Towner is celebrating Eric Ravilious’s Eastbourne roots with a permanent gallery dedicated to his work. Over 100 works will be on view, including the recently discovered Mackerel Sky (1938) and much-loved pieces such as The Long Man of Wilmington and Cuckmere Haven (both 1939). The gallery will also display work from collaborators such as his […]
Sophie Barber’s ‘cushion’ canvases don’t just hang – they slouch, bulge, and whisper secrets from the Sussex countryside. Barber, a native of Hastings, enjoys her first major exhibition in this seaside gallery, riffing on repeated motifs, notably sunflowers and birds. The curious title references a slice of old Sussex weather lore. Get between the folds […]
Isabel Rock's Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannnot Hold, one of three brilliant shows running concurrently at Hastings Contemporary, can perhaps best be described as an exuberantly psychedelic doomsday cult. There’s lots of fun to be had with Rock’s giant rat in an open-top sports car and her replica prison cell with a giant slug […]
A return home, of sorts, for ‘the two Roberts’, the Bloomsbury linked artists and lovers MacBryde and Colquhoun, who lived and worked in Lewes for two years shortly after WW2. This is the first major exhibition in England since 1962 to chart the remarkable arc of the influential pair’s artistic journey, from the charged atmosphere […]
To celebrate his life and work in the 250th year since his birth, Towner Eastbourne are exhibiting some of J.M.W. Turner's finest watercolours held in private collections. The exhibition seeks to contextualise Turner among his contemporaries, such as Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman, and to capture the excitement that developments in landscape painting caused […]
“Other people take photographs. I try to find photographs.” So said Jane Bown, the Observer newspaper’s go-to portrait photographer for some six decades, and a talented photojournalist to boot, whose reputation soared towards the end of her career, and just keeps on soaring after her death, aged 89, in 2014. Now, a retrospective of her work, curated by Dr […]
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 […]
Roger Fry is famous as the critic and curator who brought Post-Impressionism to Britain, but he was also a painter in his own right and this exhibition is the first for 25 years to bring together his portraits, landscapes and interiors, particularly from the period he spent in Paris in the 1920s. Organised in partnership […]
The first major exhibition of the English painter’s work in 20 years, spanning the whole of his prolific career from the Victorian era to post-WW2. Nicholson was primarily known as a portrait painter, but also offered an important contribution to the still life and landscape genres, as well as producing publicity posters, costume designs and […]
Self taught sculptor Steve Bicknell is delighted to have his third show at the Oxmarket Gallery with the Private View on Tuesday February 3rd at 6.00pm. Steve will be showing a range of ceramic and bronze sculpture in the Wilson Gallery displayed to give a sense of the dramatic! The show will feature several new […]
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back Nicola Rose for an exhibition in the John Rank gallery, after a recent relocation to Shetland. Nicola’s love of wild and dramatic weather and landscapes means that she has this in abundance, Shetland’s wild seas, huge skies and ancient granite cliffs where glaciers once scoured dominate the land. Nicola […]
A solo exhibition by artist Laura Callaghan, inspired by the rhythms of tide and season, revealing hidden worlds of change, resilience and renewal.
