September 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 August.
See you all soon,
Caroline x
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
The Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 7th September | 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.
SOPHIE LÉONE
New Member, Sophie Léone
Hi! I am delighted to be joining the Aldeburgh Arts Club. I was connected with Caroline through my friends Perienne Christian and SOPHIE. I am a local author, performer and speaker who galvanises women to take ownership of who they are and unapologetically show up as their authentic selves, by tapping into their desires, using voice and energy to activate an inner strength that's hidden deep within.
I am seeking deep conversations and exchanges with like-minded artists. I am seeking to ‘get on the road’ my One Woman Show adapted from my debut book from September onwards and I see this club as a wonderful opportunity to explore how we can help each other expand our artistic endeavours. I look forward to meeting you at an event soon.
Click here to view Sophie’s full profile on our members page.
FROM THE OTHER SIDE
Dominique Dureau and Christian Tangre present From the Other Side
An exhibition of new drawings and sculptures by French artists Dominique Dureau and Christian Tangre at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout.
Private View 5 - 7pm Thursday 15 September |11am - 5pm Friday 16th - Sunday 18th September
THE ARTS CLUB BEACH BALL
The Arts Club Beach Ball
The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach Beach Ball in June was spectacular - click on the link below to see all the works of art which members dressed as.
https://www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com/arts-club-beach-ball-june-2022
MEMBERS’ NEWS
UK Artists Annual Exhibition
Tuesday 30th August - Sunday 4th September | Ballroom Arts
Click here to visit their website and find out more.
Meet the Artists and Prize Presentation
Saturday September 3rd, 2pm - 4pm | Ballroom Arts
You are warmly invited to the UK Artists Exhibition 2022. Click here to find out more!
Walberswick Studio Trail
Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th September, 10am - 5pm | The Barn
Natural Elements, Nicola Mountney
1st - 7th September | Open daily 10am - 6pm
Together with Felicity Jones and Louise Sant, Nicola Mountney presents a selection of original paintings demonstrating her unique style of fusing East with West in terms of subject matter and technique. Nicola studied Tibetan Buddhist thangka (scroll) painting and went on to develop her own style with an emphasis on precision, colour and detail in gouache.
Private view Friday 2nd September, 5pm - 7:30pm and Saturday 3rd September, 12pm - 6pm, all welcome.
Charlotte Mew, Reluctant Icon
7th September 2022 | The Asylum Chapel, Peckham
Anne Cuddigan invites us to this special evening in aid of the Michael Cuddigan Trust. Tickets are £25 from www.Faber.co.Uk/product/Charlotte-mew-reluctant-icon-general-entry/
Perienne Christian Exhibition Ending Party
11th September, 12 - 5pm | White House Farm
For those local to Suffolk or wanting a trip this way, you are cordially invited to my exhibition ending party on the 11th of September. 12pm Bubbly on arrival, 1pm Lunch, 4pm Tea and cake.
The exhibition runs until the 17th of September, open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 10 - 5pm.
Please click here below to view the catalogue and also a recording of the artist talk Q&A between myself and Jason Gathorne Hardy, the curator from the 6th August.
Please RSVP: enquiries@galloper-sands.co.uk
Mireille Ribière at Ballroom Arts
Tuesday 13th - Sunday 18th September | Private View on Thursday 15th September from 4:30pm - 7pm
An international exhibition curated by Claudia Schneider. The show includes paintings and prints by Marie-Christine Morris and artists’ books and photographs by Mireille Ribière. Here is a rich selection of works, borne of very different social and cultural experiences, from three artists alive to the noise and silences of their respective worlds, and eager to experiment with shapes, shades, colours and textures.
Musicroom in partnership with FlipSide presents Hannes Buder
Friday 16 September, 7pm | Yew Tree Farm European Tour
Hannes Buder is an experimental musician, composer and improviser, born in the former GDR and based in Germany. He will be performing his latest work, ‘Outside Words’, as a prelude to Flipside’s ‘World in Motion’.
A subtle blend of the familiar and strange, Buder’s work is both compelling and disturbing, accentuating and disrupting strands of almost-familiar melody, and manipulated sound. Once you think you know where you are, you move on... then you re-group and all seems well. For a while. And in the end it is, but you know you’ve been on a journey.
7.00 Doors open | 7.30 Outside Words | Concert lasts approx one hour
Tickets £13 (inc. booking fee)
Buy Tickets Here
Dunwich Future Past with the Dunwich Drifters Folk Group
Saturday 17th September, 3pm | Dunwich museum field
Suggested donation £8 cash or card reader including tea & light refreshments at 4.15pm. Pre-booking 01728 648796 or at the door all proceeds in aid of the Museum.
Dunwich Future Past links our Climate Change future with Dunwich the city drowned a thousand years ago, Britain’s own Atlantis.
Jeremy Solnick invites us to Rivonia
Saturday 22nd September, 7:30 pm | The Cut
Jack Kraft tells the story of the two men who saved the life of Nelson Mandela, from the poem written by Jeremy Solnick.
Shake Festival, The Cut
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September from 10am | The Cut
SHAKE Festival is delighted to return to The Cut on September 24th & 25th, with a dazzling line-up presenting a weekend of talks, workshops and performance on the subject of Shakespeare, open to all.
During the pandemic artistic director Jenny Hall took SHAKE Festival online, with live-streamed rehearsed readings of three plays and an evening of sonnets, featuring international stars Dan Stevens, Harriet Walter, Rebecca Hall, Geraldine James, Oliver Cotton, Janet Suzman, and many superb actors from Suffolk and beyond.
The box office is now open - click here to book tickets!
Herber & Co.
For me, Travellers Joy is a symbolic herb for this time of year. It is a herb that reminds me of a book of the same name by Juliette de Bairacli Levy, who spent most of her life learning folklore and herbalism from the indigenous travelling communities of Europe in the last century. Her understanding of these cultures informs the book’s beautiful descriptions of the world that breathes around us…water, air, purification, fire and herbs.
It is the natural world that intertwines all of our travels, giving the backdrop to the pleasures and pains of life. Like a ripple effect, when a stone hits quiet water, I feel this resonance throughout the practice I experience. At Poyntzfield, a biodynamic herb nursery for whom I lend a hand during the annual Arnica harvest, the biodynamic ethic is to work intensively by hand within a self sufficient ‘closed’ loop of sustainability. This summer I again experienced how their concentrated way of working enables pure interaction with the medicinal herbs. A unique relationship with the plants evolves where they have massive power to influence us and our bodies. It reminds me that Folk Lore and folk medicine is for us, folk.
These ‘hands on’ immersive ways of viewing life inform the ethos behind my woodland courses. It is at the heart of my practice, and has directed the way in which our woodland space among the trees and wildlife has evolved - a gently integrated encampment evolving gradually through experience, seeking acceptance from the living beings already inhabiting the space where we ensure to keep our human impact minimal.
‘Woodlanding’ is beginning for a second season along with new workshops and adult classes for autumn. All the workshops are designed for you to have fun, to relax and to experiment.‘Woodlanding' weekly sessions are set to include a full day of practical activities including green woodworking, tool use, species identification, learning knots, ropes and cordage, campfire cooking, making fire, natural inks, using herbs practically, tree medicine and creative activities.
For further information and to book courses and workshops please visit the website www.herberandco.uk
Mill Street Etching
In August Our two-day workshop titled ‘The Model and the Life Room’ Part II’ course with artist and printmaker Catherine Greenwood was held on two of the hottest days this summer on Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th of August at Mill Street Etching Studio. Some warmup exercises with life model in the Rose Garden at Mill Street Etching Studio...Drawing from life to plate.
NEXT Workshop ‘Return to Etching – Experimenting with Hard and Soft grounds with Aquatint’ will be on the 9th and 10th of December 2022 with artist and printmaker, David Stubbs who will be concentrating on the hard ground, soft ground and aquatint processes in this workshop. Please bring an idea or image to work on for an edition or a Christmas card! Watch this space for more updates on this workshop. Please email Caro to reserve a place for the December workshop, spaces filling up quickly!
enquiries@millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk
The George Farnham Gallery
Our annual Summer Exhibition is continuing to run throughout August and September. We have a large selection of paintings and prints by over 30 artists, alongside work in ceramic, glass, fabric and wood. There is something for all tastes … and wallets ... with prices from £5 to £400!
Click here to visit their website.
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
