Making Dorset The Sherborne

Making Dorset Exhibition at The Sherborne 26th October 2024 – 12th January 2025

Building on the county’s rich tradition of craft, design, and making, Dorset Visual Arts announces the return of its Making Dorset project group in a major exhibition at The Sherborne. Making Dorset will present the very best ceramic, furniture, silversmithing, print, glass, and textile work produced in the county, providing an important showcase for many skilled practitioners.

Dorset is home to many maker’s studios, often secluded sites of individual enquiry, reflection, and effort, bound by a shared sense of narrative and place, form and function, tradition and experimentation.

Making Dorset explores the intrinsic dialogue between environment, heritage, and creative practice in the county. It establishes Sherborne as a new home for design and making in the region and puts Sherborne on the map as the county’s craft town.

This new exhibition, featuring over 30 makers, forms part of the evolving cultural programme at this emerging destination for the arts in Southwest England.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 26th October and runs until Sunday 12th January 2025.

The Sherborne, Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 3JG