July 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.
The Arts Club celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee with a spectacular Beach Ball
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
The Arts Club has just returned from a fabulous art trip to Tuscany
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 6th July @ 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.
The August Arts Club Monthly Lunch is on Wednesday 3rd August and it and is kindly hosted by Caroline Greenwell. She lives in a beautiful house in Alderbugh and this is where we all bring food to share for our August member's lunch. Please RSVP to me and I will give you her address. Here's a photo of her looking very relaxed on Aldeburgh beach alongside how she describes herself.
PERIENNE CHRISTIAN AROUND TIME
Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency & Exhibition
Come join us for the opening on the 16th of July 12-6pm, with fizz and nibbles!
Exhibition continues Sunday 17th July 12-4pm. On Sunday there will be a meditation and drawing workshop on the beach, run by Perienne 9-11am. Please email Perienne to book.
Is linear time a human construct to help us make sense of a world we have created? Could everything be happening simultaneously?
Woven into this exhibition are various elements that relate to this questioning of time.
On the ground floor, you will find paintings and etchings in response to the land here; a drawing (made during the residency) that journeys into its sounds and lifelines and a shifting through of lifetimes within the Herstory drawings and mono-prints. On the first floor, a look at and sensing of our ancient connection to the wild plant medicines that grow around us and at the top of the lookout, an invitation for you to explore what time means for you, in collaboration with Perienne.
LYNN DENISON
Sea-films from the Suffolk Coast
Showing at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th July.
A few miles down the coast from the vanishing town of Dunwich lies Thorpeness, developed in the early 20th century as a private fantasy holiday village by Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. The coastline in this area has some of the fastest eroding beaches in Europe. Lost at Sea juxtaposes present day footage and experiences of living in Thorpeness, with excerpts from W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn which describe the descent of the once affluent Medieval town of Dunwich, into the sea during a storm.
CHARLES FREEMAN NOSING AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN
Nosing Around the Mediterranean, Celebrating Saxtead 2022 Festival
Monday 11th July at 7pm in Saxtead Church. Tickets are free but the organiser, Christina Darell- Brown, would like to know how many are coming on 01728 724162. Voluntary donations to charity, The Salvation Army shelter for the homeless in Ipswich.
I will have a limited number of copies of my book The Awakening available for a discounted price of £20, of which £5 will go to the charity. I will of course sign any bought or brought to the evening.
I would love to see you there - this is a talk about my connections with the Mediterranean ever since 1966.
Although we may be full by the 11th (we only have two double rooms left), I will also provide details of my next tour to the area around Viterbo, north of Rome, from 26th September-3rd October. We shall be staying at a hotel converted from a eighteenth century farmhouse with pool near Viterbo and will have a schedule of cultural sights. We run a cost price minibus to and from Brandeston to Heathrow. If you would like details now, please let me know.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
JILA PEACOCK, SEVEN HEAVENS
We would like to invite you to attend the Private View on Friday the 1st of July from 5.30pm - 8.30pm at The Dovecote Studio, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk, IP17 1SP.
We are honoured to have the cellist Yalda Davis performing two of Jonathan Harvey’s Solo Cello pieces in the Dovecote this evening and hope that you will join us for this very special collaborative tribute.
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) is considered one of the most important Contemporary British composers. In this, the 10th anniversary of Harvey’s death, curator Devi Singh in collaboration with Britten Pears Arts are delighted to host Seven Heavens. This sensory installation of works created by respected artist Jila Peacock is inspired by Harvey’s 2008 choral work ‘Messages’. Alongside Jila’s considered multi-layered polyptych 7HEAVENS, seven composers who knew Jonathan have been asked to write a sound piece as a tribute to him & in response to Jila’s imagery. These contributions have been assembled into a single sound track by sound artist and composer Duncan Chapman and will be played as part of the installation.
Please RSVP devi@devisingh.com
CARO HALFORD, RETURN TO ETCHING
Available spaces for 1st and 2nd July at the Mill Street Etching Studio. We are excited to be running a two-day workshop titled ‘Return to Etching - The Model and the Landscape’ run by Fine Artist and Printmaker, David Stubbs who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in printmaking.
Our workshop will run from 10 am till 4pm and will be a refresher course in etching with a close focus on Aquatint and Sugar Lift. Our two-day printmaking workshops will include Hard and Soft Grounds, Sugar Lift Aquatint, Collagraph, Dry point etching or Mono printing from a sketchbook and are intended for all abilities of printmaking.
For our two-day courses please visit https://www.millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk
To book your place on our workshop please email enquiries@millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk
D’OYLY TARTE OKLAHOMA
The Doyly Tarte Theatre Company presents the liveliest musical of them all, Oklahoma!
Thursday 14th July and Saturday 16th July, doors open at 7pm, performance at 8pm, picnic at 9pm at Crowe Hall, Sutton, Suffolk.
To book tickets please email Annabel cam.cam@echointernet.net
GEORGINA LOCK, THE WALLED-UP WOMAN
Georgina Lock will perform her solo show, The Walled-Up Woman (in the character of a medieval anchoress) on Saturday 16th July at the Church of John the Baptist, Snape ( IP17 1QW). Doors open at 7pm, performance at 7.30pm.
Georgina wrote the script and gave a reading of it pre-lockdown at the South Look Out, then gave performances on zoom, but at last her anchoress can speak from inside four real walls!
Further information from www.georginalock.org.uk
SOPHIE, SELFISH MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
Suffolk artist SOPHIE is determined to change the way we see marriage at her ground-breaking exhibition, ‘My SELF(ish) Portrait Gallery’, at Aldeburgh’s Ballroom Arts Courtyard Gallery, 18th – 24th July.
Marriage ceremonies as we know them are between two people, the bride and groom, the bride and bride, the groom and groom. What if, before you commit to another, you marry yourself first? Artist SOPHIE has, and said, it is the most self-indulgent commitment she has ever made.
For more information and to have your SELFISH marriage booked in SOPHIE’s paper diary visit www.iamselfish.co.uk.
DEGARD, THE VISIONARY WALL
Here is an image of the painting which is part of The Visionary Wall which is an extensive piece of work that I have just created for the latest show at the University of East London. Private view on Saturday 23rd July.
Head over to Degard’s website to find out more.
THE CREATIVITY CAFE
The Creativity Cafe, run by Perienne Christian, returns from Wednesday 27th July at 6pm.
We already have a wonderful group of creatives but we still have a few spaces left if you would like to join us.
Do you have a creative practice or wish to begin one, but find that life and doubt gets in the way of allowing you to pursue it? Have you found that your wish to make work goes up and down and that once you stop, it’s very difficult to get going again? I have created the Creativity Cafe for just this dilemma! The Creativity cafe is a nurturing online space, where you are able to get to know others in the group and support one another on your journey. At the end of the 5 months, you have the opportunity to participate in an online exhibition with everyone showing a few pieces of work made during the Creativity Cafe, which can then be shared with family and friends and other contacts. A great way to celebrate the work you have made! The sessions will be run via Zoom and there is an online image gallery where you can upload work that you make during the month. So far we have had artists, writers and performers join the cafe!
Head over to the website to find out more!
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
