Monkton Gallery reopened for 2006 with a taster exhibition for Dorset Art Weeks, featuring samples of work from other participating venues.

This website is currently being updated, some pages still refer to 2005 events and artists.
We apologise for the inconvience.

The gallery's first major promotion for 2006 appeared as a listing in the Diary dates in the April Homes and Gardens magazine :-

Could've Fooled Me!
was an exhibition staged over the weekend of 1st and 2nd April 2006.
Local artists displayed work inspired by the Post-Contemporary Conceptual Art Movement.
Including glimpses of recent Turner Prize entries interpreted in a neo-rural context.
Also featuring sideways-looking tributes to twenty-first century visionary equivalents.
Re-launching the careers of recently emerging proto-energists, rigorously amalgamated with the negatively-empowered empathists.
Follow this link to see an archived catalogue.

ARTYFACTS was a project run in collaboration with the Dorset County Museum. It featured on the BBCi website and in the region's press. You can click on the logo to find out more.

RAFT artists and craftworkers

There are no formal rules binding our association, it's more of an organic network of professional Dorset artists and craftworkers. Whenever there's a good idea to be shared we pass it on, and often work together on different projects.

Below is a list of those who have become part of RAFT through the years. Click on their names to send them email, or if they have a website you can click on the W logo.

John Bullock	Land Artist & Musician
Jane Burden	Painter and Mixed Media, Art Tutor
Michael J Chappell	Painter
Elaine Collett	Painter and Printmaker
Gill Coombes	Potter
Bill Crumbleholme	Potter
Virginia Evans	Painter
Vicky Finding	Painter
Paul Hyland	Poet and Author
Pippa Hill	Ceramic Sculptor
Caroline Ireland	Painter and Mixed Media
Peter Lightfoot	Painter
Lorna Low	Painter
Pat March	Studio Potter
Cece Mills	Painter and Glass Sculptor
Elle Neale	Painter
Sally Pinhey	Painter and Illustrator
Annalisa Renee	Sculptor, Land Artist
Sheila Sanford	Watercolour Miniaturist
Eileen Sarup	Textile Artist
Jon Sloper	Painter and Designer
Stoneform - Zoë Cull and Alex Evans	Stone Carvers, Lettercutters
Peter Thomas	Wood Turner and Stick Maker
Tim Whitmore	Collage and Drawing
Annabel Wilson	Painter and Printmaker