(From Spectre of the Real exhibition in April 2019, Brighton) In this two hour workshop you will make a star-shaped lantern out of withy (willow shoots) and tissue. The lantern is similar to those used in lantern parades all over the world, and of course, Brighton’s own Burning the Clocks. The techniques learned can be…
I showed Europa at the Limbo exhibition at SEAS in Brighton’s BMECP centre, during the May 2019 Artists’ Open Houses. Here are a couple of photos (plus one of Europa being promenaded in Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens):
I’m showing in two venues for Artist Open Houses 2019, at YMCA Reed House, and SEAS Limbo. At YMCA Reed House, I’m showing two paintings entitled “Landscape: Summer 2017, Sussex” and “Landscape: Summer 2017, Nineveh” (both pictured below). Venue opening times etc: https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2019/ymca-downslink-group-4/ At SEAS Limbo exhibition, I am showing withy lantern sculpture “Europa” .…
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The Limbo exhibition will take place 4 May – 2 June 2019 at SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon). The show will include series of workshops, film screenings and artist talks by the exhibiting artists. It is part of Artists Open House, which takes place during Brighton…
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We are delighted that Spectre of the Real art exhibition has been reviewed by radio Euromernet – listen to the link here, in a radio show which also talks about Calais and includes some cool tunes! https://www.mixcloud.com/radioeuromernet/radio-euro-mernet-english-show-18-april-2019/
The Spectre of the Real is an exhibition of Social Art by a group of 23 artists, held in Brighton 13-21 April 2019 at SEAS Socially Engaged Art Salon. Five artists gave talks, video links are below. The first was given by Russell Honeyman, curator, to open the show. The talk concerns the Real, a…
For practitioners of Social Art there is an important assembly happening later in April, at Tate Exchange. It’s sold out, but I’m intending to get a report on the story for these pages. Here is transcript from the Tate website: Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:00 AM 6:00 PM Tate Modern London SE1 9TG (map) Google…
Award winning Brighton social artist Elizabeth Eade will give a talk, and show her prize winning work about migrant deaths, Die Liste, at the opening of The Spectre of the Real Exhibition, at Brighton’s BMECP Centre, 4pm, 13 April 2019. Elizabeth Eade’s artwork Die Liste is a 10m-long, hand written list documenting the names and…
The Spectre of the Real exhibition will take place 13-21 April 2019 at SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon), at the BMECP Centre near Brighton Train Station. The exhibition will include an opening reception and artist talks open to the public. (uploaded 15.03.19, revised 29.03 -details of Opening to the Public, 31.03 Artist List) The show…
Here is the essay I wrote in support of my MA Fine Art, in August 2018. It tries to describe art in the biggest sense, as a philosophy without words – a way of seeing and understanding the world in an intuitive way. The essay suggests that art practice might provide us with an alternative…
Jan 2019. Ouzai, a once neglected neighbourhood near Beirut, is being transformed by passionate painters. The project, named Ouzville, began when creator Ayyad Nasser and his team saw that too many areas of Lebanon had fallen into disrepair and crime since the end of the civil war. The idea was to bring the sense of…
From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire. By Greg Grandin Thu 28 Feb 2019 No myth in American history has been more powerful, more invoked by more presidents, than that of pioneers advancing across the frontier – a word…
