By Faith Eckersall
The complicated and thought-provoking artwork of the French-American artist, Louise Bourgeois, is now being shown in Dorset for the first time.
The exhibition sees the most important late works of the artist, who died in 2010, exhibited at Dorset Museum.

Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois settled in New York in 1938, where she remained for the rest of her life, continuing to make art until her death at the age of 98.
In a career that spanned most of the avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century, Bourgeois stayed true to her unique vision.

Her inventive work, inspired by her memories and experiences, spanned monumental installations, figurative sculptures, fabric collages, and drawings.
She is best known for the large-scale spider sculptures that she produced in the last decades of her life, including one she created for the opening of Tate Modern in 2000, pictured right.

The Dorset Museum exhibition includes highlights from the Artist Rooms national collection jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, such as the cage-like installation Cell XIV (Portrait) 2000.
The artist’s iconic Spider I 1995, will climb the museum’s entrance hall walls, and is one of several important loans from The Easton Foundation, featured alongside further key loans from the Artist Rooms Foundation and Tate.

The exhibition is free with an entrance ticket to the Museum.
Tickets are £14 for adults for day entry or £35 for an annual pass.
Booking details can be found at dorsetmuseum.org