Foundation degree art show

Saturday 19th May – Saturday 26th May 2012

This course is validated by Bath Spa University and includes links with the arts industries, live projects and a work placement, in addition to opportunities for students to develop their own professional practice. Successful students can progress from Salisbury to Bath Spa University to complete their degree. The work is wide-ranging in its exploration of ideas, subjects and themes and represents a culmination of each individual’s personal development since the beginning of the course. Personal integrity within the work, characterised by thought-provoking imagery and honest inquiry, together with an awareness of contemporary visual art underpins the ethos of this exhibition.

The ground floor Gallery shop will be open between 11am & 2.30pm for customers who have booked a table at the Sunday Brunch or anyone wishing to enjoy some relaxed shopping whilst listening to great live music!

Spring Workshops

Friday 11th May:Colour Workshop – Fairisle

Wednesday 23rd May EVENING: Learn to Knit

Wednesday 30th May EVENING: Lace Knitting

Wednesday 6th June EVENING: Improvers’ Workshop

Friday 6th & 8th June: 2day – Make your own felted bag

Tuesday 12th June EVENING: Finishing Techniques

Friday 22nd June: Colour Knitting Workshop

Tuesday 26th June EVENING: Knitting Flowers & Corsages

Summer Workshops

Friday 6^th July EVENING: Learn to Crochet

Tuesday 10^th July: Learn to Knit

Friday 13^th July: Entrelac

Friday 20^th July: Improver’s Workshop

Friday 3^rd August: Learn to Knit

Friday 17^th August: Colour Workshop

Thursday 23^rd August EVENING: Finishing Techniques

Friday 31^st August: Make a tea cosy

Tuesday 4^th September EVENING: Knitting in the round

Friday 7^th September: Cable Knitting – Make a cabled bag

Friday 14^th September: Learn to Knit

Tuesday 18^th September EVENING: Improver’s Workshop

Friday 21^st September: Brioche Knitting

Out of the wood

Saturday 2nd June – Saturday 30th June 2012

A diverse mix of work portraying the beauty of wood in different forms.’There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations” – Washington Irving

The Main family dominate Fisherton Mill’s history and the building itself is an important part of Salisbury’s heritage as the only industrial building left in the city centre. William Main chose Fisherton Street as the location for his Mill as at the time it was situated directly on the Market House railway siding which ran from the station to the Market House, now the City Library. The Mill had several functions which included the bulk cleaning of seed corn and crushing of other grains together with supplying the company’s shop in Salisbury’s market square, today the Nationwide Building Society. These goods were transported by horse and cart; the stables in the courtyard are now Fisherton Mill’s thriving studios housing independent businesses.

As the building was passed down through the Main family, social change made its mark. When William Main died, the business was inherited by his son, Leonard.  The business was interrupted from 1914 to 1918 when the Mill was requisitioned by the War Department as bonded warehousing for the Australian Army. It then flourished between 1920 and 1950, but when Leonard’s son, Ronald, took over in the 1960s, mechanisation and great changes to farming methods forced the family to diversify into horticulture and by 1984 the decision was taken to close the business.  The historic building has since been a carpet warehouse and an illegal rave venue, but in 1994 Michael Main, the great grandson of the original owner, rescued it and opened The Gallery.

Michael Fox & I successfully ran the Gallery Cafe alongside and then, in 2005, bought Fisherton Mill from the Main family and developed it into the popular and thriving business it is today.

Great gifts for loved ones!

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