May 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
Arts Club Member Diana Huntingford
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
May Day Monthly Arts Club Lunch, this Wednesday 1st May 1pm at Diana Huntingford’s house!
The monthly Arts Club lunch this Wednesday 1st May is being kindly hosted by Diana Huntingford (assisted by Susie Joyce) at Diana’s house, The Casino, 4, Thellussan Lodge, Aldeburgh IP15 5DT. Pl RSVP to diana.huntingford@btinternet.com or ring her on 07851 761449. Diana lives opposite Aldeburgh church (where you can park) on Victoria Road and she will give you precise directions when you contact her. Please bring food and drink to share!
Let’s meet, mingle and collaborate this month!
Love Caroline xx
P.S Introducing a new benefit of Arts Club membership! I am offering each Member the opportunity to use the Lookout as a studio for your own one day residency. Let me know if you are interested and we will fix a date for you. First come first served! Email me for more details
Please note that The Arts Club lunch in June on Wednesday 5th June is kindly hosted by Hilary Garner in her beautiful barn on the edge of the village of Holton near Halesworth. Hilary is an artist and has also restored the barn into a wonderful space for hire for art exhibitions and workshops, suppers, performances, wine tastings, and other interesting and creative events. At our lunch we will be able to view her current exhibition - several members of Suffolk Open Studios have rented the barn and we will be able to view their work.
If you would like to come, please RSVP to me and I will send you the address. As usual there is no charge and we all bring food and drink to share.
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
This bulletin highlights a selection of art happenings this month in and around Suffolk. You can also read this on our website
Spring Garden Barbecue
Also, very excitingly, Claire Lyth and Roderick Ore-Ewing very kindly invite us for a bbq party at their fascinating Suffolk home and beautiful gardens on Thursday 30 May starts at 6pm. Claire and Roderick are providing salads and breads so please bring sausages or whatever you would like to go on the barbq. Please bring drinks to share.
Please RSVP to me. They live near Blythburgh and I will email you their address and directions.
Claire Lyth
Claire has designed set and costumes for about 300 shows. This incudes 27 Shakespeares and 62 premières. Designs range from Morecambe Pier to the Old Vic. There was a 'Royal Hunt of the Sun' in a football stadium in Hong Kong, and a 'My Fair Lady' in Danish. She has also worked in the States, Germany, Norway, Vienna and Beirut. Claire designed Steve Coogan's one man show and the theatre tour of 'Goodness Gracious Me. She also enjoys designing Interiors and Gardens. She is married to Roderick who she met when designing 'Cabaret'. She particularly enjoyed designing their garden and barn in Blythburgh.
Roderick Orr-Ewing
Roderick started of life in the theatre as a stage manager and production manager. He then moved on to film and video production and finally became a builder working mostly on refurbishing interiors in London, often working with Claire. He is married to Claire and together they bought Mill End 22 years ago and have lived there permanently for the last 12 years.
THE ARTS CLUB OPEN
16 August - 1 September at the Lookout
Following last years success we are again holding The Arts Club Open in August this year. This fabulous exhibition runs from Friday 16th August - Sunday 1 September (which includes the Carnival weekend) all works will be for sale.
All paid-up members are entitled to show one picture (or poem, piece of writing, performance or anything else creative) of their choice during this exhibition - there is no charge. More details soon but please email me asap if you would like to be part of it.
Member Spotlight Reet Gilday
Reet Gilday - Potter and Printer. Aldeburgh, reetgilday@gmail.com
Member Spotlight Pat Ward
I’m a local who grew up in Aldeburgh and have written books on my memories. I’ve also written a childrens book, with illustrations by Theronda Hoffman. I am currently writing new material.
I produce a yearly calendar named Treasures and Pleasures of Aldeburgh through the year. I’m on my 7th calendar at present, and the profits go to the Aldeburgh carnival fund. Photo showing myself dressed in an old carnival outfit selling the calendars. I also have a variety show, named The Pearlies, and perform in care homes etc in the local community, with a male singer and we do this voluntarily. You can contact me on pat.a.ward@hotmail.co.uk
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Monica Petzal invites us to
Flipside in Collaboration with Printroom studio presents
Dr John-Paul Stonard – The CREATION ART TALKS
‘The Life and Afterlife of Art’
The Creation Art Talks 2024 offer a captivating voyage through the history of art, reaching back to the earliest images made by our ancestors, tracing the story through to the present day. These are weekly talks each Wednesday evening at 7pm for 7.30pm
For further details click here
Roger Hardy invites us to
Roger will be exhibiting at Art for Cure in Ballroom Arts Aldeburgh 3rd - 7th May
Click here for details www.artforcure.org.uk
Emily Richardson invites us to
Art Station Film
Art Station Film is delighted to be screening a selection of artists’ films by Jack Wormell, Terry Bond, Karen Densham and Kerry Baldry. With a focus on everyday observations and interventions these filmmakers reveal the wondrous and humorous in the familiar and ordinary. I hope you can join us! Suggested donation to The Art Station £10 but just pay what you can and we look forward to seeing you there.
Friday 3rd May, The Old Bank, Saxmundham, IP17 1EL 7pm
Poets of East Anglia invite us to
Gary Rowland invites us to
A gentle reminder of our fantastic event on Friday May 10. James and Travis will perform for us and Kate’s exhibition will be ready for the first viewing.
Exciting stuff - and tickets are selling well, so get in quick! If you have already bought tickets, sorry to bother you, and look forward to seeing you on THE NIGHT!
Click here for tickets: https://giltedge.eventbrite.co.uk
Britten Pears Arts invites us to
Jelly Green and Lily Hunter Green: Conflagration
An exhibition of painting and sound documenting “...the fierce forces that are unleashed when the planet’s forests are pushed over the edge”.
Click here for full details www.brittenpearsarts.org/exhibitions/conflagration
Saturday 18 May – Sunday 23 June
A fabulous collaboration between two of our members: Caro Halford and Degard invite us to
‘Mary Moser’s Friends on Tour’ at Visionary Brit Museum, O/s British Museum, Grt Russell St, London WC1B 3DA,
Closing party Saturday 11th May 11am with performance by Caro Halford. Arts Club members lets all go to this!
Caro / Mary performance of a 1950’s woman is transformed into a talking cupboard. This is a state between lucidity and madness, which we uncomfortably watch and desire to reach by Ann’Own. Duration 6:58 on a continuous loop. An Enamel painted cabinet with an upholstered leather cord attached to the performer.
Click here for Caro Halford www.carohalford.com/index.html Click here for Degard www.visionarybritmuseum.co.uk/
Nadia Lasserson invites us to
Tessa Newcomb invites us to
“Wide skies, small incidents, odd cats and dogs…
The excitement of seeing a wasp spider…
I’ve been out on the marshes and painting the great and the small” – Tessa Newcomb
Click here for more details www.brittenpearsarts.org/exhibitions/i-like-going-to-bed-thinking-about-my-paintings
Theronda Hoffman invites us to
Theronda Hoffman solo exhibition in the Aldeburgh Baptist Church
25 May - 22 June 2024 10am till 5pm Monday to Saturday
The theme is: Coastal Aldeburgh Click here for her website www.kesgravearts.co.uk/index.html
Susan Brinkhurst invites us to participate in a themed outdoor exhibition over the Festival weekend as part of
The First Light Festival - celebrating the Summer Solstice, takes place in Lowestoft. Every year we invite artists to take part in a themed outdoor exhibition over the Festival weekend.
This year we would like to extend our invitation to The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach artists.
The festival theme is ‘Weather Vanes & Cardinal Points’ which we hope is a broad enough brief to spark a great variety of ideas and new works from all the artists invited to take part.
Thousands of visitors pass through the Gardens over the two days of the festival so your work will be widely seen and discussed.
Keep in mind that the work will be shown outdoors and needs to survive the weather (we have had the odd drop of rain in the past) and consider carefully how the piece will be positioned and fixed for display. The work can be mounted on wooden stakes or metal poles in the ground or hung from the trees (but not fixed to them with nails or screws). Works laying flat on the ground might pose a trip hazard so let us know if that’s what you’re planning and we can discuss the problem and a solution.
Delivery of artwork to the Gardens will be on the 18th June for the Festival weekend (22nd-23rd).
Your artwork remains your property and no commission is taken from any sales that result from the ‘Weather Vanes & Cardinal Points’ exhibition.
As with last year we are happy to offer £75 to each artist towards the cost of materials.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you’d like to take part so we can prepare the contributor’s list.
Susan Brinkhurst
Issam Kourbaj invites us to join him on a tour of his exhibition at Kettles Yard
Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettles Yard Cambridge
The exhibition continues until 26 May 2024, 11am – 5pm
Thursday 23rd May at 1pm Issam will take members of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach on a tour of his exhibition. Please email me ASAP if you would like to join us!
Since 2011 Issam Kourbaj’s artwork has responded to the ongoing conflict in Syria, and reflects on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage. This exhibition presents key works from this period alongside a new series which explores themes of loss, memory and renewal.
Book Now FREE, come along
Anne Desmet RA invites us to
I’ve been working towards this exhibition for about a year now. It will be the first ever solo exhibition at this venue by a woman artist and it will span over three decades of my documentation of London in wood engravings and mixed-media printed collages. It will feature 150 works including 41 brand new London-themed kaleidoscopic prints alongside some of my engraved woodblocks and tools. The works aim to suggest time and change, depicting the evolution of urban landscapes - from Ancient Rome to London.
The Guildhall Art Gallery (next door to London's historic Guildhall) has an unrivalled permanent collection of London-themed works to which it has just added a large razor-shell collage of mine: Fires of London. It also houses the archaeological remains of London’s Ancient Roman amphitheatre which lie, available to visit, directly beneath the gallery’s floors. In this context, it is the perfect place for me to show my work.
Save the date! Paul Spencer invites us to
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
Below: Sophie Sophia’s performance art on the beach as part of my 35th anniversary of being an art dealer. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate including Sir Humphrey Burton (left) who together with Diana Quick, is Patron of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach.
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