VENUE MATCHING
Can You Help Dorset Artists?
Call for Venues: Dorset Art Weeks 2026!
Do you have a venue that could host artists and/or makers for Dorset Art Weeks 2026?
We're looking for diverse spaces, including galleries, framers, cafes, or even open gardens perfect for sculpture. Artists willing to share their studios for a group show are also welcome!
The possibilities are truly endless. This is a fantastic chance to promote your venue or business, all while championing the arts in Dorset.
Are you an artist seeking a venue for DAW26, or do you have a venue that could host artists or makers?
If so, please get in touch! We'll post your details on this page.
ARTISTS SEEKING A VENUE
To be listed, please email producer@dorsetartweeks.co.uk with the following information:
Name:
Contact: (email and/or telephone)
Location: Where are you based? Are you happy to travel to another area?
Discipline: A description of what you make/create. Website or Instagram link.
Requirements: Any other information you'd like to share about your needs.
Image: An image of your work.
VENUES SEEKING ARTISTS
To be listed, please email producer@dorsetartweeks.co.uk with the following information:
Contact Name:
Contact: (email and/or telephone)
Venue Details: Where/what is the venue?
Artist Type: What type of artist/maker(s) are you looking for?
Requirements: Any other information you'd like to share.
Image: An image of your venue/space (if possible).
Please note - Dorset Art Weeks takes no responsibility for venues or artists arrangements. This page is purely for venues and artists to get in touch with each other for possible participation in the event.
SEE BELOW FOR LISTED VENUES AND ARTISTS.
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST(S)
POSTED - 30/9/25
Contact Name: Sacha Pratten
Contact: contact@vivreretreats.co.uk / 07971916957
Venue Details: Private house in Wimborne
Artist Type: Happy to host 2/3 artists. A sculptor for the garden.
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST(S)
POSTED - 1/10/25
Contact Name: Jayme Reaves / Modern Folk Studio
Contact: contact@modernfolk.studio or 07958134274
Venue Details: 1A Guernsey Street, Fortuneswell, Portland DT5 1JR
Artist Type: Most likely visual arts in the form of paintings, printmaking, etc that can be hung on the wall. There may be some limited display space for sculpture or ceramics.
Requirements: I am happy to arrange keys with the artist(s) to divvy up open studio times to make it viable. My studio also has my antiques and upcycled items, which can be used for display. We can also host a bakery on the Saturday morning of the art week to drive additional traffic to the site.
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 2/10/25
Contact Name: Rosemary Jacks
Contact: rosemaryjackspottery@gmail.com
Location: I am a based in Musbury on the Devon/Dorset border. I would love to join up with another artist(s) with a venue in the Lyme Regis / Bridport area.
Discipline: Wheel thrown functional earthenware pottery influenced by English Delftware and early pottery.
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST
NOW FILLED
Contact Name: Fen D'Lucie
Contact:
Venue Details: Langham Wine Estate. Building usually used for events by estate. Electric. Large single storey. Two walls are windows the other two have the ability to hang on. Floor is loose woodchip but very fitting for location. Parking directly outside building. Venue easy for visitors; a short distance off A354 between Puddletown and Milborne St Andrew.
Artist Type: Artist can be 2D, 3D or ceramics etc. Will be joining a Botanical artist, sculptor (bronze) and contemporary artist (possibly also a willow worker) who currently complement each other well.
Requirements: Would be expected to take their share of stewarding through the 16 day period. If 2D you may wish (and would be useful) to have your own free standing screens. Likewise 3D artist would benefit from their own tables/plinths etc.
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST(S)
POSTED - 6/10/25
Contact Name: Simon Raynes
Contact: 07887 752853 WDCChair1@gmail.com
Venue Details: The Harbour Theatre, 7 Hope Street, Weymouth DT3 8TU
You can find us just off Hope Square, Blue doors!
Artist Type: Any, we have hosted Painting, sculptures, ceramics, and all sorts besides. We have an extensive set of lighting available.
Requirements: There is a fee of £40 per day or £10 per hour
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 6/10/25
Contact Name: Richard Gregory
Contact: rg@richardgregoryart.com 07956 507802
Location: Blandford Forum. I am happy to travel to another area.
Discipline: Contemporary visual artist, making drawings, object installations and digital works. Themes include: the landscape as a mirror; surveillance-paranoia; object, identity and material.
Website: https://richardgregory.art Instagram: https://instagram.com/richardgregory
Requirements: I am considering two options:
1. Situation with a group where there is common ground, either materially or conceptually eg, it could be about drawing, or it could be about responding to a place.
2. Bringing an existing group (twenty3 art collective https://www.instagram.com/twenty3.artcollective/) together in an available, as yet unidentified, space.
Image: After Tonga-Mallard 2025, Still Watching 2025 - Drawing, graphite and pastel on paper, held with found flints from Tarrant Rushton.
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 6/10/25
Contact Name: Lucy Fennell
Contact: fennelllucy8@gmail.com / 07538 130610
Location: Gillingham, but am happy to travel to surrounding areas.
Discipline: My work is best described as a mixed bag - painting, photography, writing/poetry, textiles - I work in a lot of mediums and work with various themes such as gender, performativity, the body and more.
Website: https://lucymargaretjoyce.wordpress.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lmjart__/
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 6/10/25
Contact Name: Elly Harvey
Contact: ellyharveysilver@gmail.com
Location: Im based in BH14 but am happy to travel around 45 minutes to the right venue.
Discipline: Designer and maker of solid gold and sterling silver jewellery.
I am a known maker in the Poole Lilliput Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks areas as well as Sherborne/Dorchester/Poundbury. I'm looking for a venue with established other makers and disciplines who would like a jeweller in the offerings for 2026.
My website is www.ellyharveysilver.com and my socials @ellyharveysilver.
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 6/10/25
Contact Name: Jenny Mellings
Contact: jenny.mellings@gmail.com
Location: I live between the South Somerset border (Crewkerne), Bridport (partner) and Poole (parents) and currently some of my work is about Arne and related sites.
I would be interested in a shared studio space or other type of venue during the event, preferably in South Dorset somewhere between Lyme and Wareham.
Discipline: Current work mainly involves painting using earth colours and photography but could involve some archaeological finds and small objects. Themes include desert-like spaces, other planets, archaeology, architecture, history, wildlife and mythology. Preferred space would be alongside artists whose work relates in some way. Work can be seen online here:
https://www.instagram.com/transtemporal_spaces/
https://jennymellings.com
https://axisweb.org/artist/jennymellings
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST(S)
POSTED - 7/10/25
Contact Name: Victoria
Contact: info@victoriayj.com or studiosherborne@gmail.com
Location: Art studio / venue hire in Sherborne (studiosherborne.uk)
Artist type: Can be 3D, photography, painting
Requirements: everything can be viewed here: studiosherborne.uk/hire I am happy to do a discount for the whole of the DAW event and happy to also discuss running workshops alongside this.
VENUE SEEKING ARTIST
POSTED - 11/10/25
Contact Name: Anne Quinney
Contact: gonesnorkelling@yahoo.com
Location: Blandford Town Museum
Artist type: 2D / 3D. Wall space and cabinets. Space for browsers and cards.
VENUE SEEKING ARTISTS
POSTED - 11/10/25
Contact Name: Tom Pouncy trpouncy@gmail.com
Contact: collective@auger.gallery / 07391643592
Venue Details: Auger Collective, Unit 7, 600 Christchurch Road, Sovereign Centre, BH1 4SX
We are a community interest company and provide exhibition and event space for the community, collectives and artists on the South Coast.
Artist Type: Paintings, mixed media, digital art and/or sculptural.
Requirements: www.auger.gallery
Looking for a group of artists to exhibit in our large space for Dorset Art Weeks.
SCULPTOR SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 11/10/25
Name: Lucy McEachern
Contact: lucy@lucymceachern.com 07379125909
Location: Maiden Newton, yes I am happy to travel half a hour away.
Discipline: Limited edition Bronze sculpture, www.lucymceachern.com
@lucymceachernsculpture
Requirements: Inside, outside, preferable to be located in an high foot
fall venue, winery/ historic garden etc
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 13/10/25
Name: Jo Saker
Contact: Jo.saker@icloud.com 07771921620
Location: Loders, near Bridport. Yes I'm happy to travel but Bridport would be amazing.
Discipline: Ceramic Artist. Plant Theatres. Ceramics made for Nature.
Instagram @josakerceramics
Requirements: It would be great to be with another ceramists or with a compatible creative please. My pieces are contemporary, graphic and minimal so a visually quiet (white) space would be ideal.
ARTIST SEEKING VENUE
POSTED - 13/10/25
Name: Jane Norman
Contact: hello@cyanobluedesigns.co.uk
Location: I'm in Poundbury, but very happy to travel.
Discipline: hybrid cyanotypes / drawing
https://www.instagram.com/cyanobluedesigns/