This artist and writer explores language, linguistics and miscommunication at Eastbourne’s gallery devoted to emerging (often) conceptual artists. The show also features the launch of an online platform, Host Index, marking a new body of work that considers conjunctive, symbiotic and parasitic relationships between artworks. Harun’s novel, The Escape Artist, will be published by Book […]
Cinephiles of Sussex, rejoice! It's the return of CINECITY. Each autumn, the film festival puts on programme replete with world cinema, festival previews, live cinema and archive treasures. Most showings are in Brighton, with the highly notable exception of Depot in Lewes.
The latest exhibition presented by Chichester's excellent Candida Stevens Gallery takes the form of responses to the enormity of nature. Echoing notions of the Romantic sublime (which you may recall from school), painters Kerry Harding and Lucas Reiner sought not to depict the mere physicality of their subjects but instead how their sheer magnitude and […]
This elegant gallery usually limits its palette very carefully, so it’s something of a surprise to see its latest exhibition being so…. well, so colourful. As usual, curator Ann Symes has brought together a beautiful array of ceramics, textile art and prints, featuring the likes of Carolyn Genders, Natalie Bell, Sue Hurman, Caron Penney (who […]
In her short lifetime, ‘the most neglected serious painter of her time’ (Tate director Sir John Rothenstein) rarely exhibited her work, which she never signed, and was better known for her association with the Bloomsbury group than her artwork. Carrington received a flurry of recognition late last century, with a major retrospective of her portraits […]
The Old Market will host the first ever Brighton performance by pianist Joep Beving. Having amassed over 300 million streams on Spotify, Beving's star has seen a meteoric rise in a relatively short timespan. He has been lauded as an original voice, fusing elements of classical, pop and avant-garde in his playing. For this performance […]
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Clare Boyd-Wallis to the John Rank Gallery for a solo exhibition. Initially working in watercolour and mixed media, Boyd-Wallis was encouraged to switch to oils by a fellow painter Paul Treasure. She particularly enjoys the freedom oils give her to work with the paint over a number of days, the […]
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Fiona Bell Currie for a solo exhibition in the Wilson Gallery. Fiona Bell Currie migrated from Cheshire to Goldsmiths’ College in the 1970s to train as an art teacher. She worked in various London schools ending up lecturing in Observational Drawing in the Technical Illustration Department at Ravensbourne College. Fiona […]
Don't miss this excellent new show from Rottingdean's The Grange, which seeks to reconsider our relation to the natural world. Taking as its primary thematic concern the notion of the 'picturesque', the show consists of work by the brilliant Alej ez and Dee Ferris. There will also be a special conversational event on Sunday 17 […]
Depot will be hosting a special Ukrainian Supper club following our CINECITY screening of The Flowers of Ukraine. Working collaboratively with the local group Ukrainian Hearts, this will be an evening of Ukrainian food and culture. Ukrainian Hearts are a group of Ukrainian women who live in Lewes and work to raise money and awareness […]
Bask in some festive warmth this holiday season at Bateman's. The former residence of Rudyard Kipling, now managed by the National Trust, will be festooned with Jungle Book-inspired adornments, with the book's characters climbing and swinging their way around their creator's former home. Plus, local artist Claire Fletcher's watercolour illustrations will be on display. One […]
Morris and Lett-Haines lived and worked together for 60 years in Cornwall, Paris, and Suffolk, where they founded the East Anglian School of Painting at Benton End. Prominent artists in their own right (though Haines subordinated his career to further that of his partner), they also nurtured many talents including Maggi Hambling and Lucian Freud. […]
