category who will appear in the final. The final will be either a ‘live’ Zoom event or an open air, socially distanced gathering (date to be confirmed soon)

So go on! Have a little bit of fun and join in with us for our very own talent competition – ‘Take a Bow’. It will be great to see you there! We are aiming to share all of the entries via our Facebook page and website following the close of the competition.

Competition Details

There are three age categories:

• 7–11 years
• 12–18 years
• 19 years +

Prizes

The prize for the winner of each category will be £50 in Shaftesbury Arts Centre vouchers, which is redeemable at the box office for tickets. There is no cash alternative.

Rules

1. Your talent can be anything and it can be completed as a solo entry, or a group – as long as it is appropriately social distanced.
2. There is no time limit, although we would suggest that your performance is no longer than 3 minutes.
3. No professionals can enter the competition.
4. The judges’ decision is final for shortlisting and deciding the overall winners.
5. You will NOT receive confirmation of your entry and will only be notified if you have been shortlisted once the judges have reviewed all of the entries.

Judges

7–11 years
Sam Skey (Arts Centre 7–11 years Youth Theatre leader) and David Grierson

12–18 years
Zoe Binns (Arts Centre 11–16 years Youth Theatre Leader) and James Thrift.

 19 years+
Hattie Slim (Arts Centre 16–18 years Youth Theatre Leader) and Samantha Singer

Read more about the judges.

Gabrielle is a professionally trained artist, specialising in oil on canvas often at large scale in a traditional way including the figure and botanical images as well as landscape. She loves playing with depth of field, colour and mark making. Using figures hidden in her paintings vibrant with colour is her passion.

This show will also be exhibiting her new abstracted landscapes influenced by her recent travels.  Solo shows include Milan, Brussels, Switzerland, France, Marylebone, and a Dorset ‘Pop up Gallery.’ She has also shown regularly at the Mall Galleries in London and elsewhere in group shows.

London Specialist Auctioneers Dix Noonan and Webb return for their regular Valuation Day at the Arts Centre. Full social distancing measures will be in place.

Please ring 020 7016 1700  for an appointment or email jewellery@dnw.co.uk.
Appointments must be booked in advance – there will be no walk ins on the day.

Jewellery Specialists, Frances Noble and Laura Smith, with Coin and Medal Specialist, Christopher Webb will be available by appointment to offer confidential valuations free of charge and without obligation on the value of your items with a view to possible sale in DNW’s Mayfair auction rooms.