Dates for your diary….
Sat 26 Jun. PV for Sue Jones @ 2 – 4.30. **Note date and timings.
Sat 26 and 27 Jun. “Freekender” in “The Rooms”. A two day exploration of experimental electronic music and exotica. See members’ notices.
Sun 27 Jun. 2 pm. Gallery Talk. 20 minute presentation by Max Lovenheim Irwin on his exhibition.
Thu 1 Jul. Film in AF1. ‘An Education’ (12A) UK 2009.
Fri 2 Jul. PV for Selina di Girolamo’s “Drawing down the Moon” in AF1
PV for Dorothea Huntrods and Wendy Oxlade in AF2.
Sun 4 Jul. 7 for 7.45. Film “Beyond the Pole” and a Q and A session with Film director David Williams by Skype (see Film notices)
Fri 9 Jul. PV – Alice Pickering in AF1
Tue 13 Jul. Forum AGM at 6.30 for 7(prompt) start.
Mon 16 – 20 Aug. Week-long course of music activity for children in August — see below under ‘Music’
Stop Press…
Poetry Group. The Poetry Group will next meet on Saturday, 10 July in AF2 at 5 pm (and not the first Saturday of July). Several members have expressed a wish to see the Wimbledon tennis finals on 3 July.
Film Club Q and A session. The SLOS Film Club has a Q and A session with David L Williams , Director of “Beyond the Pole” on 4 Jul using Skype.
AGM, Tuesday 13 July 2010 in the Azur (downstairs) at 6.30 for 7 prompt. The list of nominations for the thirteen places appears below and nominees will be invited to introduce themselves at the AGM. As of today’s date we have no nomination for Secretary and Treasurer to be elected from the list below. Other posts, eg, Arts Committee, are decided in committee.
Please make every effort to attend. We need a quorum (as of today) of 50 members to attend in order to hold a valid AGM.
Nominations
• Griselda Bear. Griselda’s working career includes employment with several nationally important organizations including the Arts Council, the Royal Academy, Sadlers Wells Trust and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with an emphasis on fund-raising. Most recently she has been working with the Crafts Council and the Craft Potters Association.
• Jeremy Bear – Jeremy has had a career in film and television, Career highlights include Head of Design for Yorkshire Television and from 1989 as an Independent Television and Film Production Designer. Since graduating from Brighton College of art, Jeremy has maintained an active role in painting, mainly acrylics on canvas and paper
• John Hacker – I studied at Kingston College, followed by three years at the Royal College of Art. I have taught at Kingston, Hornsey and Epsom. I am a practicing artist and since 1993 have worked in Sardinia and Sussex.
• Rosie Harness – “I’m interested in all branches of the Arts, am an Invigilating Volunteer, have been a committee member for over 18 months and wish to to continue supporting Hastings Arts Forum in this way.”
• Dorothea Huntrods - ‘Ever since I was a young art student, I have painted at most stages of my career. I’ve combined this with teaching Art and Crafts and working in arts publishing. I feel sure my creative background would be useful on the Exhibition Committee
• Patrick Glass -’ I am interested in all the Arts. I sponsored a family exhibition in HAF in 2009. I have published on Melanesian Art. I have served on the committee with a particular interest in promoting film.’
• Harry Lyons – Chairman – “. My arts background is with the decorative arts and I have written a book on Christopher dresser and contributed to the V &A Centennial exhibition. Iwish to support the Forum in its work.”
• Alice Maylam - Treasurer. I have bee involved with the Forum since 2007 and most recently as Treaurer. I am an active artist and I support the work of the Forum.
• Wendy Oxlade – “Creativity is at the centre of my universe, Rod H and I commissioned many good exhibitions at the Forum.”
• John Plummer – I have been an active member of the Forum since 2006 and have kept the accounts for exhibiting artists. I am also an active artist and want to support the work of the Forum..
• Annie Rae – “I am a professional Illustrator and a member of the Arts Committee. I support the work of the Forum.”
• Harry Snook – I have had an active career in the Arts, notably in Birmingham where I was Chairman of the Birmingham Artists’ Group and Chairman of the Council of Management for the Ikon Gallery. I have been actively involved with the West Midlands Arts.
• Kim Thrower - ‘I am a working artist who has had galleries in London and the Dordogne. I have also curated a number of other shows.’
• Renee Thrower – “ I have been a commercial photographer, Communication Manager of a number of not for profit organizations and currently surviving with a ‘day job’ in the public sector. I think the arts will need an informed voice.”
• Bruce Williams – “My full time job is as a driving instructor, but I have been inspired by painting since the age of five and I am a regular exhibitor with the Forum.”
• Nick Weekes –“I am a professional web designer, sympathetic to the arts. I built the Forum website, which I maintain with a group of volunteers”
AGENDA – AGM Tuesday, July 13th 2010
1.Welcome
2.Apologies
3.Minutes of Last AGM
4.Report on becoming a Charity -
5.Committee’s Accounts – Alice Maylam, Treasurer and motion to approve the accounts.
6.Committee’s Report – Harry Lyons, Chairman
7.Elections – Chaired by an independent Chair.
• Introduction of Nominees
• Voting and counting of Votes
• Announcement of elected committee
8. Statement for the future – New Chairman.
Discussion during the counting of votes.
We ask members to give some thought as to what sort of Forum they want and contribute to the debate on “Statement for the Future”.
So far the committee has adopted an inclusive approach giving opportunities to all levels of expertise to exhibit. Exhibitions such as Members’ shows, Jack-in-the-green and Volunteers’ shows allow all members to show their skill. Those who can show a degree of excellence to our arts committee can exhibit through the medium of their own exhibition.
The Forum is a not-for-profit body, but it has a responsibility to remain solvent and commercially aware. A policy of hosting successful exhibitions gives the Forum the ability to host exhibitions that may not be profitable but educational – and thereby raising the level of art excellence, innovation and art appreciation among members as well as reaching out to the wider community.
One such suggestion for the future by Annie Rae, is to have a show curated by a print specialist covering all the various forms of print-making and using the undoubted skills of our many members – many with an international reputation in this art form. Taking the idea of a printmakers’ show further, there may be other areas such as photography, where we have a wide skill base, which will be highlighted as we host various parts of the International Photographic Festival at Brighton in October and November. Here is a challenge for the photographers to exchange ideas and push forward the boundaries.
Members may see other areas for this approach – glassmakers, sculptors, ceramicists ??
Showing Now…
Max Lovenheim Irwin in AF1, 23 – 30 Jun.
It is always interesting to see the work of artists who try to extend the boundaries of their chosen discipline. When first asked to explain his work, Max referred to “mathematics” and “patterns”, but as conversation developed it was apparent that he was exploring new forms. Max has a busy professional life in Computers, but finds relaxation in his art.
Max says : “My art is like looking at nature through a different set of eyes and being able to see the World in a different state. Imagine looking at a piece of moss on a rock and then imagine the view of a forest seen through an aeroplane window and compare both images.” – or using an example from his exhibition “Look at a shell on the beach and then compare it with the Milky Way.”
Max’s work is largely acrylics with some images in mixed media. He will also be showing a video throughout Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 June and at 2 pm on Sunday he will give a gallery talk explaining his work.
Sue Jones in AF2. 23 – 30 Jun.
Click on http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/sue-jones/#more-2114
Forum at the Azur (AF3). Brij Sharma, Chris Thomas, Jeremy Ebdon, John Plummer and Katherine Reekie.
Katherine Reekie in ONE sandwich bar at No1, London Road (AF4. )
Eight pieces from her show “Art on the Beach” at AF1, 26 May-8 Jun
Coming up…
Selina di Girolamo. “Drawing down the Moon”. AF1 30 Jun – 7 Jul.
Dorothea Huntrods and Wendy Oxlade in AF2. 30 Jun – 14 Jul .PV 2 July.
Wendy and Dorothea have both been working on new paintings for this show.
Artist Statement – Dorothea Huntrods
As a young art student, I started painting in the traditional way using oils on canvas and board – an exercise I still enjoy immensely. I like the immediacy of painting, the mixing and layering of colour, texture on texture. I’m very much a colour person, and am strongly aware of their energies and vibrations – of the effect of one colour has on another – so that the slightest change may dramatically affect the sense of place and atmosphere.
After recently experimenting with collagraphy where I chose to use smallish, A4 size plates, ~I am now exploring painting again but on a larger scale. I’m using acrylics, collage and other mixed media on heavy watercolour paper. The paper itself produces wonderful textures. Working from light to dark, I may apply several layers of colour and sometimes collage (paper, fabric etc) to give the painting greater depth of form and colour.
The two subjects which inspire me a lot are landscape and figurative and may be drawn completely from imagination and memory.
Artist Statement – Wendy Oxlade
My first creative work, aged six, was a poem about flowers playing in the spring sunshine,reflecting an aspect of my childhood, playing with my cousins in our garden, as a kind of utopia. Some of my new painting/ drawings reflect the same sheer delight with the world, as “all that jazz”,and”musical riff”………
By contrast a visit to north Wales last year has funded some landscapes/abstracts preoccupied with the slate quarries of Blanaeu Ffestiniog and the notion of beauty in ugliness or the transfoming powers of art.Continuing this quest, two paintings one of a figure, the other a portrait of K, use the genre of stained glass, its pure colour and composition to create “modern icons”, with homage to the south west trancept of Canterbury Cathedral.
My influences are far and wide, and as a graduate of Camberwell Art School, the Auerbach/Bomberg lineage versus Uglow/ Coldsteam/Sickert lineage created the lively dialogue and debate that inspires art students to develope their own expression.
This show is not to be missed, with my fellow artist Dorothea Huntrods creating the other half of the artistic debate.
Alice Pickering in AF1, 7 – 14 Jul. PV 9 July.
“I aim to create unusual, vivid and celebratory work in paint and mixed media.
The work can be completely abstract, semi-abstract, representational or figurative and may contain surreal or mystical elements. Recent work has focussed on landscapes, which draw one in with their detail and unexpected features, with a theme of a spiritual quest or journeying….
…. I use paint in conjunction with a variety of partly recycled media, creating my own new images from an amalgam of
sections from paintings that I decide to recycle, scraps of fabric, small pieces of photographs I have taken, natural objects, and cuttings from printed images. (And the odd sequin or splash of glitter can find its way in!) “
Bob Farquhar, “Pros and Cons” (Prison Art) in AF1 14 – 28 Jul.
Bob has spent some 32 years in prison, where he learnt to paint with Christine Berg, a former pupil of Kokoschka. During his ‘time’ Bob managed to stay ‘on the run’ for two years and was looked after by the King’s Cross girls. Bob is now living in Hastings.
The Mayor of Hastings has kindly agreed to open Bob’s exhibition at the Private view on Friday, 16 July. The Koestler Trust has given a generous donation to the staging of this exhibition
Zoom. (the painters’ section of Zoom) in AF2, 14 – 28 Jul.
Members’ Announcements…
Freekender. Nick Weekes posts cutting edge stuff !!
Two day exploration of electronic and exotic sights and sounds in “The Rooms”, 35,Western Road, SLOS, on Saturday 26 June (4 – 11pm) and Sunday 27 June (2 – 9 pm). See also www.theroomscafe.co.uk
Full cast of experimenters, including Ted Versicolor, Warrior Squares, Unicorn Dad vrs Robot Dad, Deep Kiss 720 and many others. Original creative work can be expected.
Collectors’ Corner (Polly Gifford posts).
Do you have an unusual collection? This summer at the De La Warr Pavilion we’d like to invite people to bring their weird and wonderful collections into the gallery. Connecting to our summer exhibition by the artist Tomoko Takahashi, we’re having a Collectors’ Corner each Sunday at 2.30pm starting on 4 July, giving collectors the opportunity to share their interests with the public.
Whether its snow globes or kaleidoscopes, toy soldiers or thimbles, get in touch if you collect something you’d like to share.
Contact Polly Gifford on 01424 229133 or polly.gifford@dlwp.com.
Sophie du Main posts. Industrial Workshop Storage Unit To Let. Central St Leonards. Reasonable Rent. Dry, well lit working area with ample power plugs. Suit Artist, Potter or Sculptor.
To View Contact: Mob No: 07845 149 614
Serena Thirkell is exhibiting her re-cycled tools in Seaford on Sat 26 and Sunday 27 Jun. Also on Sat 3 and Sun 4 July. Turn up for tea and cake at 4, Marine Drive, Bishopstone, SEAFORD, BN25 2RS/ . Fabulous Garden.
Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton and now an experienced artists’ and hairdressers’ model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available. Tel: 01273 275955.
Anna Casson posts : I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103
Marilyn Edwards posts details of her forthcoming show at the Dragon Bar.
Exhibition of prints on paper and textiles at the Dragon Bar, 71,George St
7 – 20 July.
A contemporary interpretation of the visual and literal narrative in Hogarth’s “ A Harlot’s Tale”, Nabolov’s “Lolita”and the Biblical prophesy “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”.
FILM
St Leonards Film Society. Future Screenings.( All in AF1 @7.30) Note the Q and A session with the Director, David Williams, on Sunday 4 Jul on SKYPE.
A new schedule of films for June and July is published on the St Leonards film Soc website. http://www.stleonardsfilmsoc.co.uk/ Film evenings will be suspended in August and recommence in September. In September, the Film Society hopes to extend its outreach, with additional venues in St Leonards.
Thu, 01 Jul - ‘An Education’ (12A) UK 2009.
Sun, 04 Jul - ‘Beyond The Pole’ (15) UK 2010 + Q&A with director, David L. Williams via Skype.
Thu, 15 Jul - ‘Micmacs’/'Micmacs à tire-larigot’ (12A) France 2009.
Sun, 18 Jul - ‘Erasing David’ (12A) UK 2010 + Q&A with director, David Bond and Phil Booth (NO2ID).
Thu, 29 Jul - ‘A Single Man’ (12A) UK 2009
MUSIC
Nancy Cooley posts. Calling all parents – –Hastings has a new summer holiday music course for children!
A new creative music course for children kicks off with a summer holiday course this August in the Reading Room, 12 Claremont in Hastings town centre.
Running from August 16th to 20th, ‘Magical Music Mornings’ is a week- long course full of singing, stories, movement, listening and instruments. There’s an hour each morning for 6-7yrs and for 8-9yrs in groups of between 12 and 15 children, and the sessions are designed imaginatively to encourage children to be creative and playful with music.
In September ongoing classes begin which will running throughout the year in term-time for the same age children, every Wednesday after school.
And there are introductory workshops on two Wednesdays mornings, August 11th and September 1st.
The courses are led by Nancy Cooley, local musician, an experienced classical performer, choir and workshop-leader and teacher.
For booking, prices and much more information please visit her website,
www.enchantedlark.co.uk
or you can email her on info@enchantedlark.co.uk
Wendy and Dorothea have both been working on new paintings for this show.
