August 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.
We are thrilled to welcome many new members over the past few months and look forward to us all meeting and mingling and collaborating.
At the very bottom of the bulletin are a few photos of the arty fun we had during July.
See you all soon,
Caroline x
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
Caroline Greenwell looking very relaxed on Aldeburgh Beach
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 3rd August, 1pm
This months Arts Club lunch is kindly hosted by Caroline Greenwell. She lives in a beautiful house in Aldebugh. Please let me know if you would like to come and I will email you her you her address. As always, 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.
CREATIVITY IN SCIENCE AND WORKING WITH ARTISTS
Wednesday 3rd August, 6:30pm at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout
Please note the date of Prof David Berman's presentation at the Lookout: Creativity in Science and Working with Artists is Wednesday 3rd August at 6.30pm (not 6th August). All are welcome!
The goals and challenges of bringing science and art together are the subject of a presentation to be given by the eminent professor of Physics, David Berman. Prof. Berman is a theoretical physicist at Queen Mary University of London. His research explores ideas of unification and bringing together relativity and quantum theory. He has also spent the last twenty years working with a variety of artists and galleries. This includes talks at Tate Modern for Miroslaw Balka, the White Cube for Anslem Kiefer and has produced works with Grenville Davey, as well as exhibiting at the Royal Academy.
The presentation will be followed by questions and an open discussion. Drinks will be served and there will be a donations box.
All welcome, RSVP.
HELEN ATKINSON WOOD
Carnival Collection at The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout
An exhibition of works art by Helen Atkinson Wood from Wednesday 10th August - Monday 15th August (Carnival day). 11am - 4pm, daily.
Helen's pictures follow her from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, where formidable Maggi Hambling was one of her tutors, through her career in entertainment, best known as Mrs Miggins in “Blackadder III” to the landscape that she loves here in Suffolk.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Above and Beyond, Susanna MacInnes
This exhibition promises to take you up to some dizzy heights where I’ve been painting in and around Aldeburgh, as well as further afield in London, Cornwall and Brittany!
Back at street level I've been soaking up the atmosphere, intrigued by queues outside the bakery, families playing by the boating pond, Thorpeness Meare, and the River Alde.
This will be an in person exhibition so works will be for sale from the Gallery. Following the exhibition, available paintings will be for sale from my website www.pindroppainting.com
Britten Pears Proms, Michael Flint
1st - 31st August | Open Daily from 10am - start of evening concert
Five years after his last triumphant exhibition, Michael Flint returns for his final Snape show, with new etchings, oils and watercolours of the Alde and Ore estuary.
Free, no ticket required.
https://brittenpearsarts.org/michael-flint-maltings-to-the-sea-and-beyond
Emma Hegarty at Ballroom Arts
15th - 21st August | Private View on Friday 19th August from 6pm
Emma’s dreamlike paintings explore the boundaries between perceived and imagined realities. She blends remembered landscapes with visions of the imperceptible.
Working with striking precision in pencil and paint, she creates surreal compositions that suggest the potential that lies beyond our three dimensions. Her most recent work explores the natural and architectural features of Aldeburgh and the surrounding area, many a source of fascination since childhood.
Ballroom Arts welcomes two new group shows and one solo show in August.
Near & Far August 2nd - 7th. The Ballroom and the Courtyard Gallery Gala Fine Art Bristol and ArtDog London have teamed up to present fourteen of their gallery artists from Bristol, London, Norfolk, Suffolk and Spain.
Jane Beaumont August 8th - 14th. Jane returns for her second show in the Courtyard Gallery.
Six on the Beach August 15th - 21st. The Ballroom and the Courtyard Gallery.
Coming up in September, we celebrate BallroomArts' 1st anniversary. Details coming soon.
Visit their website for our new dates and rates for 2023.
Caro Halford, Mill Street Etching
13th - 14th August | 10am - 4pm
Just a gentle reminder we have two remaining spaces for our next workshop on the 13/14th of August where we will be joined by artist and printmaker, Catherine Greenwood who will be concentrating on the Green printmaking techniques in hard and soft ground etching with aquatint and sugar lift added to the mix!
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
Michael Cuddigan Trust, Charlotte Mew
Wednesday 7th September | 7pm, Asylum Chapel, Peckham
An evening of Poetry and Music in partnership with Faber Members. Described by Siegfried Sassoon as ‘the only poet who can give me a lump in my throat’, Charlotte Mew was greatly admired in her day and also counted Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare amongst her admirers.
Join us for a very special evening of poetry and music to mark the paperback publication of This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus, featuring 'Six Charlotte Mew Settings' by our 2017 Award recipient Kate Whitley, sung by our 2018 Award recipient Héloïse Werner.
£20 Faber Members | £25 General Entry | £10 Student Concession
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/charlotte-mew-reluctant-icon-general-entry/
Georgina Lock, Lady in a Veil
Saturday 13th August | 6.30pm at Vela Cafe, Saxmundham
Lady in a Veil is a solo show based on the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth century’s most fascinating woman. Self-educated, she wrote poetry and essays and spoke four languages. In 1717, as wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, she visited harems where she watched “engrafting” - the technique of scratching a pinhead of smallpox pus under the skin to prevent deadly infection. She had her son ‘engrafted’ and 1721, introduced ‘engrafting’ to Britain. Seventy years before Dr Edward Jenner used cowpox to vaccinate against smallpox, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu saved thousands of lives.
Written, directed and performed by Georgina, Lady in a Veil toured historic houses, theatres, libraries and museums in 2019.
Dr Silke Schelenz (MD, PhD), a consultant microbiologist at Kings College Hospital London, will lead a discussion after the performance on past and current infectious diseases including smallpox, COVID and the recent monkeypox.
Tickets £6 with donations to Médecins sans Frontières. Book via info@velapartners.co.uk.
Lunchtime Classical Concert Series
Aldeburgh Parish Church | 12pm Monday 22nd August
The highly successful series of Classics Concerts, clearly showed that the public are now happy to attend live concerts once again. Save the Children are collaborating with Nadia Lasserson to continue the series of hour-long concerts in 2022 with the second taking place on Monday 22nd August at 12 noon in Aldeburgh Parish Church, Victoria Road. NICHOLAS MARSHALL (BARITONE) & NADIA LASSERSON (PIANO) will perform Romantic works by Schubert and Tosti and look forward to welcoming you all. Admission is free- with a retiring collection for Save the Children.
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
