This year’s edition, guest-directed by sitarist, composer and activist Anoushka Shankar, is the first under new CEO Lucy Davies, after 16 years with Andrew Comben at the helm. We’re particularly looking forward to AYNA by Brighton-based Ceyda Tanc Dance, Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams (see ROSA #12 page 40) and JJ Waller and Martin Parr’s […]
This year's summer exhibition at Champs Hill sees a selection of paintings by Peter Iden, whose later career - before his untimely death in 2012 - almost entirely focussed on semi-abstract (read 'neo-Impressionist') oil paintings of the South Downs in his native West Sussex. Access by appointment only at thebct.org.uk
Over 100 exhibitors present more than 3,000 artworks at a variety of prices from £50 to £3,000. The fair kicks off with a fizz-fuelled preview evening; some of the profits will go to the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
A deep dive into Mod culture, youth rebellion, and the sharp tailoring that defined a generation. Includes garments, photography, music ephemera, and personal stories from Brighton’s own Mod scene, focusing on the Bank Holiday riots that shook the nation and inspired The Who’s classic 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia, made into a film in 1979. Runs […]
We are delighted to be hosting a two-artist exhibition, Wellspring, featuring paintings by Arundel artist Andy Waite and London-based ceramicist Katie Moore. Andy Waite’s work explores a drifted world, a departure from places we recognise, allowing fragments of elsewhere to move into the conscious, creating an untethered cartography of saturated colour through the alchemy of […]
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Anyone who visited Too Much to Dream at Phoenix Art Space in November will know what to expect from the same artist group at Regency Town House. Part pop-art, part Victoriana, part gothic surreal, with plenty of punk-rock attitude, from Maxine Allan, Billy Chainsaw, Girl Shit, Gavin Jay, Rob Rinn and Mal Troon. Expect collage, […]
Oxmarket are looking forward to an exhibition by Consuelo Simpson, Dawn Langley and Janet McWilliam who have come together to share their latest work and their experimental approach to their fine art practices. Each artist embraces investigational contemporary methods as they explore the human experience. Through an exploration of colour, line, texture, layering, geometry and […]
Oxmarket are excited to welcome back Daniel Freaker to the Wilson Gallery for a 2 week exhibition. Freaker taught art and design for many years at Chichester College and has since developed a large following on Instagram and exhibits internationally with his instantly recognisable palette and bold imagery. Freaker graduated from the Slade School of […]
Two weeks of readings, interviews and performances from a world-class cast of writers, actors and performers. This year’s menu includes Withnail & I actor Richard E Grant, Lewes-based folk legend Shirley Collins, and novelist, poet and playwright Deborah Levy. Travis Alabanza delivers the flagship Charleston Monologue.
Born Marjorie Watson-Williams, Vézelay was a British abstract artist who cut her artistic teeth in Paris among Modernist avant-garde greats such as Alexander Calder and Wassily Kandinsky, before experimenting with Surrealism and Constructivism. This exhibition, which debuted at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, offers insight into Vézelay’s seven decade career, featuring paintings, […]
