April 2022
The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach merges elements of the Chelsea Arts Club and Gertrude Stein’s Arts Salon. Our 280 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk.
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
Here are this month’s Members’ Notices. All are also displayed on the website. New work can also be viewed if you visit the online shop.
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 6th April, 1pm @ The Lookout
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 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th April
MAD Mondays Making Art Days
Last month, led by Suffolk artist Vicky West, we made flowers for Ukraine, in solidarity with its people and the laying of 1.5 million tulips in Kyiv.
Artists are invited to make art all day from 11 - 3pm. 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. Making Art Days creates a safe space where we can create, think, collaborate and step aside from our usual practices and make something new.
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.
While we are exploring how MAD MONDAYS work best, we are not charging for the event, but only ask you to put a donation in the pot.
ARTS CLUB BEACH BALL: DRESS AS A WORK OF ART
Arts Club Beach Ball, Saturday 4th June
You could come as Degas’ Ballerina! This is just an example, you can of course choose whichever work of art you would like to be! Email me with your choice as we would like each entrant to be different works of art.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
The Red House, Aldeburgh
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' home in Aldeburgh offers a charming snapshot into the two men's lives. The farmhouse, nestled in a beautiful five-acre garden, is home to their collections and archive, alongside a gallery space, museum shop and outdoor café.
The Aldeburgh Festival 2022
The Festival is back with an especially extended, 24-day celebration of music and the arts. Time hasn’t stopped over the last two years, but our sense of time and its regular rhythms do seem to have been disrupted. The disappearance of time is a key element in Tom Coult and Alice Birch’s opera, Violet, which opens the Festival, and running out of time is the motivation for a number of large-scale works about the climate crisis.Programming strands include Britten and Women and a celebration of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at 50, and there are also events marking the Platinum Jubilee of HM The Queen.
Browse all Festival events here.
Aldeburgh Literary Festival
The Aldeburgh Literary Festival was started in 2002 by John and Mary James of The Aldeburgh Bookshop. It has featured an extraordinary variety of talks, from the local to the global, the serious to the hilarious, the scientific to the philosophical. The Festival is proud to be located in Aldeburgh at the Jubilee Hall and we are delighted that our audience fills the streets of Aldeburgh with visitors and conversation in a winter weekend. The intimate atmosphere makes it very special. We are also proud that this is a completely independent Literary Festival receiving no grants or sponsorship.
View the programme here.
Nadia Lasserson, Lunchtime Classical Concert Series
Trios by Bach, Beethoven & Donizetti. Looking forward to welcoming you all.
Admission is free- with a retiring collection for Save the Children.
The Land of Bent Grass
Tessa Sinclair invites you to visit her exhibition at The Aldeburgh Gallery.
INK Festival, 21st-24th April
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.
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.
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
Rosalind Bieber: Aldeburgh Gallery, 31st March - 6th April
Although having had a career as a concert pianist Rosalind Bieber has always been fascinated by the world of jazz.Her recent colourful series of jazz paintings attempt to reveal the vibrancy and atmosphere of the jazz scene.
She will also be showing some images from her animal world series. Some years ago following on from a diagnosis of total allergy syndrome , she became allergic to all conventional art materials. She was forced to experiment with sand, dental concrete , pure pigment and collage. These pictures are a result of that time.
She has found that there is a link between these seemingly unrelated subject matter....freedom...the freedom of the wild and the freedom of the jazz player in improvisation.
Find out more here.
Courtyard Gallery presents: Earth, Mineral, Fire
‘Spring is here, the equinox has arrived, and the warm sun is shining. A new start, a fresh start, a burgeoning of life in nature, and this change, this border between winter and spring, is not a straight line - it is a wavy line, defused and liminal. So time for some fun - exhibitions are springing up!’
NEW MEMBERS
Astra Taylor-Todd
A self-taught artist focusing on creating work with fine detail. Drawing with pen, painting with ink and inspired by nature, Astra creates realism art depicting the beauty of animals with a colourful twist. The splash of colour Astra adds to her work has become a signature style and is easily recognisable alongside her classical monochrome drawings.
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.
PETER BLAKE RA, HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, PETER DICKINSON, RYAN GANDER, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, MICHAEL & PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, EAMONN MCCABE, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES,DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT
