October 18 2006 admin
Council Works
Around the Council in 80 Days
Thanks to Arts Council England funding, we were delighted to host a
six-month residency by nationally renowned photographer George Wright.
Although the County Council is Dorset’s biggest employer with 14, 500
staff, there can be a general big unknown about what councils actually do.
They are often grumbled about, and easily dismissed. This exhibition
challenges that perception and shows the wonderfully diverse jobs that
people within Dorset County Council do, and the commitment they have for
making life better for Dorset’s residents and visitors. Meet the Earth
Scientist who ‘looks after the rocks’, to School Patrols, ‘who keep our
children safe’ and the Mobile Library who ‘takes the library service to
those who would not otherwise not have access to books’.
The exhibition portrays the working lives of 144 employees in 80
portraits, and is accompanied by text stating what those people do, what
they enjoy and what they would do if they were not doing that job.
It leaves a record of how County Council’s operated in the early part of
the 21st Century, particularly interesting when in years to come, the
system may well have changed.
To view the exhibition at County Hall, Dorchester, Dorset, contact
mailto:Cleo.Evans@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Cleo Evans
Visual Arts Development Officer
