Exhibitions & events

Process and Revelation: a Visual Dialogue
A collaborative exhibition by Alison SummersBell and BU Archaeology Field School, in the Atrium Gallery.

This research and resulting series of works has developed from a collaboration with BU’s Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Field School on the Durotriges dig in Dorset. Often using materials excavated from the site, Alison has set about recording and interpreting the experience of this Iron Age dig using methodologies embedded in painting and mark making. 

Alison approaches this collaboration as fieldwork, using the language of science and art in an interchangeable way in the search for a dialect that crosses over the disciplines. Her work appropriates archaeological methodologies and academic language from site digs to inform her  practice. Like many archaeological ideas Alison’s work does not make suppositions or search for a quick aesthetic outcome, rather it tries to go through the same rigorous exposing of layers of meaning through excavation.

Visit the website for more information about The Durotriges Project.

In the Lees Gallery from the 6 February to the 7 April 2023, you will be able to come and view academic posters developed by students on the BU Business School Foundation Year, focusing on their consultancy project work in the unit Fusion Business Projects.

The posters identify the student's plans for conducting consultancy projects, gathering data from a range of stakeholders, in order to develop recommendations for the best use of Bournemouth high street, as we seek to encourage a renewed use of the space.

To view the projects, pop into the Lees Gallery, in the Lees Lecture Theatre Lobby, just outside Poole House on Talbot Campus.