“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 […]
Part of CineCity 2025, The Haunted Moustache is a filmed version of a one-man stage show by the inimitable local writer, broadcaster and performer David Bramwell. Expect the occult, mind altering drugs and a ‘cabaret of misfits’, including Hippy Lily, Dave Suit and the enigmatic Drako Zarhazar.
This year enjoying its fifth edition, SCFF has grown into a lively independent showcase for international and local talent, with categories spanning Short Film, Documentary, Feature Film, Smartphone Film, Foreign Film, TV Pilot and Horror Short. Last year’s big winner was Anastasia Arsentyeva’s Clara, which scooped up Best Short Film and Best Period Drama. Dim […]
Until the 22 November, Robertsbridge gallery theblackShed is exhibiting the work of conceptual artist Nikki Davidson-Bowman. Titled Pathways, this show explores the precarity of being human and female stories of resilience. Drawing on personal experiences of grief and illness, Davidson-Bowman uses a ritualistic process of making to foreground a sense of unpredictability and dynamism in […]
We invite you to step into the candlelit grandeur of the Paris Opera House for a night of dining and classic silent cinema at our one-of-a-kind Phantom of the Opera Soirée Following our screening of the 1925 classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney and with a live score from composer Paul Robinson […]
The Society of Designer Craftsmen – one of the UK’s largest and most prestigious craft organisations – brings its latest exhibition to Oxmarket Contemporary in Chichester this autumn. Supporting its members through major exhibitions, events and creative networks, the Society offers contemporary makers the opportunity to be part of a family that stretches back over […]
A behind-the-scenes tour exploring the extraordinary legacy of former West Dean (and nearby Monkton House) owner Edward James, who collaborated with such artists as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Leonora Carrington. The tour is guided by Collections Manager Hugh Morrison and Archivist Simon Coleman.
The Catalyst Club is a monthly event which features a changing programme of speakers, who each present on a topic of their choosing. Specialising in the weird and the wonderful, you can be sure of an equally delightful and intriguing evening. This edition features award-winning nature writer Mike Unwin, Danny 'Drugs in the Bible' Nemu […]
The delightful Artists & Makers Fair returns to Lewes this November, bringing with it over 80 carefully chosen artists and makers, including dozens of first-time stallholders. Expect a panoply of pleasing gifts, artworks and homewares. Plus, there's a café open throughout the day. Saturday 15th November 10am-5pm Opening Night: Friday 14th November 6pm-8.30pm
2025 is already shaping up to be a landmark year for Sussex craft, and it just got even better; Towner Eastbourne has announced the programme for its popular Makers' Fairs. Be sure to pay a visit and enjoy fine crafts from talented local makers and small business, as well as craftspeople from further afield. Ceramics […]
‘When I went out I stole an orange/ I kept it in my pocket/ It felt like a warm planet’. This exhibition brings together 60-odd painters, sculptors, writers and poets (in a new gallery) in response to Brian Patten’s poem of the same name. Artist and organiser Sarah Shaw says: ‘This is, overwhelmingly, a show […]
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 […]
