AFTER-IMAGE celebrates the close proximity of the Phoenix Art Space to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery by presenting a small but engaging display of paintings and photographs inspired by works in the Museum collection. This exhibition has been devised and curated by Geoff Hands, a PAS studio member. He writes, It is necessary for […]
A dialogue across generations unfolds in the cathedral’s soaring spaces, where John Piper’s vivid spiritual symbolism meets Alice Carter’s contemporary paintings. An exhibition and events programme celebrating the 60th anniversary of Piper’s iconic High Altar Tapestry, titled Glowing + Alive, runs until November; Carter’s Ashes to Fire, reflecting on the Easter story with bold colour […]
Canadian artist Jenine Marsh brings New Wishes, working with cast metals, embossed surfaces and altered everyday objects to trace the residue of touch, desire and small human gestures. Kolkata-born Sayan Chanda’s How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns? layers clay, fibre, pigment and reimagined ritual forms, drawing on folk divinities and hybrid cosmologies.
Do women need to be naked to get into the Met Museum? Well, in 1989 it seems they did: there were more nude paintings of women than women painters represented in New York’s institutional art museum, as anonymous feminist collective The Guerilla Girls pointed out in their famous campaign. Charleston is showcasing works from the […]
Ten sees Gallery57 mark a decade with an exhibition featuring makers previously shown in the space.
Brighton Fringe returns for its month long burst of comedy, cabaret, theatre, circus and other performative oddities. Expect the usual citywide Pandora’s Box of pop-ups, pub stages, backroom experiments and late-night surprises, as well as a renewed push to champion emerging talent and grassroots makers.
Brighton Festival returns for its 60th edition with a stellar line-up, including Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. As ever, the whole thing kicks off with the beloved Children’s Parade, and this year’s theme, ‘Read All About It’, will turn the city streets into a living library.
Brighton’s much-loved springtime sprawl of creativity returns as living rooms, studios, and seaside boltholes fling open their doors for another year. Expect everything from established painters and ceramicists to first-time exhibitors, community collectives, and the odd gloriously eccentric maker you’ll be talking about for weeks. With more than a dozen trails stretching from the seafront […]
For over twenty years, the artists and makers under the Art in Ditchling banner have built a distinguished reputation for their quality and diversity of creativity. Immerse yourself in this art and craft world and see a fascinating array of wonderful creative works. Enjoy meeting the makers and finding out about their work. As part […]
A quietly radical intervention into industrial might, Shh… explores silence as a charged force. Newhaven-based artists Isobel Smith and Abigail Norris met weekly, guided by a virtual Louise Bourgeois, letting strangeness and intimacy coexist. Over two years their dialogue shifted from conversation to paired works, allowing sculptures and images to speak for themselves. Part of […]
The centrepiece of Goodwood’s summer season is the first major UK presentation devoted to the trailblazing American land artist Nancy Holt. Ambitious in scale, the project extends from the galleries into the surrounding landscape, charting Holt’s lifelong fascination with systems, time, space and the ways we orient ourselves in the world. Since her death in […]
An interesting double header opens this spring at Charleston’s Lewes satellite. One exhibition focuses on Walter Sickert’s works on paper, examining the importance of drawings and prints to the proto-Modernist’s practice. Sickert, of course, was no stranger to Sussex, as a frequent visitor to Brighton and habitual user of the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry. Alongside it comes […]
