Mary gained her BA in Fine Art in the late 1960s at the Art Department of the University of Newcastle, sharing a studio with the now world-famous painter, Sean Scully. Mary’s work is joyful, happy, exuberant and colourful semi-abstract expressionism, containing themes of birds and moons, rich foliage, patterns and images from life experiences, emotions, […]
‘I took my items – a pair of fully fashioned stockings, knitted pieces, and later a string vest – to the printers and put them directly onto the plates.’ The resulting prints by artist and weaver Ann Sutton have rarely been seen since she stored them away over 50 years ago. See them (and buy […]
Fascination with celebrity is not a modern phenomenon. During the 19th century, Edo in Japan (present-day Tokyo) was the world’s largest city, and it teemed with a million people who enjoyed nothing better than visiting its lively entertainment district, Yoshiwara. Yoshiwara offered high-class brothels and tea houses to take one’s pleasures in. But those who […]
You and a guest are warmly invited to attend the launch of the new edition of ROSA magazine. The event will be held at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft on 12 March, and includes entry to their current exhibition. Please see the invitation above for further details. We look forward to seeing you there! Artist […]
This show by acclaimed company Ceyda Tanc Dance -a celebration of what it means to be female - is already selling out so book fast. It was one of the highlights of the 2023 Brighton Festival and is a part of TOM (The Old Market's) Reigning Woman season starting in February 2024.
A first major solo show in Europe for the Ethiopian multi-disciplinary artist, who weaves everyday materials into lyrical abstract compositions, ‘alluding to the frictions between tradition and progress, human contact and social networks, nature and the man-made, and physical presence and the virtual.’
Iconic illustrator Sir Quentin Blake is no stranger to Hastings, having lived in an ancient house in the Old Town for forty years. Don't just take our word for it - Blake himself has described the seaside town as his "spiritual home". It is an appropriate place, then, to host this very special exhibition of […]
Continuum is a unique collaboration of MA and PhD alumni artists and makers from the UCA network in Farnham, who are now scattered across the south of England from London to Wales. Having each developed their own practice, through innovative craftsmanship and expertise, many continue to explore the boundary between the crafts and the arts. […]
Oxmarket Contemporary's Wilson Gallery welcomes the Philpots, three artists from the same family, bringing together very different styles of work. Ellie Philpot loves to create unique contemporary pieces that bring statement, perspectives and colour into a space. She uses everyday things around her as her subjects and strives to include narrative in her work, taking […]
Announcing his second show at Gallery 19a (formerly Coachwerks), Brighton based painter Geoff Hands presents a selection from a group of works that started during the first period of lockdown in 2020 and continues to this day. In the relative safety of his Phoenix Art Space studio, many of the Sussex landscape and Welsh garden […]
Bloomsbury fringe member Patricia Preece was the wife of Stanley Spencer, and a much lauded mid-century painter in her own right. Or was she? Her marriage to Spencer was never consummated, and there is intriguing evidence that most, if not all, of her exhibited work was painted by her long-term lover Dorothy Hepworth.
Christopher Cristóbal Newberry brings his ever-evolving work, encapsulated in this exhibition, which depicts different phases of his artistic development. He is fascinated by symmetry, repetitiveness, cycles, change, progression. His use of intense colour is very much influenced by his upbringing in Mexico, but his interests in truth, reality, perception and beliefs have been developing over […]
