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alex<br />
bamford<br />
Pelham House<br />
We are enthralled by Alex<br />
Bamford’s long exposure<br />
photographs, which seem to<br />
turn even the most familiar<br />
Sussex land and seascapes<br />
into visions of another world.<br />
Shooting mostly at night by<br />
the light of a full moon, Alex<br />
exposes for periods of three<br />
to ten minutes. His favourite<br />
subjects include capturing<br />
movement and abstraction<br />
with artificial light and soft<br />
seas interrupted by hard,<br />
architectural lines. Also check<br />
out the work of two playful<br />
visual storytellers: paintings<br />
with a flash of Dubuffet by John<br />
Harmer and characterful papier<br />
mâché sculptures by Emily<br />
Warren. Aug 25th-4th Oct<br />
maria<br />
rivens<br />
Print Room<br />
Although the Print Room<br />
on North Street isn’t strictly<br />
a gallery, they do have some<br />
high-calibre graphic artists<br />
exhibiting, often working in<br />
print-based media and collage.<br />
Throughout August it’s the<br />
turn of Maria Rivens, who<br />
creates detailed, fantastical<br />
narratives from found images<br />
gleaned from a cornucopia of<br />
sources. Rivens, who trained in<br />
3D design at Brighton in the<br />
eighties, is also a professional<br />
jeweller, and manages to inject<br />
depth into paper collage. Hers is<br />
a hallucinatory dreamworld that<br />
alternates between technicolour<br />
nightmare and high camp. We<br />
like it a lot.<br />
Aug <strong>10</strong>th-11th Sep<br />
george<br />
robertson<br />
A r t & A B O U t<br />
Hop Gallery<br />
George Robertson’s remarkable<br />
oil paintings show the<br />
mysterious details hidden in<br />
the Sussex landscape. Taking a<br />
close eye to the edges, he reveals<br />
abstract forms and elegant lines<br />
among simple hedgerows. Also<br />
at the Hop during Aug is the<br />
finale of the Open Exhibition of<br />
works by 60 Sussex artists (until<br />
Aug 7th), and a solo show by<br />
last month’s cover artist Nick<br />
Orsborn. Like Maria Rivens,<br />
Orsborn works equally well<br />
as a jeweller and watercolour<br />
artist. In his signature, almost<br />
impossibly cheerful palette,<br />
Orsborn’s dances, holidays,<br />
parades and parties tell stories<br />
infused with light humour.<br />
Aug 13th-21st & 27th-8th Sep<br />
LOOK OUT FOR: Group Show 12th-26th Aug and Landscapes and Flowers by Colin Merrin and<br />
Sarah Burges, 27th-11th Sep, at Lansdown Gallery. For more Artwave, try Ian Owings’ dramatic skies<br />
at the Old Bakehouse, Malling Street, and Upper Lodge, Ringmer for ‘6 Artists and an Orchard’.
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