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SUMMARY:Permanent Exhibition: Isle of Wight Festival
DESCRIPTION:Solo Isle of Wight Festival Gallery \nAn exhibition focusing on the third and final of the original Isle of Wight Festivals held at Afton in 1970 within sight and sound of Dimbola and which saw Jimi Hendrix’s last major performance and his last in the UK. \nThe display includes rare posters and photographs of these legendary festivals. One photograph in particular is a panorama from Afton Down which gives an idea of the audience of 600\,000 who gathered to watch Jimi Hendrix\, The Doors\, Taste\, Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell to name a few. \nTo compliment this there is a display of posters and images of the new IOW Festivals\, revived by the leading music agency Solo in 2002\, which have featured such artists as The Rolling Stones\, David Bowie\, REM and Paul McCartney. \nAlso showing: Chris Cudlip bronze head of Hendrix. Chris has a background in special effects working as a freelance figurative sculptor and prop maker in London working for companies as varied as English national Opera\, Madame Tussauds and Pinewood Studios He is now pursuing a solo career from the Arches Studios complex based in Southampton where he available for public or private commissions of any size. \nOutside Dimbola there is a small memorial garden with a statue of Jimi Hendrix designed by sculptor John Swindells. Have your picture taken next to Jimi and his guitar or breathe in the wonderful lavender ‘Purple Haze’ that grows in his garden (spring/summer) and enjoy the views down to Freshwater Bay.
URL:https://dimbola.co.uk/event/permanent-exhibition-isle-of-wight-festival/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Permanent Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Permanent Exhibition: Julia Margaret Cameron
DESCRIPTION:Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) was one of the most important early photographers and is now recognised the world over as a pioneer of photography as art. \nA woman ahead of her time\, she was ambitious and freethinking when most Victorian women were passive and demure. She took on the challenges of handling large cameras and dangerous chemicals at a time when photography was known as ‘The Black Art’. \nIgnoring conventions\, she experimented with composition and focus. Today she is credited with creating the first photographic close-up portraits and influencing the subsequent Pictorialism movement with her use of diffused focus. \nHer portraits of ‘famous men and fair women’\, reflect her time within the Freshwater Circle\, the birth of celebrity and her ambitions to be recognised as significant artist of her time. \nThe majority of her photographic work was created here at Dimbola. Her work is found in major archives the world over including our own growing Permanent Collection.
URL:https://dimbola.co.uk/event/permanent-exhibition-julia-margaret-cameron/
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SUMMARY:Mini Iconic Bowie – Terry O’Neill
DESCRIPTION:Dimbola Museum & Galleries are honoured that Iconic Images have kindly agreed to loan us photographs of David Bowie taken by the late Terry O’Neil left over from our Iconic Bowie exhibition is 2019. \nOver a 20-year period\, O’Neill captured Bowie’s shapeshifting artistry better than just about anybody else. \nO’Neill’s photographs have left such a lasting impression because he was able to demystify some of the 20th century’s biggest icons. \nBy the time O’Neill started shooting Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973\, he was much a respected name in photography. \nCurrently exclusive to Dimbola in the UK\, the limited editions images are available to purchase. For more information please email admin@dimbola.co.uk
URL:https://dimbola.co.uk/event/mini-iconic-bowie-terry-oneill/
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibitions,Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240520
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SUMMARY:Past Exhibition:Light Bends in Imaginary Gardens by Syd Buron
DESCRIPTION:23rd September 2023 – 19th May 2024 \nSyd Buron (born in Birmingham\, 1977) has followed a meandering path in the arts\, with a consistent desire to fan the faint embers of magic that still smoulder in small patches of woodland trapped between farmers fields\, hedgerows\, misty coast lines\, ancient trees and hollow ways (as well as junk shops\, auction houses and art galleries).  \nEver since moving to the Isle of Wight twenty years ago\, Syd has sought out these magical embers. Exploring the island’s liminal spaces\, where at certain times of the season and day\, the veil seems thin and embers glow. Capturing nature at its most ethereal with his camera; and in the past year\, taking his negatives into the darkroom\, and creating pieces for this show – ‘Light Bends in Imaginary Gardens’. The first darkroom was achieved by blacking out and converting the caravan where he lives with his partner Molly in Atherfield (the island’s wild south west). Since last Spring\, Syd was able to work with larger pieces using the fabulous darkroom in the basement here at Dimbola. The darkroom process he uses shares much in common with the process Julia Margaret Cameron would have used. \n \nThe pieces are made up of Syd’s collection of antique frames and mirrors. On which he paints a photo sensitive liquid emulsion and exposes negatives his photographs (some manipulated\, as well as some found\, vintage negatives) onto the coated surface. The mirrors are then developed and fixed in the darkroom\, as you would a print. The resulting images have the quality of reflections on water – imaginary gardens existing behind the veil. Transient images\, changing as the reflection changes when viewed from different angles\, and changing as the ambient light changes at different times of season and day. \nSome of the frames have been manipulated by Syd – fused with branches and root systems found on the island’s beaches and woodlands. Working in a converted old greenhouse on the farm where he lives\, his audio companion in the workshop has often being Daisy Rickman’s incredible album ‘Donsya A’n Loryow’. As it was the soundtrack to the creation of many of the pieces\, he reached out to Daisy who agreed to let it be the soundtrack to the exhibition. Unbeknownst to Syd\, Daisy is also an artist and filmmaker and her film “Belisama” serendipitously felt like the missing piece in the show. Shot on location during Daisy’s travels through Cuba\, Iceland\, Venice and Cornwall in 2016\, “the footage has been kept at it’s most natural state and no ‘special effects’ were applied during post production. All of what you see here is what was captured within the visual trinity of light\, water\, and in the camera’s eye”.  \nSyd would like to thank Molly for her support and patience\, especially whilst living in a darkroom-caravan last Winter.  \nA price list of the pieces in the exhibition can be obtained from the front desk
URL:https://dimbola.co.uk/event/past-exhibitionlight-bends-in-imaginary-gardens-by-syd-buron/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Past Exhibition: Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens
DESCRIPTION:Our first new exhibition of 2024 begins with “Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens”\, presenting Dickens’ story through the medium of Victorian photography\, with each image brought to life in full technicolour – giving the exhibition its name! \nThe exhibition was originally commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of his death in 2020 and was co-curated by The Charles Dickens Museum.\nWe are delighted to bring it to the Isle of Wight to coincide with it being 175 years since the publication of David Copperfield\, partly written whilst the author was staying at Ventnor. \nUsing the pioneering world of this early artistry\, Dickens was able to enhance his fame and reputation. In showcasing these works this collection will sit alongside the work of Julia Margaret Cameron\, who although was not known to have met Dickens\, there is a slight possibility that they met at Little Holland House soirées. However Julia did photograph many of his acquaintances such as Thomas Carlyle\, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and William Holman Hunt\, to name a few. \nA film by Jamie Langton will form part of the Dimbola exhibition entitled ‘Dickens Island’. During his time on the Isle of Wight\, Dickens befriended Tennyson who became God father to Alfred Dickens\, Charles and Catherine’s sixth child and was named after him. \nDr Brian Hinton MBE on the exhibition and Dickens/Cameron Connection:\nCharles Dickens and Julia Margaret Cameron make\, on the face of it\, an odd pairing. His world view embraces the grotesque\, the sentimental\, and the humorous She celebrates beauty\, the other worldly and the perfection of humanity And yet both in their different ways identified character\, and made work that outlasts the centuries . He created a whole world of men and women\, in all their aspects from grovelling to noble to laughable She created Platonic ideals of the mother\, the thinker\, the artist and the visionary\, from her all too human subjects.\nDickens was older\, and though he may well have met Julia at the Little Holland House Sunday afternoon gatherings\, hosted by her sister Mrs Prinsep after she came to England in 1848\, there is no record of their meeting on the Island. She certainly never photographed Dickens\, though she did fellow novelists like Trollope\, William Thackeray and his daughter Anne\, and writers like Thomas Carlyle\, Longfellow and – sadly now lost – Christina Rossetti\nDickens spent a brief holiday in Alum Bay\, and a long summer in Bonchurch\, erecting a power shower from the local stream\, doing magic tricks\, and writing part of David Copperfield\nThe link between novelist and photographer is a mutual friend\, Alfred Tennyson. The future Poet Laureate visited the writers’ community\, based around Punch magazine and the Revd White\, which settled in Bonchurch. It was from here\, with the young poet Edmund Peel\, that Alfred shared a small boat saling round the Needles\, and having landed was shown the then empty Farringford\, which he soon moved into. It was there that his friend from Putney\, Julia Margaret Cameron\, spent many a happy visit\, and Emily Tennyson found her the two newly built cottages which became Dimbola\, and Julia’s home from 1860 until 11875\nDickens was inescapable over that period\, not least because of the visual interpretations of his work by Cruickshank\, Leech and others And the very photographic medium that Julia used\, wet collodion\, is the same that captured Dickens for eternity\, now almost shockingly updated with skin tones from the novelist’s descendants\, forms the basis of the Technicolour Dickens show.\nWe pair this with images of Dickens’ own circle of acquaintances and friends\, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron. \nTechnicolour Dickens was developed in 2020 by the Charles Dickens Museum\, London\, in collaboration with Oliver Clyde\, with contributions from Dr Leon Litvack (Reader\, School of Arts\, English and Languages\, Queen’s University\, Belfast) and Dr Julian North (Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century English Literature\, University of Leicester). \nThe Charles Dickens Museum (Charity No 212172) is a fully accredited museum and is the leading centre for the study\, appreciation and enjoyment of the life and work of Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The Grade I listed building at 48 Doughty Street is the only surviving family home of Dickens in London\, and where he began married life\, became established as a writer\, and shot to international fame. Founded in 1925\, the Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of material relating to Dickens. With well over 100\,000 items comprising furniture\, personal effects\, paintings\, prints\, photographs\, letters\, manuscripts\, scrapbooks\, rare editions\, and legal & financial documents\, the collection is significant for its breadth and depth\, and allows us to explore the many facets of Dickens’s influence and legacy.
URL:https://dimbola.co.uk/event/past-exhibition-technicolour-dickens-the-living-image-of-charles-dickens/
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