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Sussex County Arts Club – ‘Volunteers and Prize Winners Show’
23 Jul, 2024 10:00 AM – 4 Aug, 2024 4:00 PM

For two weeks this summer, Oxmarket Contemporary will showcase work from the Sussex County Arts Club’s ‘Volunteers and Prize Winners’ show. The club, which is based in central Brighton, is open to both amateur and professional artists. It was formed in 1944 by a group of disaffected artists from The Brighton Arts Club who were unhappy about the policy of not admitting female members. The premises are still where they are today, in Bond Street Cottages, a building currently with five studios that had previously been the Green Room Club, a late-night watering hole for the clientele of the Theatre Royal.
From 1944, the club thrived with exhibitions in various locations including Brighton Museum and Hove Library. By the mid-1960s, the club had 300 members, with several branches in other parts of the county. Today, the club offers a varied programme alongside the drawing and painting sessions that includes lectures and in the summer months outside sketching and weekend schools with tutors.
Despite being a volunteer-run non-profit organisation, Sussex County Arts Club does pay for bookkeeping/accounts, a cleaner and of course their models! Their aim is to provide the community with cheap and affordable art sessions for all.
The work adorning the walls of Oxmarket will be a mixture of painting, drawing and sculpture. The fortnight will also see a talk on anatomy given by a member of the club.