26 MAY ~ 10 JUNE - Purbeck Art Weeks

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Biographies
Sheila Girling was born in Birmingham and
studied at the Birmingham School of Art before
attending the Royal Academy Schools in the
1950’s where she was a medal winner. There she
met Anthony Caro . They have been together
ever since. She has been a regular exhibitor in
the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, as well
as in many other London galleries. In the UK she
has had shows in Portland, Lyme Regis,
Cambridge, Camden Town and Edinburgh.
Overseas she has shown in New York, Edmonton, Florence and
Cyprus. Sheila’s work can be found in many private collections such
as in Spain, Germany, Canada and Windsor Castle. And now for the
first time in Swanage!
YouTuba Ensemble are a highly acclaimed young and innovative
tuba quartet. Since forming in 2006 while studying at Trinity College
of Music, YouTuba have been aiming
to make tuba quartet performances
more accessible and have
developed original arrangements
and compositions to reflect the
character of the ensemble. They
released their debut CD Carnival in
2009 to great critical acclaim and,
in 2011, created The Tuba Bears Picnic, a humorous narrative fusing
music and poetry with Ian McMillan and Simon Callow, which will be
released on CD later in 2012.
Philip Mansell Author is a historian of France and the Ottoman
Empire and the Middle East. He has published nine books of history
and biography relating to his main areas of interest. His latest book
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean was published
in 2010. He has travelled widely, lecturing in many countries
including the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Turkey. He has made a
number of appearances on radio and television.
Miranda Fulleylove Violin is adept at both
feverishly deciphering contemporary music still
wet upon the page or performing music ranging
over the last four centuries and is equally at home
on both baroque and modern violin. She is a
principal player and guest leader with both the
London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment, the resident orchestras of the
South Bank Centre in London. She tours and
records all over the world with both these ensembles.
Fergus McWilliam French Horn was born in Scotland and studied
initially in Canada and then in Amsterdam and Stockholm, making
his début as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony under Seiji Ozawa
at the age of 15. After orchestras in London and Detroit, he was