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CLOSED - Picture House Gallery?
« Thread Started on Apr 13, 2009, 8:34am »

Was a bit shocked to go past the Picture House Gallery yesterday and to see Closing Down Sale posters up at the windows!

The website seems to be down as well - www.picturehouseuk.com :-[

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« Reply #1 on Jul 17, 2009, 11:55am »

It is sad to see businesses fail - particularly arts-based enterprises which are so vulnerable in recessionary times. But I do feel that the Picturehouse did itself no favours in terms of its very limited range of artists and choice of material. I don't wish to get into a debate about 'what is art?' but frankly, work by artists like Caroline Shotton, Paul Horton, Sarah Jane Szikora, AJ Callan and Edward Monkton (et al) would have been better in the window of Clinton's Cards. I don't know what business arrangement The Picturehouse had as a 'Partnership Gallery' with the Washington Green organisation, but its concentration on work by artists like these prevented it ever feeling like a local gallery where one might have expected to find the work of Wessex-based artists. Like others, I suspect, I'd resigned myself to this, believing that the gallery obviously knew 'what worked' - and more importantly... 'what sold'. But clearly this wasn't the case. Very much a lost opportunity, I feel. My sympathy for those who lost their jobs with the closure of the gallery.

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Re: CLOSED - Picture House Gallery?
« Reply #2 on Nov 6, 2009, 3:06am »

I thought I would post that I have set up a website especially for dorset based artists at

www.dorset-art.com

Please check it out as we are looking for local artists to appear in our pages.

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