July 2024
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.
Sir PETER BLAKE RA, Sir HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, EMMA FREUD, RYAN GANDER RA, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, Lady PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES, DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
This Wednesday 3rd July the monthly Arts Club lunch is at the Arthouse (opposite to the Lookout) at 1pm.
Please bring food and drink to share as usual.
Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!
Love Caroline xx
Congratulations to Roger Wright
Congratulations!
Our honorary member Roger Wright was given a well deserved knighthood in the King’s birthday honours for services to music. He has very successfully masterminded Britten Pears Arts over the last ten years. Since this photograph was taken at the Arthouse a few years ago Roger has become Sir Roger and Humphrey has become Sir Humphrey!
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website
Arts Club Open
After our first hugely successful Arts Club Open, it returns for the second year!
Every single member is invited to exhibit one work of art (max 40cm x 40cm) of their choice - painting, drawing, sculpture, poem, prose, mini performance or any other expressions of creativity.
The dates are Friday 16th August until Wednesday 28th August 11-4pm daily Opening party Friday 16th August 6-8pm.
The exhibition spans the Aldeburgh Carnival and bank holiday weekend so is a great time to show art in Aldeburgh.
The exhibition will be on all three floors of the Lookout and is free of charge to all paid-up members of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach.
All pictures should be ready to hang with string on the back and attached to each picture should be a hanging tag including the following:
Name of the artist
Title of the picture
Medium
Retail price
Deliver and hang your work on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th August, first to arrive gets the best spot!
The works can be for sale and the Lookout takes 50% commission which reduces to 20% if you take a turn manning the show for a day. If you’d like to exhibit contact me as soon as possible and if you’d like to let me know the best day to help man the show.
We will encourage pictures to be taken away as they sell. Unsold pictures must be collected on Thursday 29th August.
On the 11th Anniversary of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach
We are reminded of the very many benefits of this flourishing Club…
Benefits to members include: fellowship of like-minded art lovers, the opportunity to get to know (and collaborate with) other creatives, free publicity of your art events through our monthly bulletin, monthly arts club lunch and much more!
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 2019 over 100 members of the Arts Club came with us to Venice as part of ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE.
2) You are invited to have a one day residency in 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.
5) We go on fun arty annual trips - e.g to Cyprus, to the prestigious Cill Rialaig, Arts Project in 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 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 personalities such as Andrew Marr.
9) Arts Club Open week-long exhibition in the Lookout. Each member is entitled to show one work of art, which can be for sale.
And thank you again to Sir Humphrey Burton and Diana Quick for being our special patrons
On Be-ing Here(Take 2)
Arabella Sim at The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout
A conversation with the sea
(An artist’s response residency)
at
The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout
Friday 5th - Sunday 7th July 2024
Saturday 6th July:
11-5pm: Tower open
11am: ‘Sea Flags’ a collaborative workshop. During the day please join me in making a collective ‘Conversation with the Sea’ artwork. Paint, text and sewing will be encouraged so bring suitable clothes.
6pm: Beach gathering for Swimming/BYO picnic and drinks
Sunday 7th July:
9am: Morning swim and breakfast BYO on beach
11-4pm: Tower open
RSVP: To Arabella DM email or text 07800-851683 or to caroline@carolinewiseman.com
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Lol Sargent invites us to
Adam and Eve in a Garden of Eden on the Montenegrin Adriatic coast. This project originated as part of Alive in the Universe which the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach presented for the Venice Biennale in 2019.
Vanessa Raison invites us to
Poetry in Aldeburgh Workshops
Raiding (or not) the inarticulate: writing through bereavement, led by Paul Stephenson and Fiona Moore (Sunday July 14 on Zoom) and Writing the River, led by Susannah Hart and Lisa Kelly (Sunday 28 July in London – location tbc). Places on these workshops are available to anyone who donates £50 or more to our campaign.
The George Farnham Gallery invites us to
There are places I remember
Our next exhibition, a solo show of work by Hilary Barry, opens on Tuesday, 2 July. Please do join us for a Private View on Friday, 5 July between 6pm & 8pm
Join rising New York star LIZZIE NO,
AMA UK multiple award winner MICHELE STODART,
East Nashville duo WILD PONIES, Alabama space-folk rockers ELECTRIC BLUE YONDER and two of the finest Cajun/Zydeco performers on the scene,
Texan RUBEN MORENO and the UK's LIL JIM.
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
5TH, 6TH & 7TH JULY
EASTON FARM PARK IP13 0EQ
BUY TICKETS HERE
Eileen Haring-Woods invites us to
THE CUT SUMMER PROJECT 15TH JULY 2024 - 24TH JULY 2024 SPECIAL EVENTS
The Cut Summer Project is an ambitious summer residency programme focusing on the themes of Environment, Identity, Migration and Sustainable Structures. As part of the residency programme, a series of talks by artist mentors are taking place at The Cut to encourage exploration and cross pollination across a range of approaches, including performance, digital and sound as well as more familiar forms. On July 18th starting at 7.30pm Eileen Haring Woods will be having a conversation with Bruce McLean in The Cut auditorium.
Working across a wide range of media, Bruce is a legend in multidisciplinary art constantly challenging art world hierarchies with a sharp wit and subtle
subversion. For his solo show in The Cut last year, Eileen worked with Bruce to produce a film about his extensive body of work and they have just completed a second film based on Bruce's text work, Minimal Invisible Missing.
Tickets for Bruce's talk and five other evening presentations at The Cut are £5.00.
Carol Lawrence invites us to
Bill Pryde invites us to
His one day residency at The Lookout on 15th July.
The Art of Screen Printing, ideas, methods and spontaneity 10.30 - 7pm
If you arrive at about 6pm Bill might be serving drinks!
Fran Crowe invites us to
The Museum of Beyond
An imaginary museum of the future, created by Suffolk artist and Arts Club member, Fran Crowe, is coming for the summer to Thorpeness Village Stores.
Fran’s installation, the Museum of Beyond, sees the present through future eyes. Playful but with a serious message, the museum imagines what future generations might make of all the plastic we use - and what they will perhaps think about us.
Thorpeness Village Stores is re-opening for the summer as a pop-up shop with a gallery space featuring the Museum of Beyond. It will be open every morning from mid-July until the end of September.
Fran will also be opening the museum on occasional afternoons on an ad hoc basis and would love to see you there.
For more details, including dates, see www.museumofbeyond.org/news or contact fran@museumofbeyond.org.
Devi Singh invites us to
Summary / Concept - Mixed exhibition of works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists.
This is Britten Pears Arts’ most ambitious summer exhibition of work by more than one hundred contemporary artists.
Every July and August, Snape Maltings welcomes many tens of thousands of visitors to enjoy music, shopping, eating and the unrivalled natural landscape. One of our founders, Peter Pears, was a major collector of art, and BPA has a long history of public and commercial exhibitions, but this might be the largest show yet.
All works are for sale, and with arts funding more challenging than ever, BPA’s commission will help to fund the charity’s cultural activities.
Locations : Concert Hall Foyer, Building 21 (formerly known as Stable Block), Winch Gallery (formerly known as the Concert Hall Gallery), the Dovecote Studio and the lawns at Snape Maltings.
This selling exhibition begins on 20th July - 1st September 2024
Opening / Private View: 20th July 2024
Caroline Mackintosh invites us to
John Lidster invites us to
Helen Atkinson Wood invites us to
Celebrate 25 years of Theatre in the Forest with their performance of Midsummer Nights Dream at Sutton Hoo. From 26th July. Tickets from boxoffice@redrosechain.com
Following their success at The INK Festival, two radio plays by the award winning Jan Etherington “Conversations From A Long Marriage” - performed by Helen Atkinson Wood and Angus Deayton - on July 26th and “The S.H.I.T. Club on July 28th are both at The Latitude Festival.
Sophie Crockett invites us to
Sophie Crockett invites us to Suffolk Harvest at Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh from 25th - 30th July.
Following their successful joint show in Aldeburgh last October, Sophie and Mike Crockett have organised a summer show that brings together local Suffolk artists. All welcome. See Sophie’s website for more details www.sdcrockett.co.uk
Nadia Lasserson invites us to
Aldeburgh Gallery invites us to
The Aldeburgh Gallery has a full programme of exhibitions during July
4th July - 10th July Julie Collins
11th July - 24th July Bolam Style
25th July - 31st July Tony Hatt
The Aldeburgh Gallery, 143 High Street, Aldeburgh. For more information www.aldeburghgallery.co.uk
The violinist, Daniel Pioro, played one to one with a few lucky people inside the Lookout as a star attraction of the Aldeburgh Festival.
A selection of last Month’s happenings!
A wonderfully successful Arts Club lunch in Hilary Garners barn
Evening in the beautiful house and gardens of Claire Lyth and Roderick Orr-Ewing
Still Alive in the Universe - curated by Eileen Haring Woods
The Art of Music included works by Shaun Caton and Timothy Sawyer Shepard
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