At a time when there appears to be plenty of it around, Chris Bell of the Zoom Arts group has dedicated his latest exhibition – Beauty and Beastyness – to the depiction of the ugly side of human behaviour. He explained his thinking to Nick Terdre.
James Roseveare is in the woods where he is possibly happiest, amongst the trees he loves. As a tree surgeon his work is to sculpt and shape trees to keep them healthy, so it is completely logical that he was always going to work as an artist with and within the natural world. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to find James Roseveare’s new sculptures in a wooded glade in Springfield Wood near Robertsbridge as part of blackShed’s exhibition Site number: 102222.
Fiona Denning recently opened her studio to the public for Coastal Currents, the popular Hastings area September Festival . She, and her fellow artists in the St Leonards studio house, were hosts over two weekends to over three hundred and fifty curious art visitors. Now she has a show at Hastings Arts Forum, HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to see it.
Hastings Contemporary opened 10 years ago on the Stade, right next to the beach that hosts Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet and where fishermen have been launching and landing their boats for over 1,000 years. It seems apt, therefore, to celebrate those 10 years with the exhibition Seafaring. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was delighted to explore.
There’s a Pre-Raphaelite exhibition next Saturday (26 March) in St Clement’s church in Hastings Old Town. Bernard McGinley reports.
Stains and Traces has taken a regular appearance in the HAF calendar in memory of Ian Welsh, a former Chair and champion of the Arts Forum who sadly died a few years ago, who has left this powerful exhibition theme as his legacy. Under the invited co-curatorship of artists Carly Ralph and Mary Morris – alongside selected artists Denise Jones, Annabel Faraday and Debbie Lyddon – HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was eager to see how they had interpreted the theme.
In addition to the photography exhibitions reported elsewhere, two new art shows are under way courtesy of Zoom Arts and Zuzishii Art Laboratory.
John Holroyd is marking his membership of Zoom Arts with an exhibition of ink work at Oscar’s on the Square starting on Friday. Maxine Simmonds introduces this new member of the community arts group.
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