Catwalk creations by the likes of Dior, Fendi and Burberry alongside never-before-seen Bloomsbury portraits and personal items, including Virginia Woolf’s handbag, embroidered by Vanessa Bell. This exhibition, at Charleston’s new Lewes hub will run in tandem with the first UK survey show of leading British contemporary sculpture, installation and performance artist Jonathan Baldock.
This neo-pagan spectacular by leading contemporary artist Jonathan Baldock fills the top floor of the brand-new Charleston in Lewes arts hub with colourful large-scale sculptural works. Expect nature motifs, mannequins, and lots of tongues, made with fabric, paint and ceramics. Wonderful!
Through the Joy of the Senses This neo-pagan spectacular by leading contemporary artist Jonathan Baldock fills the top floor of the brand-new Charleston in Lewes arts hub with colourful large-scale sculptural works. Expect nature motifs, mannequins, and lots of tongues, made with fabric, paint and ceramics. Wonderful!
Hooray and up she rises! This summer, a unique event combining some of the finest artists in modern folk music is docking up at De La Warr Pavilion. Performed by Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter, Sea Song Sessions is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties. Check out […]
An interesting cast of writers have been booked to talk at the latest edition of this well-curated festival, which has been running since 2018. These include Tom Crewe, one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023 and winner of this year’s Orwell Prize for his historical novel The New Life; Nigel Planer, of Young […]
The 52nd edition of this popular festival offers a fortnight of arts-related activities and events, including author talks, tours, concerts and drama. Highlights include talks by Baroness Brenda Hale, President of the Supreme Court (of spider brooch fame) and Radio 4 presenter Michael Rosen, concerts by folk guitarist Martin Simpson and the Fay Hield Trio, […]
A new installation by book artist Su Blackwell reimagines the creative process which led Rudyard Kipling to conjure up his much-loved classic, The Jungle Book. ‘Bateman’s Reimagined’ is created from copies of the story’s original handwritten manuscript, commissioned especially for Bateman's. Kipling’s words loop and curl across hundreds of pages, nestling a model of the […]
Bourne & Allen's Modernist Textiles Marking ten years since its major redevelopment, this exhibition is all about the museum’s co-founder Hilary Bourne alongside Barbara Allen, her partner in life and creative practice. The pair ran an internationally successful textile studio providing cloth for the likes of Liberty and the Royal Festival Hall as well as MGM epic […]
A forerunner of the Tate’s big Women in Revolt show, this group exhibition is influenced by the work and spirit of one of its featured artists, the late Monica Sjoo, a radical feminist and exponent of the Goddess movement. What would happen if women ran the world? Also represented, inter alia, are Alice O’Malley, Delaine […]
Plastic Confetti refers to micro-plastics, nurdles and bio-beads; the degraded plastic pollutants found in our drinking water, seas, rivers and marine life, along the tideline, in the soil where we grow our crops, in the food-chain and our bodies, where it accumulates in our blood and organs, including the ovaries. Artist Helen Savage undertakes an archaeology […]
The newly renamed ‘King Charles III England Coast Path’ will, when complete, be the longest coastal trail in the UK. To celebrate, a five-day event called Walk the Chalk – centred on South Hill Barn, Cuckmere Haven and the Seven Sisters – will put on a series of free guided walks to explore the unique […]
Karla Black is predominantly a sculptor but describes her work – fashioned from plaster, paint, paper and chalk, but also utilising cosmetics and toiletries – as ‘almost painting, almost installation, almost performance art’. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011, and has represented her native Scotland at the Venice Biennale. And now she’s […]
