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 September.

See you all soon,

Caroline x

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

The Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 5th October | 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.

This months focus is on Sara Sayer

Greetings Aldeburgh Arts Club, I am Sara Sayer a painter and illustrator living in Walpole near Halesworth. I arrived in Suffolk with my family in June 2021 and I’m excited to get to know more of the local arts scene and personalities through this club.
In my paintings, using nature as my muse, I explore the balance and fascinating tension between abstraction and reality. Focussing on universal touchpoints of natural perfection, I seek to find meaning and solace away from the hubbub of contemporary life. My artwork forms my prayer and meditation on the magical consolation of nature

THE ARTS CLUB ALDEBURGH BEACH

The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach - Benefits of Membership

There are incalculable, innumerable benefits of membership of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach but here are just a few which come to mind...

1) The invitation to join in exhibitions, including important ones overseas such as the Venice Biennale when in 1919 over 100 members of the Arts Club came with us to Venice as part of ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE.

2) The possibility of an art residency at the Lookout

3) The opportunity of hiring the Lookout for specific functions or events like art courses or to make art.

4) Opportunities to collaborate with other members - many wonderful projects have been created by artists who have met as members of the Club. We also make our own exhbitions and art projects, the Angel of the East. is an example.

5) We go on fun arty annual trips - eg to Cyprus, to the prestigious Cill Rialaig Arts Project n Western Ireland, to the Tuscan Hills and more...

6) We have members who are poets, writers, musicians and scientists as well as visual artists and the opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of ideas are exhilarating.

7)) The life of an artist can be isolated and lonely and the Arts Club has nourished many, many friendships.

8) The chance to make influential contacts. The Arts Club has many members and contacts who are influential in the arts world here in Suffolk, in London and in the wider arts establishment. In the past few years, many RAs have visited us as well as museum directors and well-known peronalisities such as Andrew Marr

9) Free publicity for your art projects in our monthly Arts Club bulletin which goes to 350 people including members of the Club, press and other influential arts people.

LOOKOUT COOKOUT

Viewing of paintings Saturday 15th October, 11am - 1pm at The Lookout.

TESSA SINCLAIR

New Member, Tessa Sinclair

I grew up in Woodbridge but went away and lived a medical life for many years in London. In 2019 I moved to Aldeburgh and now divide my time between Aldeburgh and London. My photographic career started as a way of recording life. Only after joining the MA Photographic Studies course at Westminster, did I really learn what image making could do and discover its potential for expression and communication.

My work is rooted in landscape and ‘place’ which affords a wealth of metaphorical material. I also make photobooks which are concerned with the narratives of life and emotion. My first book ‘Here is all I want to be’, published in 2017, was about the solace to be found in nature. Last year I published my second book. ‘A Restless Land’, a melancholy collection concerned with the undertones of Covid through images of dusk and night. It was shortlisted for the Charcoal Book Publishing prize and is currently on sale in The Photographers Gallery in London.

‘Breathe’ is an exhibition of contemplative, still scenes with a visually arresting aesthetic that addresses our presence within the landscape.

Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd, 10am - 5pm Daily at The Courtyard Gallery.

Thursday 20th October late opening 6.30 - 8.30pm

Click here to visit Tessa’s website.

MEMBERS’ NEWS

The George Farnham Gallery

Tuesday 4th - Saturday 15th October

The autumn season launches at the Gallery with a solo exhibition by Rendham artist Chris Bishop
"My painting has always led me in random directions - this is a selection from my wanderings"

Chris invites you to join her for a private viewing with light refreshments on Saturday 8th October between 11am and 3pm.

Visit their website here.

Lunchtime Classical Concert Series

Tuesday 18th October, 12 noon | Aldeburgh Parish Church

Suffolk Poetry Society National Poetry Day

Thursday 6th October, 1-2pm | The Lookout

We are looking forward to returning to Poetry on the Beach this year. We also have a few more events planned this year, the Crabbe Poetry Competition Awards will be at Eye Bowls Club on October 1st. We hope to be launching a special birthday anthology at Poetry in Aldeburgh and to be able to celebrate Ronnie Blythe’s hundredth birthday later in November or early December.

Suffolk Poetry Society Big Birthday Bash

Saturday 22 October, 7:30pm | John Peel Centre, Stowmarket
Join us for a night to remember to celebrate Suffolk Poetry Society's 70th Birthday, with SPS Patron Luke Wright, supported by Fran Reader & John Vaughan. Tickets £15.
Book tickets online at www.johnpeelcentre.com. Please note that a booking fee of £1 per ticket will be added to online purchases, you can save the booking fee by booking by phone.

Box Office: 01449 774678

Making Sense

Tuesday 27th October - Sunday 2nd November, 10am - 5pm | The Aldeburgh Gallery

An exhibition showcasing new work by three contemporaries.

Head over to Susan’s Instagram to find out more.

Mireille Ribière, A Book Of Margin

Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2022, 11am - 7pm | Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Mireille Ribière will be showing her latest artist's book, A Book Of Margins, with AM Bruno at the Small Publishers' Fair 2022

http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2022/

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.

Submit a Notice