The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach goes from strength to strength. Our 340 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk.

MEMBERS’ BULLETIN

This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website. New works of art for sale, books, and tickets for events can be viewed on the online shop.

Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!

See you all,

Caroline x

MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH

Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 1st February | 1pm @ The Art House

This month’s arts club will be held at the art house. Next month, Wednesday 1st March, the arts club lunch will be at arts club member Diana Huntingford’s gorgeous house in Aldeburgh. The monthly Arts Club lunch is always on the first Wednesday of the month, so please diarise. All welcome, no charge, just bring food and drink to share. Please RSVP to me if you would like to come next month and I will send you the address details.

ARTS CLUB OPEN CARNIVAL WEEKEND

Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach Open

Every member of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach is invited to exhibit one work of art in this brand new exhibition in the Lookout to be held over Carnival Week. Hanging will take place on Monday 14th August and the show will continue over the weekend, including Carnival Monday 21st August. The works can be for sale, if you wish, on commission. Take down on Tuesday 22nd August. More details to follow.

All who wish to take part in the Carnival Parade, dressed as a work of art of you choice, please let me know! This will be FUN!!

Viewing Party | Saturday 19th August at the Lookout

Aldeburgh Carnival | Monday 21st August

THE ARTS CLUB GOES TO CYPRUS COLLEGE OF ART

THE ARTS CLUB ALDEBURGH BEACH GOES TO CYPRUS

Saturday September 23rd - Saturday 30th September 2023

I am delighted to announce that the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach is off to Cyprus this year - very exciting! All are invited, but we only have 20 places available. We are staying at the famous and historic Cyprus College of Art which is an artists’ studio group situated in the village of Lempa on the West coast of Cyprus. Well known alumni include Rachel Whiteread, Euan Uglow, Terry Frost and Michael Kidner. We visited Cyprus five years ago before the restoration and had a ball, making art in the mornings and going to the beach - just a short walk away - in the afternoons. Lunchtimes and evenings we buy food locally and take it in turns to cook - and have great parties!

Note the prices on their website have not been updated since its restoration, but it is still very reasonable. The bedrooms and shower blocks have been refurbished and there are new studio spaces available also. Everyone will get their own studio space and David Baldry will be giving art tutorials and guidance during the week. Please see prices below.

Single room: £235 for the week (shared shower room + studio space)

Shared room: £165 for the week (two beds in each room, shared shower room + studio space)

This art trip will be very popular because it is fabulous and very cheap so if you’re interested, let me know ASAP!

Head to their website to find out more.

NEW MEMBER HANNA VARGA

This month’s Arts Club focus is on new member Hanna Varga

My work investigates creative navigational tools exploring a terrain between art and ecology. I feel called to connect threads of craft traditions, foraging, intuitive dialogue, and the recorded resources history and time left for me to study, holding the question:
Could art be an open-ended multidimensional cross- disciplinary enquiry into what it means to live meaningfully as a human being in the anthropocene?

Hanna Varga is a Hungarian-born professional artist and creative mentor based in Suffolk. In her art practice she nurtures her interconnected relationship with nature by reframing traditional notions of craftsmanship and its ever-evolving much debated relationship to art. Hanna trained as a sculptor in Hungary over 10 years ago specialising in the traditional lost-wax bronze casting technique. She is best known for her bronze leaf sculptures. She co-founded Ashleaf in London in 2015, dedicated to preserving leaves in bronze. Her work was featured in various exhibitions throughout the UK and internationally. More recently, she has been working as a facilitator of nature walks and creative group workshops both in urban and rural environments. She started a podcast in 2019 to record inspiring conversations with other creative practitioners called Dialogues with Nature which later served as a catalyst for founding the Dialogues with Nature Network, an experimental international community of naturalists.

Her current focus is natural cordage making using wild growing plant fibres she forages on her walks. She is currently developing a new collaborative project, The Foraged Rope on the Suffolk Coast. The envisioned result of which will be a rope of over 15000 meters made by hand, literally, intertwining wild plants and dialogues from this particular geographical stretch of space: where sea meets land.

Connect with Hanna @walkinglantern on instagram and find out more about her work on her website.

Keep an eye out on our Instagram for Hanna’s Instagram takeover to find out more!

MEMBERS’ NEWS

Andy Greenacre x Grayson Perry Arts Club at the Midlands Art Centre

Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham | Running until Mid April

Grayson selected arts club member Andy Greenacre’s Sandscapes for the third series of his Arts Club on Channel 4, under the week themed ‘Futures’. Andy was then invited to install one of his landscapes in the national exhibition.

Sandscapes: Waste of a Month by Andy Greenacre

Imagine a world where the space created by waste packaging is permanent, a physical confrontation of these voids. Sandscapes evokes a vast post-apocalyptic landscape, playfully challenging audiences to confront the impact of consumerism. The use of these familiar forms uncovers a commonality, opening up discussion and self-reflection on this shared problem.

Click here to find out more.

Aldeburgh Library Foundation

Learning at Aldeburgh Library | January to May 2023

The courses and activities in the Learning at Aldeburgh Library programme have various start dates. We know this can be confusing, but it is usually done to schedule as many as possible in the library, where our facilities are best.

You can find out more information about all courses, including times, duration and costs in the online programme, where there is also a booking form. Below is just a few of the activities starting before the mid-term break.

Starting w/b 23.1.23

Just write! Poetry with Vanessa Raison - six creative sessions in which you will create your own mini anthology

Perienne Christian: The Memory and Dream Course

Every Monday from 23rd January - 20th February | 6pm - 9pm on Zoom

We all have access to the visual representation of memory and dream through the imaginative realm. Through this course you will be encouraged to identify your own personal mythological imagery, by working with your memory and dream worlds as well as through poetry, stories and imagery that can help us take leaps into the unknown of the imaginative realms.

We will work with different formats such as concertina book format, large and small sheets of paper. By the end of the five weeks, you will have identified you own unique visual story representation and have created a series of images to represent this.

Click here to find out more!

Aldeburgh Cinema Trust

All the Beauty and Bloodshed | Aldeburgh Cinema Saturday 4th - Thursday 9th February

All the Beauty and Bloodshed is an epic, emotional story about internationally renowned photographer and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing.

We are organising a small group of us to see this extraordinary film on Wednesday 8th February, meeting at the cinema at 7pm for the 7.30pm viewing. Let me know if you would like to join us!

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.

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