Event start date: 06/09/2025
Location: Drill Hall, Easton Street, Portland DT5 1BW and Tout Quarry.
‘One Island – Many Visions’ exhibition aims to ask questions about art and landscape, landscape and environment, and how artwork sits within this both creatively, and scientifically bringing together an interdisciplinary model of artistic practice. Pertinent to this approach it will provoke discussions about sustainability and climate change. This collaboration between the Royal Society of Sculptors & PSQT (Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust), co-curated by Dr Kate Parsons and Hannah Sofaer, respectively, encouraged the artists involved to create new work responding to the context of the local environment on Portland and Tout Quarry in particular; now a triple SSSI Nature Reserve and conservation area. The speakers have been chosen for their specialist knowledge relating to scientific and creative research that spills over into the work on show. Some of these themes relate to life cycles, mortality, mapping the landscape and how this changes, loss of habitat, recycling and use of ethical materials, origins of the English landscape and the artistic and scientific legacy going forward.