THE ARTS CLUB ALDEBURGH BEACH MERGES ELEMENTS OF THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB AND GERTRUDE STEIN’S ART SALON. OUR 280 OR SO MEMBERS ARE AMONGST THE MOST EXCITING AND INFLUENTIAL ARTS PEOPLE IN SUFFOLK

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

Wednesday 2nd March, 1pm @ the Lookout

We were 17 at last month's lunch, with lots of exciting new members, many of whom are young artists from London who have come to live around Suffolk. It was a wonderful bonding occasion when we hatched all sorts of plans for an exciting arts year.

No charge but please bring food and drink to share.

The monthly Arts Club lunch is always on the first Wednesday in the month, so please diarise. It is often in the Lookout or sometimes in a member's house or studio. Please let me know if you would like to host a lunch - everyone brings food and drink to share! It's a good way for us all to visit members' studios and view their work.

MAD MONDAYS: MAKING ART DAYS

Monday 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th March

The artist, Vicky West, will start off leading our MAD MONDAYS and will guide us in shape, colour, form as well as technique. These basics are essential guidance whether you are a beginner or an accomplished artist. Join in the tuition or make art on your own if you prefer.

Artists are invited to make art all day from 11 - 3pm.

Every Monday throughout the year.

Only £10 for members for the whole day (£20 for non-members)

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Please feel free to use the top, middle and bottom of the Lookout to create. There is also a table on the beach for those sunny days. We can also use the Art Room in the Art House when I am around.

You are invited to come and make whatever art you would like. Sometime there will be tuition, or we will concentrate on a particular art form. Please bring your own materials and enjoy being enveloped in your own private space or be sociable, with the companionship of other artists. Those who have come to 10 or more MAD Mondays during the year will be invited to participate for free in an end-of-year exhibition in the Lookout,

£10 all day for members of the Art Club

£20 all day for non-members.

NOROOZ MARCH EVENING

Sunday 20th March

14:30 - 16:30 pm

We will be celebrating the Spring Equinox at the Lookout Tower on Sunday 20th March. The precise time for the vernal equinox will be at 15:33, which we shall celebrate in the traditional Iranian style as part of out ‘East meets East’ series of events. This will be a displace of items as listed below, symbolising rebirth, love, peace, beauty, gratitude, enlightenment and more.

Items that start with Persian letter ‘S’:

Sabzeh: sprouting / grass: the symbol of rebirth and growth
Samanu: fermented wheat cooked as sweet desert: the symbol of power and strength
Senjed: elaeagnus angustifolia: the symbol of love
Somaq: the symbol of sunrise
Serkeh: vinegar: the symbol of patience
Seeb: apple: the symbol of beauty
Seer: garlic: the symbol of health and medicine

The afternoon will comprise of reading poetry from Hafez and other celebrated poets and sharing the arrival of Spring collectively. Traditionally, this is celebrated in each household with close family and friends sitting in front of the decorated table count down the last seconds of the dark Winter.

Please come along to the Lookout Tower and start your Norooz meaning the New Day with us.

Those interested in attending are kindly asked to bring a small offering of a bottle of water or wine, nibbles - traditionally we have cakes and sweets right after the equinox

Please RSVP Minoo:

minooesat@hotmail.com

07872527355

ARTS CLUB BEACH BALL: DRESS AS A WORK OF ART

SAVE THE DATE!

Saturday 4th June from 12 noon onwards!

You could come dresses as Andy Warhol’s self portrait!

This is just an example, you can of course choose whichever work of art you would like to be! Email me with your choice ASAP as we would like each entrant to be different.

MEMBERS’ NEWS

RYAN GANDER: ROYAL ACADEMICIAN

Congratulations to our member Ryan Gander on being elected a Royal Academician.

THE IDEA OF DEGARD, VISIONARY BRITMUSEUM

Brand new visionary art outside British Museum, London.

The Visionary Brit Museum in a heritage Red telephone box outside the British Museum and is the first gallery to only represent visionary ideas in art and science.

We will have a regular schedule of amazing exhibitions from contemporary visionary artists including Degard, Melissa Alley, Rupert Record, Paul Greenleaf, Gabriel Rico, Dominic Shepherd, Marc Titchner, Janet Saad Cook and Kate Michel

Visionary Brit Museum is open at the same times as the British Museum itself. Just open the door (soon!) and we will see you there!

https://visionarybritmuseum.co.uk

SOPHIE HARGRAVES, MY SELF(ISH) PORTRAIT GALLERY

The Courtyard Gallery, 8th-13th March

Come as yourSELF, Friday 11th March

SOPHIE, Mistress of Art, is a confessional artist, through performance and conceptual art, SOPHIE presents to the world her world which is your world too. Valuing all of which we have come to undervalue. The humble spatula, the dutiful tea towel, the supportive rolling pin and the woman’s Menstrual Cycle. Through deep inner inquiry, SOPHIE has come to see she is THE GOD of her own Universe-city. SOPHIE challenges the landscape of what has come to be expected as societal norms, health norms and educational norms. SOPHIE is integral in her choices, SOPHIE’s life is the art.

YOU ARE INVITED.

Come as yourSELF is a live Therapeutic Counselling session. Artist SOPHIE will be publicly in session with Ewan Stickley, a Therapeutic Counsellor. True to form of a therapy session, this performance art will be 50 minutes long.

This tension inducing live art is unscripted, SOPHIE and Ewan have only met once at this point. This is deliberate. The focus will be on the immediacy of what is happening for SOPHIE in the space, flowing with what comes up in the session. Therapeutic Counselling has been a central player in SOPHIE’s art. It was the artists space with her second Therapeutic Counsellor SOPHIE calls, Zen Ken, where SOPHIE would take her art before sharing it openly. Art has been the medicine for SOPHIE aiding her to be the witness to herself. What reveals is the ever changing persona; like a murmuration in constant flow yet in form, an entity which can not be labelled, moulded or caged.
BOOKING FOR THE PERFORMANCE IS ESSENTIAL

http://iamselfish.co.uk/selfish-events/come-as-yourself-party

TIME: PLEASE ARRIVE 6PM FOR 7PM START. DOORS WILL CLOSE AT 6.45pm and open again at 8.15pm to those who do not wish to join for the performance.

PERFORMANCE TIME: 50 MINS

MICHAEL STUBBS AND JOHN BUNKER PRESENT SIGNI-FIANCE: PAINTING BEYOND BORDERS

CAROL LAWRENCE: FRUITS OF THE EARTH

ABBEY HALL

Gary and Olivia invite us to a fundraising evening for the Waveney Trust on March 11th at their very beautiful Abbey Hall, near Eye.

“We are hosting a fundraising evening for the Waveney Trust on March 11. It will be an intimate celebration of the rivers and waterways that are so vital to our communities, wildlife, nature and the planet.

If we can muster enough in a relatively short time frame, we would love to stage an exhibition upstairs and auction the contents to raise money for the trust.”

CARO HALFORD: RETURNING TO ETCHING AND THE LIFE ROOM

We are excited to be running a two-day workshop titled ‘Return to Etching - The Model and the Life Room’ run by Fine Artist and Printmaker, Catherine Greenwood who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in printmaking. For her full biography please visit www.catherinegreenwood.co.uk Beginners to Etching are welcome.

On this two-day etching workshop, we will be concentrating on a refresher course in etching with a close focus on Aquatint and Sugar Lift. On Day 1 we will be drawing directly from the human figure onto etching plates, (These plates will be prepared in advance with soft or hard ground). On Day 2 we will be continuing with the human form or concentrating on our own print making projects.

Our workshop on the 7th and 8th of April 2022 will run from 10 am till 4pm and will be a refresher course in etching with a close focus on Aquatint and Sugar Lift. We will also be concentrating on the human form and the first day will be life-drawing on an etching plate and we will be studying the human anatomy unclothed and partly clothed. This workshop will connect with the long eighteenth century when women were not allowed in the life drawing room or attend life classes. The difficulties female artists faced in studying the human anatomy was a recurring theme in the Long Eighteenth Century.

For more information on our two-day courses please visit www.millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk. To book your place on the two-day workshop, please email Caro at Mill Street Etching Studio enquiries@millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk

BRITTEN PEARS ARTS

April / May events and The Red House, bookings open tomorrow at 10 am!

Information on how to book is below, and we hope you find this much of interest.

View events and The Red House

GEORGE FARNHAM GALLERY SPRING EXHIBITION

Opens March 2nd

A mixed show with mew work from both gallery stalwarts and new artists. Pieces by Michele Ashby, Jillifar Amor, Jamie Green, Susan Debnam, Kit Leese, Jane Cochrane, Anne Paton, Patricia Lomax and others.

https://thegeorgefarnhamgallery.uk

SAVE THE DATE: INK FESTIVAL

21st-24th April, 2022

After 2 years of being unable to hold the INK festival, it is back big-time in 2022, with a new format.

The festival is expanding into a multitude of different places around the town of Halesworth, offering performance spaces spread over 8 exciting venues. Each venue will have hour-long performances of 3 or more short new plays, showing several times a day. A day ticket allows you to visit as many performances as you wish.

There are plays written by Miranda Hart, Will Gompertx and Elliot Cowan as well as so many by first-time writers. Find out more here.

Festival day tickets from £20.00

Evening comedy tickets £16.00

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NEW MEMBER: DOMINIC WHITEN

Dominic began his photographic career in London in the late 1980’s, working in professional darkrooms alongside assisting other photographers and shooting his own freelance commissions. In 2008 he founded his own professional practice, specialising in reportage wedding photography, going on to win 5 WPJA awards for his work. He is also a long standing judge on the Wedding Industry Awards photography panel. His personal work has been exhibited in the UK and appears in two monographs; ‘Flora’ and ‘Postcards from Penwith’ alongside several self-published ‘zines.

Dominic has an interest in psychogeography and is currently working on a project about Aldeburgh with the working title ‘I count only bright hours’ whilst completing a MA in Photography with Falmouth University.

Having swapped London for Suffolk in 2012, Dominic is a resident of Aldeburgh. You can see his work on instagram at @boomingbittern and @dominicwhitenweddings