site08 contemporary drawing exhibition 1st-22nd June Daily 10am-5pm Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road Nailsworth GL6 OLA tel: 01453 837537 www.rmet.co.uk This year’s site08 contemporary drawing show is curated by Noela Bewry and Sue Rae. The exhibition hopes to showcase breadth and variety in the approach to this discipline. This annual show provides an opportunity to see into the mechanics of drawing as well as to buy original works. On Sunday June 1st at 4.30pm Colin Glen, one of the exhibitors, will open a short informal talk and discussion on the theme of 'What is drawing?'

site08 darbyshire award 7th-29th June Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm The Museum in the Park Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF tel: 01453 763394 www.stroud.gov.uk/museum The site08 darbyshire award exhibition will present selected work from an open submission by UK based contemporary artists shortlisted by Peter Liversidge. Peter Liversidge has exhibited widely in Europe and the US. Liversidge exhibited at the recent Europalia Festival in Brussels, having been selected by the British Council as the UK’s representing artist. Darbyshire Framers will award a prize of framing services to one of the exhibiting artist and SVA will also host an exhibition at John Street, Stroud. Darbyshire Framers is a leading framer and art fabricator in the contemporary art world and has attracted a range of high-profile artists to commercial and public galleries such as Gagosian and White Cube Galleries.

Outside Space 14th-26th June Monday-Friday 11.00am-3.30pm Saturday 9.30am-4:30pm The Space Gallery Lansdown, Stroud tel: 01452 812224 & 01453 756064 www.walkingtheland.org.uk Walking the Land’s selection of artworks from 18 Gloucestershire artists who celebrate and respond to our local landscape and greenspaces. British landscape art is incredibly popular with the viewing public, reflecting our national affection for the countryside but also our fear of it’s potential loss. Gloucestershire’s countryside offers some of the most visually stimulating landscapes in the country. But as more of us live in towns and cities, we’ve become gradually separated from our landscape roots. In ‘Outside Space’ we see local artists relocating us with the landscape and green spaces through their artwork. Their role is to confront and challenge the viewer’s expectations of landscape and into accepting both the tradition of representational landscape painting, as well as a newer more contemporary interpretation of the subject involving other approaches, disciplines and media. next >>>

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site08 contemporary drawing exhibition: Lucy Voeckler drawing; site07 darbyshire award at Museum in the Park: River Severn Artwalk, Kel Portman/Walking the Land.