PEDAS Projects
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PEDAS Dorset Art Weeks exhibition
24 May - 10 June 2024, 'Celebrate!'. ‘Celebrate!’ will be a vibrant, uplifting reflection of the club, its people and the locality. For it, members have been urged to research art movements from the past 100 years. Helen Talbot will be supporting members in this. Part of Dorset Art Weeks. Helen held a brainstorming session to help us get the creative juices flowing. It was an eye opener and incredibly inspiring. If you missed the session, Helen has kindly sent us a precis of the work she had prepared for us. Click HERE for Helen's precis Railway Posters Create an Artist's Book Keeping a Sketchbook Members, click here for Entry form and t's and c's 
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'TREE' - PEDAS Members' project for DAWs 2021
Why ‘TREE’?
One of our Members was so taken by the Arborealists’ exhibition in Salisbury recently that she wrote to the newsletter saying:
“I saw the Arborealists’ exhibition yesterday. It was excellent, because of the many different interpretations: individual trees, trees in the landscape, trees in the city, close up bits of roots, leaves, bark... I thought that it might make an interesting subject for a future PEDAS exhibition ….” Click here to continue
'TREE' - PEDAS Members' project for DAWs 2021
Why ‘TREE’?
One of our Members was so taken by the Arborealists’ exhibition in Salisbury recently that she wrote to the newsletter saying:
“I saw the Arborealists’ exhibition yesterday. It was excellent, because of the many different interpretations: individual trees, trees in the landscape, trees in the city, close up bits of roots, leaves, bark... I thought that it might make an interesting subject for a future PEDAS exhibition ….” Click here to continue
Arborealist, David Wiseman
OTHER PROJECTS
Regular art projects are organized for members. Most notably we have in the past provided art work for waiting areas at Poole Hospital Trust, and produced sculpture for an exhibition at The Study Gallery in Poole... now Birds of our Shoreline
Regular art projects are organized for members. Most notably we have in the past provided art work for waiting areas at Poole Hospital Trust, and produced sculpture for an exhibition at The Study Gallery in Poole... now Birds of our Shoreline
BIRDS OF OUR SHORELINE
There's a fluttering above your head these days, if you go through the entrance to the courtyard outside the Tea Rooms and The Gallery Upstairs.
Management at Upton Country Park have long thought this was a dark and uninviting entrance, so members of Poole and East Dorset Art Society and the Gallery committee were asked for their help. The resulting display is part of the Upton Country Park Discovery Project.
Back in the summer you may have noticed the appearance of a blue sky and fluffy white clouds, just waiting for some bird-life. With the help of staff from “Birds of Poole Harbour”, PEDAS artists identified some of the iconic birds of this area, and the project “Birds of our Shoreline” was under way.
The artists drew out scale drawings of birds in flight, cut out life-sized outlines on foam board which were then transposed by the group “Poole Men’s Sheds” onto MDF and carefully cut out. The birds range in size from the tiny kingfisher to the magnificent black backed gull with its one and a half metre wingspan.
The “fun bit” for the artists was to add the lifelike colouring with acrylic paint. The “not so fun bit” was finding a way to attach them safely to the ceiling in line with Health and Safety guidelines concerning small fingers reaching into them and getting trapped. Much thought was given to the arrangement of the “flypast” to show them to best advantage.
An identification board is being prepared to add to the display, and possibly a few more birds too. Meanwhile look up as you enter the courtyard and see if you can name them all.
Liz Magee
There's a fluttering above your head these days, if you go through the entrance to the courtyard outside the Tea Rooms and The Gallery Upstairs.
Management at Upton Country Park have long thought this was a dark and uninviting entrance, so members of Poole and East Dorset Art Society and the Gallery committee were asked for their help. The resulting display is part of the Upton Country Park Discovery Project.
Back in the summer you may have noticed the appearance of a blue sky and fluffy white clouds, just waiting for some bird-life. With the help of staff from “Birds of Poole Harbour”, PEDAS artists identified some of the iconic birds of this area, and the project “Birds of our Shoreline” was under way.
The artists drew out scale drawings of birds in flight, cut out life-sized outlines on foam board which were then transposed by the group “Poole Men’s Sheds” onto MDF and carefully cut out. The birds range in size from the tiny kingfisher to the magnificent black backed gull with its one and a half metre wingspan.
The “fun bit” for the artists was to add the lifelike colouring with acrylic paint. The “not so fun bit” was finding a way to attach them safely to the ceiling in line with Health and Safety guidelines concerning small fingers reaching into them and getting trapped. Much thought was given to the arrangement of the “flypast” to show them to best advantage.
An identification board is being prepared to add to the display, and possibly a few more birds too. Meanwhile look up as you enter the courtyard and see if you can name them all.
Liz Magee
Poole & East Dorset Art Society (PEDAS) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Registered Charity no 1184632
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