Artist Spotlight - Richard Gregory
11 August 2025
Our Droves & Downs bursary recipients have been busy exploring the area and researching into their chosen subjects. We will be highlighting the artists over the next few weeks before sharing a look into what they have been working on.
Richard Gregory is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on drawing, installation and digital works. He reflects on questions of memory, identity and origin using human geography, objects, natural environments and the act of walking as source material.
Richard Gregory shares “I never know what I will make at the start of an assignment. Each place has its magic, and I am excited by this opportunity to make work specific to Cranborne Chase, and unearth the surprises this landscape will inevitably offer as I connect with it through material, aliveness and sense of place.”
The project will culminate in a group exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre in November 2025 showcasing a diverse range of work exploring the multifaceted ecology and heritage of Cranborne Chase.
Droves and Downs is a Dorset Visual Arts project, part of the DVAtions programme. We would like to thank Dorset Council for their generous support with Culture and Community Funding.