Dates for your diary….
Sun 4 Jul. 2 pm. Selina di Girolamo talks about her exhibition, followed by a documentary film featuring her work.
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). Arrive at 7 and meet other film enthusiasts. Synopsis below.
Thu 8 Jul. Hastings Humanists meet in AF1 at 6.30 for 7 pm. Talk on ”Humanist Weddings”.
Fri 9 Jul. PV – Alice Pickering in AF1
Tue 13 Jul. Forum AGM at 6.30 for 7 (prompt) start. You need to be a paid-up member to attend.
Fri 16 Jul. PV for “Pros and Cons” (Bob Farquhar) in AF 1 at 6.30 -8.30. “Pros and Cons” will be officially opened by the Mayor, Councillor Kim Forward at 7.30. For a preview of this exhibition – see Observer (London) by Robert Chessyre, Sun 27 June pp 20 and 21 or Click on the following
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/27/prison-painter-rediscovered-exhibition
Sat 17 Jul. Gallery Talk in AF1 at 2.30. Rod Harman talks to Bob Farquhar.
Fri 23 Jul. PV for Zoom in AF2 at 6.30 – 8.30.
Sat 24 Jul. A group of Forum members organized by Nick Weekes, want to make their own statement (largely musical ) against a background of Bob Farquhar’s exhibition “Pros and Cons” in AF 1. Timings and further detail next week.
Mon 16 – 20 Aug. Week-long course of music activity for children in August — see below under ‘Music’
Stop Press…
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 of ten per cent of the paid-up membership in order to hold a valid AGM. As of today that is 51 from a membership of 504.
Below is a list of candidates for the committee with statements.
Nominations for the Executive Committee
- 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 - 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 ??
***JERWOOD BURSARIES. Three selected artists will each receive a bursary of £10,000 and a six-month period of critical and professional development support from mentors prior to a touring exhibition of the UK in 2011. See advertisement below. Apply before 24 September. Hastings has talent!!! —- plenty of talent!!!.
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.
Showing Now…
Selina di Girolamo. “Drawing down the Moon”. AF1 30 Jun – 7 Jul.
Nature based work made in Sussex by Selina di Girolamo (RSBA).
Paintings, drawings and Godesses. Also …..
**Artist’s Talk – Sunday 4 July at 2 pm followed by screening “Drawing in the Landscape” – a documentary film about Selina’s work – directed by Peter Lown and Eifion Jones – a Wish Tree Production.
See also http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/selina-di-girolamo/
Dorothea Huntrods and Wendy Oxlade in AF2. 30 Jun – 14 Jul .PV 2 July.
Wendy and Dorothea are exhibiting a collection of new paintings for this show. A show to be proud of !! See http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/dorothea-huntrods-and-wendy-oxlade/#more-2182
Forum at the Azur (AF3). Brij Sharma, Chris Thomas, Jeremy Ebdon, John Plummer and Katherine Reekie. Also Mike Williams wood sculpture on the terrace balcony.
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…
Alice Pickering in AF1, 7 – 14 Jul. PV 9 July.
“I aim to create unusual, vivid and celebratory work in paint and mixed media. ….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” 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. See image below. Bob is a Forum member now living in Sussex.
See http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/artists/gallery/Bob+Farquhar/
The Mayor of Hastings has kindly agreed to open Bob’s exhibition at the Private view on Friday, 16 July. The Koestler Trust (rehabilitation of prisoners) has given a generous donation for the staging of this exhibition.
An excellent preview of this exhibition was given in the (Sunday) “Observer” 26 June, by Robert Chessyre. see on-line edition at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/27/prison-painter-rediscovered-exhibition
Zoom. (the painters’ section of Zoom) in AF2, 14 – 28 Jul. Detail next week.
Members’ Announcements…
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
Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton and now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available. Tel: 01273 275955.
Anna Casson posts : I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103
Marylyn Edwards posts details of her 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”, Nabokov’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. http://www.stleonardsfilmsoc.co.uk/
Sun, 04 Jul – ’Beyond The Pole’ (15) UK 2010 + Q&A with director, David L. Williams via Skype.
‘BEYOND THE POLE’ is Touching the Void with laughs, and Withnail and I on ice. Funny and subversive it’s the story of two men trying to find their place in the world before the end of the world. And it asks one question of us all: how far would you go to save the planet?
SYNOPSIS
Brian (Rhys Thomas) and Mark (Stephen Mangan) are setting out on the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, and Organic expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. As a world first they have high hopes of getting into the Guinness Book of Records and, if all goes well, of saving the planet from Global Warming.
Unfortunately they have never done anything like this before. And they hadn’t reckoned on the polar bears, the cocky gay Norwegians, or on Mark’s rapidly loosening grip on reality.
No one said saving the planet was easy, but does it have to be this hard?
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
FELLOWSHIPS 2010 CALL FOR ENTRIES
A new initiative from Jerwood Visual Arts.
UK based painters are invited to apply for three new Jerwood
Painting Fellowships, to be awarded to outstanding artists
in the first five years of their professional practice.
Three selected artists will each receive a bursary of £10,000 and a six-month period of critical and professional development support from mentors.
During that time each artist will be expected to work toward a
body of new work. In April 2011, an exhibition of this new work
will take place at Jerwood Space, London before touring,
as part of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme. Closing date: 24 September 2010
For further information and to apply please visit www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
For all enquiries please contact Parker Harris:
T. 01372 462190 E. jpf@parkerharris.co.uk
