Community Takeover

18 June – 5 July, 2025

Our gallery space will be taken over by community groups for a variety of events and activities. We are creating a space for generating ideas, sharing thoughts, meeting, gathering and socialising.

We are inviting visitors and residents from Yeovil and beyond, of all backgrounds and ages to participate. Our activities across the three weeks align with themes of Diversity, Environment and Sustainability and Arts and Heritage.

The three week programme will take place right here in the gallery with the final day coinciding with Yeovil’s SuperSaturday event on the 5 July.

Join us! Be a part of this collective action bringing the community together!

Launch Events!

Join us on Wednesday 18 June as we launch the Community Takeover!

Launching on Wednesday 18 June the gallery is open 12-4. Visit us to share your views on the town centre regeneration in a Creative Ideas Drop In Session specially designed by artists LOW PROFILE. Join us at the table here in the gallery. We have some great activities to inspire conversation, to capture your imagination and your thoughts on the possibilities for the town’s regeneration.

In the evening we are delighted to host LOW PROFILE for a deep dive into their collaborative artist practice where they will share key projects and situate their current commission Anything You Can Think Of / Everything You Can Imagine within a wider context.

  • 6.30 – 7.30pm
  • FREE Event but do RSVP to let us know you are coming. Click the link below!
  • Refreshments available, donations welcome.
  • VENUE Yeovil Art Space, Unit 13-15 Vicarage Walk, Quedam Centre, Yeovil, BA20 1EU
  • Please note this is an in person event with LOW PROFILE attending remotely. There will be live transcription on the screen.

LOW PROFILE are artists Rachel Dobbs (IRL) and Hannah Rose (UK) – working together in collaboration since 2003, and based in Plymouth (UK). They develop artworks in response to specific contexts and situations, carefully shaping each element from the point of experience – positioning people and audiences at the heart of what they do.

They find ways to create human-to-human connection, temporary communities, collective experiences or situations that get people thinking about their own role as an individual who is part of a group (feeling part of something larger than themselves).

They regularly work with organisations across the UK, and on self-initiated artworks that shift in scale, format and medium depending on context. Recent projects have included Build It Together (2023), PEOPLE – Plymouth (2022), DRUMROLL (2020), PEOPLE – Preston (2019) and For me, for her, for you commissioned by The National Trust (2018).

We hope you can join us to launch the takeover and here more about this exciting collaboration.

The event is on the ground floor here at Yeovil Art Space. Our toilet facilities are on the first floor. If you have any enquiries please contact us on info@yeovilartspace.uk, thank you.

RSVP LOW PROFILE Artist Talk

Community Takeover Programme

The following activities are open to the public to come and join in!  
No need to book just drop-in on the day.

LAUNCH EVENT

Wed 18 / 12.30-3.30pm / Creative Ideas Drop In Session Visit us to share your views on the town centre regeneration in a specially designed activities by artists LOW PROFILE.

WEEK 1

Wed 18 / 6.30-7.30pm / Artist Talk with LOW PROFILE – Artists Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Rose providing a deep dive into their collaborative practice
Fri 20 / 3.30-5.30pm / Celebrating Refugee Week ‘The Door is Always Open’ / Welcome Hub, Yeovil4Family – Finding sanctuary in community for displaced people. Raising awareness about Refugee Week and how the public can engage with us to find out more.

WEEK 2

Wed 25 / 10.30am-1.30pm / Repair & Reuse / Able2Achieve – Focus on sustainability, repairing, reusing, good for your pocket and the environment!
Thu 26 / 11.30am-2.30pm / A Feast with Friends / Conversation Club, CCS – Sharing dancing and singing, food and books sharing different cultures together as friends, who feast and have fun’
Fri 27 / 1.00-4.00pm / Introduction to Scything / Able2Achieve – Talk and information from Joe Knight.
Fri 27 / 6.00-8.00pm / Pop-up Art Themed Youth Club / YMCA – Led by artist Rhiannon Cross

WEEK 3

Wed 2 / 1.00-4.00pm / Introduction / Yeovil U3A Art Group – Fascinating talk introducing the connections and positivity of the U3A and finding out more about the goings on in their amazing Art group
Wed 2 / 6.00-8.00pm / Our Town Poetry Performance /The Yeovil Poets Society – Poets from the Yeovil Poetry Society will entertain with their witty, poignant and life affirming poems about ‘Our Town’
Thu 3 / 1.00-4.00pm / ‘Designed Destination’ Pop-up display / South Somerset Heritage Collection – Archive materials, history and stories from the collection coordinated by Joseph Lewis and volunteers.
Thu 3 / 7.00-9.00pm / People, Planet, Pint / Small99 – Find out more about what’s going on with sustainability locally and how you can get involved.
Fri 4 / 2.00-3.30pm / Railway200, Yeovil’s Railway Heritage / Yeovil Railway Centre – An overview of the fascinating history of Yeovil Railways. Part of the ‘Railway 200’ celebration of 200 years of the railway.
Sat 5 / 11.00am – 3.00pm / Our Town Creatives Drop-in/ Yeovil Creatives’ Members – Join artists from the YAS membership in creativity! You are invited to make and create with a range of activities on offer, from pom-pom making, collage, weaving and sewing. No experience required, welcome all!


Community – New Exhibition.

A specially designed exhibition entitled ‘Community’ will display artwork from Yeovil College Level 3 Art & Design students as the college and Yeovil Art Space have been working together on a brief for the students.  The students have been exploring public art, social design and the reflection of community through these themes.  Artworks will include stories, images and symbols that relate to the town. 

Yeovil Art Space will also be displaying artwork from some of the groups involved in the Community Takeover for example the U3A Art Group, with a member of the U3A will be giving a talk in the gallery on the afternoon of Wednesday 2 July.