Exhibitions & Awards
November 5th - 18th
Shaftesbury Arts Centre
10am - 4pm daily
Droves & Downs features new work from four artists who received bursaries from Dorset Visual Arts to develop a body of work in response to the Cranborne Chase National Landscape. Annabel Beasley, Siân Cann, Tonia Gunstone and Richard Gregory spent the summer researching the Chase’s ecology and heritage, creating work around the meadows, river systems and byways, as well as aspects of its communities and human history.
Siân has created several brand new watergrams in the rare chalk streams of the Cranborne Chase under the natural darkroom of the Dark Sky Reserve, as well as a unique series of Polaroid emulsion lift/watergram hybrid studies, and other works in direct response to her discoveries in the landscape.
The Dorset Open 2025
The Dorset Open is a brand-new major open art competition, marking a landmark first collaboration between Dorset Visual Arts and Dorset Museum and Art Gallery.
Siân has 2 pieces selected for this exciting exhibition, which will be on display at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery from 18th October - 30th November.
Biophilia at Dorset County Hospital
Siân’s unique watergram ‘Hydro/Dendro’ is currently on show at Dorset County Hospital as part of Biophilia, an exhibition which brings imagery of trees into the hospital, providing the healing benefits of being in Nature to those who are too unwell to get outside.
The exhibition will then be touring onto Bath University Hospital. The show is a collaboration between Arts in Hospital, The Arborealists and Dorset Visual Arts.
Exhibitions and Awards
June - November 2025 - Dorset Visual Arts ‘Droves and Downs’ Project selected artist
June 2025 - ‘In Our Nature’, Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park
April - July 2025 - Biophilia, Dorset County Hospital, Arts in Hospital and Dorset Visual Arts
October 2024 - October 2025 - Shutter Hub ‘Return To The Sea’
outdoor exhibition, Worthing Seafront
October 2024 - RIPPLES RUN DEEP SOLO SHOW
ACEarts, Somerton, Somerset
September 2024 - ImageNation Milan invited artist
March 2024 - Arts Council DYCP recipient
October 2023 - Bath Arts Prize finalist
October 2023 - ACEarts Open ‘23 WINNER
September 2023 - Thelma Hulbert Open Exhibition
August 2023 - Gallery Gwyn Summer Show, Aberaeron, Wales
July 2023 - Evolver Prize 2023 finalist
June 2023 - Invited artist for View of Yeovil photography exhibition at Yeovil Arts Centre
June 2023 - Fringe Arts Bath Awe and Wonder exhibition
May 2023 - InstantCologne Instant Photography International Exposition, Germany
December 2022 - Commissioned for RNIB 2023 supporter calendar
November - December 2022 - Burton at Bideford Annual Christmas Open Exhibition
November - December 2022 - Featured Maker at MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey
September - October 2022 - ‘Drawing Near The Light’ bursary exhibition at Black Swan Arts, Frome, for Somerset Art Weeks
August 2022 - October 2022 - Art at the Heart, Royal United Hospital Bath, SAW Members’ Show
August 2022 - Climate Change Group Exhibition, The Seagull Gallery, Cardigan
April 2022 - Somerset Art Works Creative Pathways Bursary recipient
December 2021 – MAKE Southwest Christmas MAKE exhibition
August 2021 – ‘The Female Gaze’ photography exhibition, West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff