Sam Jukes presents: Feral Systems: Entangled Wildness

Jukes’s practice explores ecology, sound, and our relationship with the environment through installation, sculpture, and moving image.

Feral Systems: Entangled Wildness is a multimedia installation of sound, sculpture, and film that explores and celebrates the ecological interrelationships found within the growing patchwork of wild and rewilded landscapes around Hooke and the Brit Valley.

The exhibition features a series of large sculptural forms inspired by structures found within the landscape. These forms operate simultaneously as evocative sculptural objects, bespoke loudspeakers, and projection surfaces.

Drawing from the natural environment, the work amplifies the voices, rhythms, and resonances of local ecologies, inviting visitors to encounter the landscape through listening. Sound recordings and films made within nearby wild places are brought together to create an immersive environment that encourages reflection on the complex relationships between people, landscape, and ecology.

The exhibition opens with an immersive viewing and listening event on Friday 10 July, 6–9pm, and continues on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July, 10am–4.30pm.

www.samjukes.co.uk 

ART@EYPE

Mid-July at Eype Centre for the Arts sees the return of a regular group of exhibitors, known collectively as ‘Art@Eype’.

The group is led by a core trio – imaginative artist David Brooke, portrait painter Elizabeth Sporne, and founder member, mixed-media artist Sally Davies, all Bridport-based. They are joined, each year, by different artists and makers invited from around the county (or sometimes a little beyond); this year their guests are pioneering copper painter Julie Oldfield, stone sculptor Ben Russell, landscape painter Caroline Tucker, wool sculptor Michelle Hickman, potter David Emery, and prizewinning photographer (and recently-elected Bridport town councillor) Neil Barnes.

In addition, the group runs their popular ‘Art@Eype café’ alongside the art, with teas, coffees and home-made cakes raising funds for a different good cause every year – last year’s donations totalled more than £400. In 2026 they are supporting the local chapter of the Forget Me Not Singers, a community choir for those living with dementia and their carers.

The Art@Eype exhibition runs 17th-19th July, opening 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday, and 10am-4pm Sunday. Details on Facebook and Instagram at @artateype.

Eight artists, all living within 15 miles of Eype, have come together to celebrate the colours and landscapes of the Jurassic Coast in a new exhibition.

Wessex Artists will present their work in a show called Kaleidoscope at Eype Centre for the Arts.

It features original prints, paintings and drawings by Alison Boyland, Sally Bowsher, Richard Corbett, Jane Coxhill, Deborah Harris, Tash Hayball, Kate Brookman and Hank Harp.

Artist Richard Corbett said: “We are a combination of fresh new talent and experienced artists who all met through classes, workshops and the local art community.

“Each person has their own colour palette, and style and Kaleidoscope expresses the multitude of colours in nature, from flowers to landscapes and seascapes, bringing them all together in a celebration of West Dorset.”

Kaleidoscope is on daily from July 23 to August 2, 10:30am – 4:30pm at Eype Church, near Bridport, DT6 6AR.

Artists will be there every day with some art available for sale.

There’s free parking, stunning coast views and the arts centre is very close to Eype beach – so come and make a day of it.

Imagination Unlocked 7

19th to 30th August 2026  10am to 4.30pm

This exhibition will feature the work of David Brooke, Caroline Ireland and Elaine Dixon, all painters who work from the imagination but in very different styles and mediums.  Be prepared to be taken on mysterious journeys into imaginary worlds,  or find inspiration in the extraordinary.

David Brooke’s work is meticulously painted in layers of acrylic paint.  His work has a mythological, story-telling feel to it, though his intention is that the viewer will bring their own stories to each painting.

Caroline Ireland’s work often has a dream-like quality in vibrant colours using pastel and watercolour, inspired by dreams, music or poetry, or simply from observation in the form of still life.

Elaine Dixon attempts to paint human emotions, experiences, events, using charcoal, oil paint and ink, playing with the human form to exaggerate shape, shrinking and enlarging, to attempt expression in her own way.