"I’ve always enjoyed walking in the countryside," says Gary Goodman, "embracing and acknowledging the magic of the season, the varying moods of the weather. In the past year, being in love and sharing these experiences, welcoming the spirits and feeling the mystic psychic sensations of these natural wonders, have fired me, andinspired me to make […]
Sussex-based Katharine Swailes and Caron Penney, master-weaver colleagues at the West Dean Tapestry Studio for 20 years, both use the technique of hand-woven tapestry to portray their different and varied techniques. The show is curated by Louise Weller, formerly of Pallant House Gallery.
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.’
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.
Cameron Contemporary, down the road from their usual premises, give a solo show to the Liverpudlian painter, 30 years a Brighton resident. Dean uses a unique collage-related technique he calls ‘reverse archaeology’, building up his works using layers of watercolour images.
Over 60 original artworks by the late (and much lamented) artist/author (from titles such as The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and The Iron Lady and the Tinpot Duke) as well as personal artefacts from his home, a mile down the road in Westmeston.
Remarkably, Pallant House’s publicity department declare this to be the ‘first major exhibition to explore British still life’. Artists exhibited include (draw a deep breath): Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Lucian Freud, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Anwar Jalal Shemza, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley […]
Some 60 exhibitors gather in the purpose-built marquee in the grounds of the West Sussex mansion (as seen recently in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon movie), their stands selling both antiques and art. Look out for Tom Rooth’s hand-drawn honeycomb ceramics, Gladwell & Patterson’s display of Peter Symonds’ landscapes, art deco furniture and accessories from Jeroen Markies, […]
The mainstay of this five-day art extravaganza is an exhibition of the paintings of the Bodimede brothers Matt and Nick, who were brought up in this beautiful area, where the Arun flows though a valley cutting through the South Downs. There will also be site-related abstract work by Emma Rimer and a video, Feed, created […]
A new body of work - paintings and sculpture - created over the last two years by Sussex artist Sarah Money. Sarah Money’s work is constantly evolving. A former dancer and mime artist, Sarah Money’s sculptures and paintings are filled with a fluid rhythm, as she explores the movement of the human form. Her work brings in […]
A selection of new works by Ipswich-based artist Naomi Munuo.
