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art&aBoUT<br />
Blue Drift (detail) by Meryl stringell<br />
For many people Artwave is the social and<br />
cultural social event of the year, as artists<br />
throughout the district, and particularly in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, open their home and studio doors to<br />
punters, exhibiting a wide variety of genres in a<br />
wide variety of settings. The festival takes pace<br />
over three c<strong>on</strong>secutive weekends – Aug<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>t Bank<br />
Holiday, September 4th-5th and September 11th-<br />
12th, though some venues open throughout the<br />
three-week period.<br />
Our advice is to pick up a brochure from the<br />
Tourist Informati<strong>on</strong> Office (and other venues),<br />
check out the artists or groups you like the look<br />
of, and track a course from place to place. In<br />
many venues you’ll be offered a cup of tea or a<br />
glass of wine as you look at the art. Some find<br />
the artists’ interior design as interesting as their<br />
artworks.<br />
We d<strong>on</strong>’t, obvio<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>ly, have enough space in this<br />
slot to menti<strong>on</strong> every exhibiti<strong>on</strong>, but we can<br />
highlight some that have caught our eye; having<br />
foc<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>sed <strong>on</strong> events taking place outside <strong>Lewes</strong> in<br />
the Aug<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>t editi<strong>on</strong>, here we’ll take a look at stuff<br />
going <strong>on</strong> in town.<br />
When people want to draw a stereotypical image<br />
of an artist, they often portray an oil painter<br />
in fr<strong>on</strong>t of a canvas in a field, with a palette in<br />
his hand. Tom Benjamin, though we’ve never<br />
seen him in a beret, spends a lot of time in this<br />
situati<strong>on</strong>, and he is <strong>on</strong>e of four artists in the<br />
Foundry Gallery’s exciting exhibiti<strong>on</strong> Outside<br />
w w w. V I VA l E w E s . C o M<br />
(throughout the Festival but closed M<strong>on</strong>days<br />
and Tuesday). Tom’s impressi<strong>on</strong>istic oils are<br />
<strong>on</strong> show al<strong>on</strong>gside works by Haydn Cottam,<br />
Andrew Fitchett and Gavin Lockheart. All the<br />
paintings display the artists’ differing approaches<br />
to landscape. All this in the Foundry wareho<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>e,<br />
<strong>on</strong>ce an integral part of the Phoenix Ir<strong>on</strong>works.<br />
Round the corner is another wareho<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>e-cumgallery-cum-studio<br />
space, and much more<br />
besides. We featured the restaurant of the Café<br />
Des Artistes (10 Phoenix Place) last m<strong>on</strong>th:<br />
throughout Artwave the space will be displaying<br />
an exhibiti<strong>on</strong> of artists, some of whom <str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>e a nook<br />
or cranny of the wareho<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>e to create their art.<br />
They’re throwing an opening party <strong>on</strong> Aug<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>t<br />
28th, and are open everyday till the 11th: artists<br />
included in the show, called Bewitched, are<br />
photographers Martin Gayford and Graham<br />
Carlow, and painters/sculptors Christian<br />
Thomps<strong>on</strong> and rising R<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>sian star Svetlana<br />
K-Lie –whose work can also be seen in Renwick<br />
Clarke. For informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> other events, ph<strong>on</strong>e<br />
Christian <strong>on</strong> 08882986350.<br />
St Anne’s Gallery, of course, has prepared a<br />
show from its high-level repertoire of locallybased<br />
artists, and the likes of Nick Bodimeade,<br />
Lucia Corrigan, Kate Hall, Julia Hamilt<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Mark Johnst<strong>on</strong>, and Jo Lamb will be<br />
represented in <strong>on</strong>e of the m<str<strong>on</strong>g>us</str<strong>on</strong>g>t-see stop-offs for<br />
any art trailist, at the smart gallery <strong>on</strong> the High<br />
Street, opposite Shelleys. (C<strong>on</strong>tinued overleaf...)<br />
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