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 March | 1pm

This month we are grateful to Diana Huntingford for hosting the lunch in her lovely home in Aldeburgh. As usual, we bring food and drink to share. Let me know if you would like to come and I will email you her address.

Next month, Wednesday 5th April, we are grateful to Paul Motion and James Lockhart for hosting the monthly Arts Club lunch in their fascinating home/studio in Leiston. Again please let me know if you can come and I will forward you their address.

THE SPRING SHOW

The Spring Show, Saturday 18th March

An exhibition of works by artists - eminent and emerging - in the Aldeburgh Beach Arthouse. This is a good opportunity to see around the house if you haven't yet seen it!

Saturday 18th March | 11am - 4pm | Food and drink will be served

ALEXANDRA HELM, EXTENDED REALITY

Alexandra Helm at The Spring Show

Alongside the Spring Show, in the Lookout, Alexandra Helm presents EXTENDED REALITY an exhibition of her paintings and prints which explore links between memory, dream and observation. View her work here!

Saturday 18th March | 11am - 4pm | Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

All welcome!

BIG WOMEN

Big Women at Firstsite

This exhibition at Firstsite is curated by the artist Sarah Lucas and includes several Suffolk artists. The Arts Club is making a trip to it during March and will be met by the director of Firstsite. We are awaiting the precise date for this and plan to combine it with a visit to Postcards for Perec. This is a touring exhibition with contributions by Arts Club members David Baldry, Susan Brinkhurst, Carol Lawrence, Mireille Ribiere, Jane Watt and Caroline Wright in response to Georges Perec's postcard messages. This show, at the University of Essex in Colchester, ends at the end of March so we need to fix up something pronto! Let me know if you would like to join our trip.

NEW MEMBER: REBECCA STYLES

Rebecca Styles

This month we introduce Rebecca Styles, an artist who has heard about us but who lives and works in isolation in the Outer Hebrides. She plans to come and visit us, but meanwhile, we can read all about her and her practice here!

Landscape, and the emotive power of ‘place’, is at the heart of Rebecca’s practice, and her exhibitions stem from extended projects related to place. Using natural materials she explores a deeper connection to ancient locations in her work, with an emphasis on creating landscape with landscape – using earth pigments, grit, charcoal and other found materials with her oil paints. She has spent recent years exploring some of the UKs most beautiful locations, collecting foraged materials for use in her paintings and creating a series of works for exhibition, including her first Hebridean collection, Bigger Than Us, shown at Grinneabhat Gallery, North Bragar in spring 2022, followed by Alchemy, an exhibition of paint, poetry and place in collaboration with writer Heather Young, shown at Baile na Cille Church on the Isle of Lewis, and her winter 2022/23 project Finding Lewis at Talla Na Mara Arts Centre on the Isle of Harris.

MELISSA MURRAY PRESENTS TIPPING POINT

Melissa Murray Presents Tipping Point

Melissa Murray presents Tipping Point, a dynamic sculptural takeover of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

Opening Party, Saturday 1st April | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

Launch of LOOKOUT COOKOUT!

This cookbook is an extravaganza of recipes and works of art, in which The Arts Club have a prominent presence. We will be tasting recipes with some of the artists.

Easter Weekend Friday 7th - Monday 10th April | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

All welcome!

ARTS CLUB OPEN

Arts Club Open Exhibition

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 | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout

Aldeburgh Carnival | Monday 21st August

ARTS CLUB TRIP TO CYPRUS COLLEGE OF ART

The Arts Club goes to Cyprus College of Art

Here is a link to this historic art school which many eminent artists have attended over the years!

Saturday 23rd - Saturday 30th September

Saturday 30th September - Saturday 7th October.

£235 for own room per week (£165 sharing) | Shared shower rooms.

Includes own studio space and art tuition/guidance by David Baldry, former Head of Art at the University of Suffolk.

This will be a fun, hot, creative week when we make art in the mornings and then explore in the afternoons or make more art and then walk ten minutes down to the beach and swim in the beautiful blue sea. We club together to buy local food and wine and then cook and eat together. We all join in!

The first week is fully booked. The second week has some places. I have reserved a couple of places in the first week for anyone who would like to go for the two weeks, as David Baldry and I are.

It's getting sold out so let me know asap if you are interested!

MEMBERS’ NEWS

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: The Show, An Evening with Kate Mosse

Fancy a great night out in the theatre? Why not join Kate Mosse in her first ever one-woman show celebrating amazing women, dazzling history, and even get a sneak early preview of Kate's latest novel? Audiences can expect a fabulous theatrical event - part detective story, part love letter to history - packed with fun facts and did-you-knows. For the curious and young at heart,Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World will surprise, entertain, challenge as Kate brings to the stage the stories of some of the most inspiring, extraordinary and trail-blazing women throughout history.

https://www.theapex.co.uk/whats-on/details.cfm?id=748547&ins=1064790

Jane Beautmont: The Hope Exhibition

An exhibition of paintings at Fishers Gin, February & March 2023

See more of Jane’s work here!

GIVE HOPE X ABBEY HALL

A fundraising evening in support of the devastated communities in Turkey and Syria.

Saturday 1st April | 7pm - 10pm

Get your tickets here.

The George Farnham Gallery

After a month long break, the Gallery reopened on the 2nd February and are looking forward to more art adventures in 2023!

https://thegeorgefarnhamgallery.ukb

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.co

Submit a Notice