Join us for the Opening Preview of You're Not Aline: Women in Art 2025 on Friday 27th June, 6.30-9pm at B.A.D. (Boscombe Arts Depot)

FREE, OPEN TO ALL

Presenting ‘You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025’, two site specific exhibitions across Muzeum Śląskie in Katowicach, Poland and Boscombe Arts Depot in Bournemouth, UK, as part of the events programmed for the UK/Poland 2025 Festival initiated by the British Council.

You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 brings together ten visual artists; their experiences as women outside mainstream art and education and foregrounding their significant contributions to contemporary art.

Featuring works by artists living in the South and Southwest of England it includes:

Mahlia Amatina, Kate Bradbury, Ann Churchill, Yvonne Mabs Francis, Sarah Jane Hender, Delaine Le Bas, Kim Noble, Elinor Rowlands, Patricia Shrigley and Kwaga Sillingi.

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Please RSVP to attend the Opening Preview of the exhibition.

The exhibition will then continue 28 June - 17 August and no ticket is required.

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You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 Exhibition continues

28 June – 17 August 2025, 11am - 6pm | B.A.D. Gallery

The UK/Poland Season 2025 is a diverse programme of over 100 multi-artform events in 40 cities in both countries.

Muzeum Śląskie (Katowicach)
19 June – 26 October 2025

Boscombe Arts Depot (Bournemouth)
28 June – 17 August 2025

Image - Portrait in Blue (detail) by Elinor Rowlands, 2022.

Getting to B.A.D.

If you are coming by bus: Take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if coming from Southbourne, or next to Aldi if coming from Poole and Bournemouth. Walk along the highstreet and please come to the main entrance at B.A.D., directly opposite Costa.

If you are coming by train: Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15-20 minute walk to B.A.D. Turning right out of the station, walk straight down Christchurch Road until you reach Marvo Mysteries Escape Room, where you will cross over onto the pedestrianised precinct and continue walking past Boscanova cafe to B.A.D.

If you are coming by car: You can reach us via the A35 and Ashley Road. We would recommend parking in the Sovereign Centre Car Park, from which you can follow directions to the highstreet where you’ll find the main entrance, opposite Costa.

Accessibility:

If you have any accessibility needs when it comes to parking or travel, please let us know prior to the event and we will do what we can to support you.

Accessible toilets are also available in Boscombe Sovereign Centre.

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