The dust has settled since my last show in March and now I'm looking towards the summer and my next exhibitions.
I'm continuing my run of group shows with a show at the Cake Room, Hastings in June. The Private view will be on Friday 14th June 6-8 PM.
14 artists and the show is titled Swap Shop, we have been paired with another artist and we have to take inspiration from their work for a piece of our work. I will have more information in my next newsletter.
My next show after that is in July at Electro Landing Gallery, Seaside Rd, St Leonards on the 12th,13th and 14th. The group exhibition is titled; 'Now that you're here'. The Private View will be on the 12th from 6 -9 pm. I'm looking forward to showing for the 2nd time with Wolfgang Dubieniec and three other friends, Flora Storm, Joe Murphy and Jude Montague. More details will follow in the next newsletter and there are more details on my Events page.
I have another two group shows later in the year on the weekend of November 15th-17th. The Private view will be on Friday 15th of November from 6-9 pm both at the Electro where we have both galleries. December will be part two of all of the fair of the unfair, the weekend of 6th-8th. The Private view is on Friday 6th of December 6-9 pm, more details to follow in the coming months.
Recently I went to the Frank Auerbach exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in London and was completely blown away. The exhibition is made up of his charcoal drawings made in the 1950s and 60's and it's the first time they have all been shown together. What I particularly love about the charcoal drawings are the depth and layering of the charcoal. Also, I hadn't realised that he cut up his drawings so much and put pieces from other pieces of his drawings onto different drawings that give them so much depth. They are also shown with some of his paintings again of his sitters. The exhibition is on until the end of May, I recommend a visit and the Coultauld is a great gallery space set in the grounds of Somerset House.
Finally, a mention to Jude Montague and her upcoming project spirit of Invention Festival to celebrate the inventor John Logie Baird who at one point Lived and worked in Hastings and came up with the idea for the television walking on the cliffs looking over Hastings. The exhibition is at Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards from 7-13 May. Artists will contribute their visualised ideas which will include sculpture and painting alongside more unconventional gallery pieces, I hope to take part in the exhibition and hopefully see you there.