The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach goes from strength to strength. Our 340 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk.

MEMBERS’ BULLETIN

This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website. New works of art for sale, books, and tickets for events can be viewed on the online shop.

Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!

See you all,

Caroline x

MELISSA PIERCE MURRAY PRESENTS TIPPING POINT

Day 1 of Melissa Pierce Murray’s sculptural takeover of the Lookout

Melissa Pierce Murray Presents Tipping Point

Melissa Pierce Murray presents Tipping Point, a dynamic sculptural takeover of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout. Murray will animate the tower and beach through the use of an oversize sculpture kit of seemingly static sculptural forms. Inky structural spikes, sensual stoney tangles, and painted abstract masses will come to life in an awkward, exhilarating exploration of the Lookout Tower, spilling out of the doors and on to the beach.

I would love all members of the Arts Club to join us tomorrow evening from 5pm - 7pm to meet Melissa Pierce Murray, who will be talking about her dynamic sculptural takeover of the Lookout this weekend. Food and drink will be served.

Opening Party this Saturday 1st April, 12pm - 2pm drinks | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

Open Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd April, 11am - 4pm | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

James and Paul as Gilbert and George at our Jubilee party last June

Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 5th April | 1pm

Our hosts this moth are Paul Motion and James Lockhart. We thank them for hosting the lunch this month in their fascinating home/studio in Leiston. As usual, please bring food and drink to share. Let me know if you would like to come and I will email you their address.

LOOKOUT COOKOUT LAUNCH

Lookout Cookout Launch Party, Saturday 8th April

The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout launches its artists’ cookbook, LOOKOUT COOKOUT, this Easter.

Suffolk artist Roger Hardy cooks his recipe, Freud Eggs and Bacon, for us to taste. His recipe includes two eggs which he models on the front cover of the book. A small exhibition of works by Roger Hardy, tastings and book signings will continue over the long Easter weekend. There will also be a live auction on LOOKOUT COOKOUT launch day, Easter Saturday 8th April. All welcome!

Saturday 8th April | 12 noon - 4pm | Food and drink will be served

Over the spring and summer there will be more tastings with a different contributor preparing their recipe for us each weekend to enjoy in the Lookout. Alongside will be an exhibition of their art works with LOOKOUT COOKOUT for sale. Full schedule of artists and dates coming soon!

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LOOKOUT COOKOUT is published by Lookout Editions, £25 hardback 128 pages in full colour. Each of the contributors has donated a work which is being auctioned to contribute to publishing costs. Click here to see online auction of for more information contact Caroline at caroline@carolinewiseman.com

Tasting sponsored by Suffolk Coastal Estate Agents

NEW MEMBER: JAMES LOCKHART

James Lockhart

James is a landscape artist and portrait painter. He has no studio always painting on site. As Trevor Felsey writes: with James you know the artist was there. Two years ago he moved from London to Suffolk where he quickly had a solo exhibition at the Ballroom Arts. This year he will paint locally and in Spain.

James was born in Oban, Scotland. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, in London where he was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship. His main influences were his tutors: Patrick Simons RA, and the acclaimed Trevor Felsey, who remains a friend and influence to this day. On leaving the Byam Shaw the Royal Academy invited him to be part of a Young British Contemporaries exhibition.

For many years, after completing an interior design degree, James made a successful living with clients such as: BP, the Chairman of OPEC and the celebrity Katie Price. He also worked as an illustrator for Oxford and Cambridge press. Margaret Thatcher engaged James to organise the exhibition for 400th Anniversary of the Royal Mint at Somerset House.

He has shown widely throughout the UK, NZ and Spain. Recently James was artist of the month on the international website virtual.tart.co.nz.

MEMBERS’ NEWS

Emily Richardson and Jonathan P. Watts present Immaterial Terrain

A film and podcast series about the stretch of Suffolk coast around the Sizewell nuclear power station for some time now. Emily would like to invite you to a special opening event on Saturday 1st April from 6pm - 8pm where the film will be shown for the first time and other elements of the project will be exhibited.

This is a free event but please book here as numbers are limited: https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/private-view-immaterial-terrain

Showing at Britten Pears Arts, Snape Maltings from Sunday 2nd April - Sunday 23rd April.

Jane Beaumont, The Hope Exhibition

Mixed media artist Jane Beaumont will be exhibiting her work in the Courtyard Gallery at Ballroom Arts. Jane is an artist with a special interest in the medium of collage, which conjures an image of her journey through life – a mosaic of experiences that have challenged and shaped who she is today.

Wednesday 5th April - Tuesday 11th April | 10am - 8pm | Courtyard Gallery 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Suffolk Poetry Society

Get ready for the ninth festival of Suffolk Poetry, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th May 2023. On Friday 12th May you can join virtual workshop with Jo Bell and Caroline Gay Way. On Saturday 13th May, the Festival comes to life at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Stowmarket. Click here for the latest version of the programme!

Degard, The Visionary Wall

Be one of the privileged few to witness the brilliance of visionary artist Degard in an exclusive private view of her latest exhibition at the Visionary Brit Museum on 9th April. Through her masterful use of paint and her otherworldly ability to see auras, 'The Visionary Wall: Meeting my Ancestors Lost in The Holocaust' delves into the powerful symbolism and historical context of the Wailing Wall while bringing to life those who were lost during the Holocaust through painting their unique auras.

The show will be available for general viewing from 7th April, but ticketholders to this event will have the rare opportunity to hear from the artist herself as she shares stories and offers talks about her work. Get your tickets now for the private viewing on 9th April, 2pm - 4pm at The Visionary British Museum.

Aldeburgh Cinema Trust

Fashion Reimagined

Trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney is on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and transform the way we engage with fashion.

Fashion designer Amy Powney of cult label Mother of Pearl is a rising star in the London fashion scene. Raised off-the-grid in rural England by activist parents, Amy has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, and transform her entire business. Over the following three years, her own personal revolution becomes the precursor of a much bigger, societal change.

The film plays at Aldeburgh Cinema at the following dates & times:

Saturday 8th April 15:00

Tuesday 11th April 19:30

Bookings: https://www.fashionreimaginedfilm.com/

Exhibition on Screen: Vermeer

In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance.

This new Exhibition on Screen film invites audiences to a private view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

The film plays at Aldeburgh Cinema, Sunday 23 Apr 2023, 14:00.

Bookings: https://bit.ly/40kgqGw

INK FESTIVAL 2023

Four days of INK FESTIVAL 2023 with 50 short new plays, performed across 8 venues in Halesworth, including The Cut.

April 13th - 16th | Sunday Funday on 16th April | Halesworth

Tickets from £20 on sale now.

Herber & Co.

Over the past year I have moved my working practice outdoors and many of you are familiar with the Woodlanding Site we have created at the Farm where the workshops now take place. After a much needed pause for breath it feels timely to begin once again in preparing this very special place to extend its enchantment to those who find themselves drawn by the need to be in the woods, to be foraging the herbs and trees, to be immersed in activity, and to be with the land.

We are delighted to invite you to take a look at the flyer above for the first of our upcoming events, and also the Events listing for 2023.

All workshops are now available to book online via the website!

Mat Collishaw, All Things Fall at The Bomb Factory Foundation

A robotic Stag slips and falls in response to abusive posts on Twitter.
Night vision images of animal predators and prey appear as ghost-like spectres in paintings on raw linen. Animatronic pigeons re-enact the behavioural psychology experiments of B.F. Skinner. A temple featuring the Massacre of the Innocents erupts into an orgy of violence. These artworks all feature in Mat Collishaw's up and coming exhibition All Things Fall. The selected works reflect on human perception distorted through the dark, manipulative lens of social media. Find out more here!

Public Preview Thursday 20th April 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition continues 21st April - 21st May | Thursday and Friday 12 - 7pm | Saturday and Sunday 10am - 6pm

Nadia Lasserson, Lunchtime Classical Concert Series

The highly successful lunchtime classical concert series in aid fo Save the Children continues into April, with the next concert on Friday 21st April at the Aldeburgh Parish Church. All welcome!

Sula Rubens, KIND

Sula Rubens' solo exhibition KIND opens on 22nd April at Mandells Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich (22 April - 20 May). The private view takes place 12- 3pm on Saturday 22nd April. Sula has been collaborating with poet Sue Wallace-Shaddad and their joint publication ' Sleeping Under Clouds' (Clayhanger Press) will be for sale at the exhibition. Sula and Sue will do a talk about their collaboration, with a reading by Sue, at Mandells Gallery on Saturday 29th April 2pm - 3pm . All welcome! The book will also be available to order from Clayhanger Press's website.

Book Arts Day

Explore the diverse and beautiful world of artists who use the handmade book creatively. Buy unique or limited edition works from the artists who make them. Find out more here!

Saturday 22nd April | 11am - 3pm | Kentish Town

Perienne Christian’s Creativity Cafe

The creativity is starting again! This is a monthly community and accountability session for creatives. Five sessions (from 29th March - 19th July) suitable for all abilities, £150.

To find out more about the creativity cafe, check out the link on Perienne’s website.

Wednesday evenings | 6pm - 9:15pm | Zoom image gallery

AirArtwork, Astra Taylor-Todd

Artists working for Artists. AirArtwork is a new and innovative company created to help artists exhibit their work for sale in the abundance of holiday lets and premises in East Anglia.

Our mission is to give artists an opportunity to show their work on a constant rotating basis, from premises to premises, utilising spaces otherwise overlooked. Holiday homes, restaurants, lobbies and hotels are where our Artists will get their work seen by more people and sell to clients that ordinarily will not discover their creations.
Curated and centrally managed through AirArtwork, Artists will get a higher percentage of the sale price than any gallery. The premises will also earn from every sale along with having an expert service without a fee.

If you are an artist or a premises owner interested in knowing more about AirArtwork, get in touch with Astra atinfo@airartwork.com or head to the website to find out more.

The George Farnham Gallery for Hire

Starting in April and periodically throughout the year, the Gallery in Saxmundham will now be available for artists and creatives to hire either individually or as part of a group. Minimum hire would be for one week, with reduced hire rates for subsequent weeks.

In the first instance, further details can be found on our website (link below) and initial enquiries should be directed to Michael on 07703 775261 or by email at contact@thegeorgefarnhamgallery.uk

Art Gallery for Hire | Suffolk | The George Farnham Gallery | Saxmundham

SUBMITTING A NOTICE

Don't forget to send me an image of yourself and a paragraph about you for the ARTS CLUB MEMBERS page of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout website. The easiest way to submit a notice is to send it to caroline@carolinewiseman.co

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