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FESTIVAL OF WESSEX 2026 • 33 DIONNE MARSHALL ‘RHYTHM OF LIFE’ A Tangle of Living Things This exhibition explores the relationships between plants, animals, ecosystems, and the ever-shifting boundaries between human and non-human life. From blooming botanicals to creeping undergrowth, from microscopic organisms to majestic wildlife, with work that honours the beauty, complexity, and fragility of life on Earth. 25 June - 7 September: Heart of The Tribe Gallery, 74 High Street, GLASTONBURY, BA6 9DZ. Thursday - Monday 11am - 5pm. 01458 832167 / heartofthetribe.com. Adrian Boot’s Punk Bridport UK punk erupted in 1976 like a cultural thunderbolt, driven by economic despair and a fierce rejection of the rock establishment. The Sex Pistols lit the fuse, while the Clash broadened punk’s horizons with reggae, politics, and social conscience. Bands like the Damned, Buzzcocks, and Siouxsie and the Banshees added their own voices to a scene that was short-lived but seismic, reshaping British music, fashion, and attitude for many decades to come. This exhibition of Adrian Boot’s photographs will explore the raw, unfiltered spirit of punk rock through a series of powerful images that capture the scene’s energy, attitude, and urgency. The work focuses on punk in the UK and USA as both a visual and a cultural movement, highlighting its fast, confrontational nature and its uncompromising rejection of established social and cultural norms. 4 July - 22 August: Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre, 9 South Street, BRIDPORT, DT6 3NR. Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. 01308 424204 / bridport-arts.com . Autumn 2026 Tincleton Gallery’s Autumn 2026 exhibition is a mixed show featuring their gallery artists. Dorset-based artist Imogen Bittner contributes excellent textile-based work, alongside atmospheric coastscapes in oil from Dorset contemporary Kim Pragnell. Devon-based printmaker Mary Gillett evokes coastal scenery, and Philippa Headley’s impressionistic landscapes in oil add colour. Bristol-based Ruth Ander continues her limpid monoprint series. Many other gallery and guest artists will also be exhibiting work, including Johannes von Stumm, Alison Wear, Almuth Tebbenhoff, and Ruth Chapman. 5 September - 27 December: Tincleton Gallery, The Old School House, TINCLETON, near Dorchester, DT2 8QR. Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm. 01305 848909 / tincletongallery.com. ‘THE CLASH UNDER LONDON’S WESTWAY, 1977’ An accidental double exposure. By Adrian Boot / urbanimage.tv The Drawing Room: Memento This group exhibition and co-created art making space weaves together three core themes: connection - our bonds with people, places, animals and the world around us, life and mortality - encouraging an appreciation for life by acknowledging the wonder of impermanence, and memory - how objects and gestures carry the past into our present, keeping stories alive. 24 July - 29 August: Pound Arts, Pound Pill, CORSHAM, SN13 9HX. Monday - Saturday 10am - 9.30pm. 01249 701628 / poundarts.org.uk . ‘ROLLING HILLS’ Bryony Cox: The Walker This exhibition will feature pastel drawings and paintings focused on the viewpoint of a walker experiencing the Wiltshire landscape one foot at a time. 11 June - 18 July: White Chalk Gallery, 5 Old Swan Yard, DEVIZES, SN10 1AT. Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. 07398 970439 / whitechalkgallery.co.uk . GEMMA DUNNELL