One Island - Many Visions is a Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust collaboration with the Royal Society of Sculptors, involving 27 artists’ residencies, and research outcomes over 18 months, resulting in the exhibition, symposium and community events. Royal Society of Sculptors members have worked collaboratively with PSQT Living Land Archive Project for the regeneration of quarry landscapes alongside members of the Portland community.
Location: Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust, Drill Hall Gallery, Easton Lane, Portland DT5 1BW and Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve
Date: Exhibition and installations: 6 September-31 October 2025. PV: 6 September 6-9pm. Symposium: Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 September. Plus other Events.
Open Times: Drill Hall Gallery, Thursday - Sunday weekly 11am- 4pm. Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve open daily
Free Admission
Riot
Found, recycled and donated materials: beach waste (ghost netting, rope, hard hats, fishing floats), wire, textiles (some home-dyed with natural pigments), wool, twine, plastic, sponge, polyester, natural debris, sandbags
2025
Riot is inspired by Maritime Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria Parietina) growing on the rocks in this quarry, their colour, folds, and radial growth. Ancient life forms of fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria in symbiosis, Lichen are the slowest growing of all known organisms. Lichen are sensitive to atmospheric pollution, signifying pure air, but are also resilient and play a vital role in nutrient cycling.
Created from recycled materials (including beach waste donated by Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project CIC), to form a layered mass of line, texture and colour, Riot is an expression of soft rebellion, a reflection on ‘troubled beauty’, Arts Precario. It spotlights our wasteful consumerist society, and negligent treatment of our ocean.
Labour-intensive processes of weaving, wrapping and hand stitching refer to line as energy, tentacularity, thread as the universal component of the cosmos. Fiona’s approach is a form of suturing, artivism, care and repair, slow art, giving abandoned objects new life.
A site-responsive intervention, Riot is also a wearable sculpture. There will be a transient performance at this site (in Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve) on Sunday 14 Sept, 2pm, a collaboration between Fiona Campbell and Melanie Thompson, in which the human body activates the work.
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There will be a range of other events. Fiona will be leading an Eco Sculpture Workshop, Friday 10 Oct 2-4.30pm, Drill Hall). Book: fionacampbell-art@sky.com. She will also be taking part in an Artists-in-Conversation, Sunday 19 Oct 2pm with Ros Burgin, Nicola Turner, Rebecca Newnham, Kate Parson & Hannah Sofaer, chaired by Freeny Yianni (Close Ltd).
Riot (detail)
Fiona Campbell with Riot. Photo Jason Bryant
Fiona Campbell with Riot. Photo Russell Sach