April 2024
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.
Sir PETER BLAKE RA, Sir HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, EMMA FREUD, RYAN GANDER RA, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, Lady PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES, DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT
Hopefully the weather will be good and we can be in the Lookout for our monthly lunch this coming Wednesday! If not we will be in the Arthouse
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 3rd April 1pm @ the Lookout
Please bring food and drink to share!
Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!
Love Caroline xx
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website
Caroline Wiseman Celebrates 35 years of Art Dealing
Join us Easter Saturday 30th March 11-4pm. At the Arthouse for celebratory drinks.
RSVP
Member Spotlight: Paul Spencer
Paul began his career in music as a drummer, playing with the likes of Scottish rock icon ALEX HARVEY and seminal new wave band MAGAZINE.
Several years producing music videos in the UK and US followed and found him working with artists like SADE, PETE TOWNSEND, THE KINKS, THE ROLLING STONES, U2, NIRVANA, and DAVID BOWIE whose video won the Grammy for best short form music film.
Later, he created the oral history film archive for the Experience Music Project in Seattle before returning to the UK to direct and produce documentaries on SOLOMON BURKE and BOBBY BLAND for the BBC.
In 2008, he founded the Maverick Festival, the first festival in the UK to focus on what was then alt.country and is now widely known as Americana.
Now in its seventeenth year, the festival has hosted many of the most acclaimed artists in the genre but is most recognised for its mission to discover and present new and emerging artists
Dates for Maverick this year are 5th 6th and 7th July
New Member Spotlight: Pippa Graber
Pippa Graber is a Suffolk and London based gallerist and art dealer.
She created her company ArtDog in 2000. She owns, runs and curates artdog gallery in southeast London. ArtDog participates in art fairs in London and internationally. The artists that exhibit are mainly women artists from the UK.
Her main emphasis is on contemporary abstract painting and photo-realism. Pippa also does free art outreach to local primary schools.
The gallery has regular exhibitions and music events.
Pippa has lived in southeast London since 1990 and lives part time in Easton, Suffolk.
Information on artists and events can be found at www.artdoglondon.co.uk
Member Spotlight: Ian Griffiths
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Ian trained in Fabric design and printing at Swansea College of Art. After a spell teaching art at secondary level in the Midlands he moved to East Anglia where he set up a studio designing and hand printing furnishing fabrics. This led to a career in Interior design creating and project managing hotel and restaurant interiors throughout Europe and Scandinavia.
A poet since a young age Ian's first collection “ Conversations With Birds” was published by Eye Wild Books. He became chairman of the Suffolk Poetry Society during its transition to charity status and held many National Poetry day events at the lookout as well as performing his work throughout the UK and overseas.
In 2017 he received an arts council grant to make a performance tour in New York State USA together with reading at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Long Island and has forged poetry connections overseas notably with the poet George Wallace. Together with his own work he gives illustrated talks throughout East Anglia on the work of his compatriot the poet Dylan Thomas Entitled “ Singing in My Chains”.
Ian considers himself a multi faceted artist in the widest sense pursuing his talents and involvement in the arts in whichever way it takes him as designer, sculptor, poet and performer. Currently he models for life drawing groups throughout the county as well as assisting his wife Carol Lawrence in the publication of poetry collections. A firm believer in the bringing together of the arts his current project is a fusion of his poem “Lines in the Sand” with dance and music.
Through membership of the lookout arts club he has been delighted to be part of the enormous creativity of the region and meet all manner fellow artists.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Gary Hunter invites us to
Jane Beaumont invites us to
Astra Taylor-Todd invites us to
Exhibition of pen drawings at The Bell Gallery in Bungay 9th April - 4th May
Private View Evening 11th April 5pm onwards
40 Earsham St, Bungay, NR35 1AQ
Carol Lawrence invites us to
Gay Rowland invites us to
Lucy Berridge runs Calligraphy workshops at Abbey Hall for more information www.lucyberridge.com/workshops
Mary Moser at Visionary Brit Museum
Here is another Arts Club collaboration - Caro Holford invites us to her exhibition at the Visionary Brit Museum, which is run by another Arts Club member Degard.
Mary Moser's Friends On Tour
at Visionary Brit Museum
Open daily, Monday to Sunday 10 - 5 pm
9 March till 10 May 2024
Address: O/S British Museum, Gt Russell St,
London WC1B 3DA
Britten Pears Arts
See the fascinating exhibition programme for the Spring and Summer at Snape Maltings, which starts with Beryl and Pam featuring Anna Ilsley and Hannah Lees
For more information
https://brittenpearsarts.org/exhibitions/beryl-pam-anna-ilsley-hannah-lees
Monica Petzal invites us to
CREATION ART TALKS 2024
THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF ART
by Dr John-Paul Stonard
The first in a series of eight weekly lectures
at the printroom studio
April 10th, 7pm for 7.30 pm
For tickets to individual lectures click here
For a season ticket click here
The Creation Art Talks 2024 offer a captivating voyage through the history of art, reaching back to the earliest images made by our ancestors, tracing the story through to the present day.
Caroline Mackintosh invites us to
INK!
Book tickets for the upcoming
The INK Festival, The Cut, Halesworth Suffolk 11-14th April 2024
INK presents an exciting four days of live performance
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.com