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Summer 2012
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Harold Mockford
Eric Ravilious

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Eastbourne is no longer the epitome of an English seaside retirement destination. Our elegant
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their children to attend the excellent private schools in Eastbourne
preferring their children to live at home rather than board. Also,
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Cultural Quarterly
Summer 2012
Contents
4 Downland Man
CQ speaks to local artist Harold
Mockford about his exhibition
at Towner.
8 Shaping Places
CQ talks to Denis Healey about
his photography exhibition at
the Coach House Gallery.
10 A Life In Pictures
A Friends of the Towner event
will explore the life and work of
artist Eric Ravilious.
12 Iconic Cliffhanger
Artist Richard Wilson speaks to
CQ about how cinematic gold
inspired his latest installation.
14 Playing with Picasso
Picasso At Play will expose the
artist’s playful side at Farley’s
Farm House.
16 A Shared Obsession
Artists Cat Ingrams and Natalie
Martin explain the nature of
Architexture to CQ.
20 At the Edge
CQ asks collections curator
Sanna Moore about the Towner
Collection’s latest acquisitions.
22 Wave of Creativity
Galleries and studios throughout
the Lewes District will open up
for the Artwave festival.
23 Caribbean Triangle
CQ speaks to Roy Marsden
and Jenny Seagrove about
Noel Coward’s rediscovered
play Volcano.
24 Opera by the Sea
Local singer Anastasia Witts
explains her brainchild
OperaCoast to CQ.
25 Light Inspiration
CQ asks architect Darren Kent
why he supports and displays
the work of local artists.
27 Demonstrating the Craft
Sussex Guild will hold its
annual Contemporary Craft
Show at Michelham Priory.
28 Eastbourne Presents…
Information on this season’s
events in Eastbourne.
30 Presenting For
Your Enjoyment…
A roundup of amateur
dramatic productions
in Eastbourne.
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Downland Man
CQ speaks to local artist Harold Mockford, whose landscapes
will form a major exhibition at Towner, about his connections
to the South Downs and the Towner Collection.
Towner will exhibit paintings
by Harold Mockford on July
14–September 30 to celebrate
the local artist’s eightieth
birthday. Harold has lived in
East Sussex for most of his
life, and his work focuses on
landscapes and seascapes
around the South Downs.
He said: “I love the landscape
around here, the Sussex
landscape and the Downs in
particular. I suppose that was
fired by the fact that, during the
war, we used to be evacuated
and then we’d come back to
Eastbourne. I always knew I
was home when I saw the
Downs from the train, Butts
Brow in particular – I saw that
particular clump of trees on the
Downs and I knew that was
home. And I suppose the
landscape has always been
important to me in that sense,
having had to go away during
the war and coming back.
“I do like walking on the
Downs, although I can’t say
that I do an awful lot of it now.
Sally, one of my daughters,
loves walking on the Downs,
we’d go together often. And
Simon, one of my sons, is a
Downs Ranger in West Sussex
near Chichester, so we’re
Downland people.”
Harold began his artistic
career at an early age.
He said: “It’s always been a
hobby. It was the only thing at
school I was any good at or had
any talent for. One particular
teacher Ms Percy was very
encouraging and I used to
make a little bit of money by
selling pictures of Spitfires to
the boys in the playground –
always the same view of a
Spitfire, a three quarter view
with guns blazing, and a
Messerschmitt going down,
because it was always on the
winning side!”
Harold was also encouraged
early in his artistic career by
William Gear, the abstract
Harold Mockford
Towner
July 14–September 30
(Above)
Eastbourne.
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Downland Man
artist who was curator at the
Towner Art Gallery in
1958–1964.
Harold said: “William Gear
was really very encouraging
and I suppose he gave me a
certain belief in myself that
maybe I could paint. He gave
me my first exhibition at the
Towner Art Gallery, of which
he was then curator, fifty-three
years ago. At the time that my
first painting was chosen for
the Towner Collection, I was
pleased to say the least. It was a
realisation that maybe,
according to someone who
knew something about
painting, I could paint.”
Despite having several
significant mentors during his
career, and having 14 of his
paintings included in the
Towner Collection, Harold is
still modest about his talent
and success.
He said: “I was never a
professional; I was never able to
make a living at painting. We
had five children so we had
quite a big commitment. I was
a dental technician and used
to paint of an evening
and weekends.
“But I was encouraged by a
very remarkable lady Elizabeth
Andrews. She used to live in St
Ives and then she moved back
to Eastbourne and had a big
house in Enys Road with a
very fine studio right at the top
of the house, which she let
me use.
“She was a very good artist
herself and had paintings in the
Towner Collection. There were
three old ladies that lived
together in Enys Road and all
three of them painted. They
were cultured ladies, they
loved the arts, especially the
visual. There were paintings all
over the house, quite an
Aladdin’s cave.
“I’ve produced hundreds of
paintings, but I’ve had a lot of
encouragement from people,
like William Gear and
Elizabeth Andrews, and in
particular my dear wife
Margaret. It’s so much part of
my life really; I don’t think I’ve
ever been ambitious.
“There are people who are
interested in what I do. There’s
a particular lady who comes
over fairly frequently, always
looking at my work or buying
it. She’s a collector who lives in
Hastings and she has a houseful
of paintings, not just mine.
There’ve always been people
like that.
“I don’t paint so much now;
don’t ask me why – I’m getting
old, or retiring, or something!”
(Left)
Belle Tout.
(Below)
When The Lights Come On.
“I love the landscape around here, the Sussex
landscape and the Downs in particular.”
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Shaping Places
CQ talks to Denis Healey about his photography
exhibition People & Places at Alfriston’s new art
space the Coach House Gallery.
Andrew Savile opened the
Coach House Gallery in
Alfriston in order to support
local creative talent. That
local talent turned out to
include The Right Honourable
Lord Denis Healey, former
deputy leader of the Labour
party, whose photography
will be on display at the
gallery on June 4–28 to raise
funds for the Chaseley Trust.
The Chaseley Trust supports
people with severe physical
disabilities through residential,
respite and day care, and
multidisciplinary therapy
assessments, treatments and
rehabilitation.
Lord Healey said: “I was
invited by the director of the
Coach House Gallery Andrew
Saville to exhibit within my
local community in Alfriston.
The exhibition is called People
& Places and will include 45 to
50 images from the 1950s to
2000s taken in different
locations all over the world
throughout my life and career.
“I believe that places shape
the people and people shape
the places. Photography can
capture the decisive moment
and critical place, producing a
moment in time and space in
an artistically pleasant and
meaningful way.
“My favourite is Girl In
Cyprus. I shot this as I was
passing by during my visit there
in the 1960s as defence
secretary. The composition is
well balanced with a triangle of
green in the middle, the blue
hue of the girl’s shirt repeated
almost perfectly in the
background.”
Andrew opened the Coach
House Gallery in December.
The curatorial team includes
Anne Castano, who will curate
this exhibition, Alexandra Othen
and Laura Bedford-Turner.
Andrew said: “You see a huge
number of struggling artists and
few opportunities in tiny
galleries, as they are very
selective about who to support.
We opened the gallery primarily
to support local and new talent
without a sales outlet for two to
four week periods, but also to
generate footfall by offering an
ever changing and vibrant use of
the building. We already offer
studio space and use of the
gallery for events and,
ultimately, we want to offer
B&B and a potential hub for the
National Park.
“I invited Lord Healey to
exhibit as he’s a well-known
local and interesting character
who can draw footfall to the
new space and grow its
awareness. As well as
supporting what may be his
final exhibition, we aim to raise
money for the Chaseley Trust.”
Lord Healey is considering
donating the 52,000
photographs he has amassed to
Sussex University.
People & Places
Coach House Gallery
June 4–28
(Above)
Denis Healey.
Photo: Paul Grover.
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A Life In Pictures
On September 2 1942, the life of Eastbourne’s most famous
artist Eric Ravilious was cut tragically short when his aircraft was
lost off Iceland. A Life In Pictures will explore his life and work.
Friends of The Towner will
present a special event at the
Birley Centre on September 2
to mark the seventieth
anniversary of the
disappearance of artist Eric
Ravilious. Dr Alan Powers,
professor in architecture and
cultural history at the
University of Greenwich, and
James Russell, author of
Ravilious In Pictures, will
present A Life In Pictures
exploring Ravilious’ works.
Geoffrey Mantle at the Friends
of the Towner said: “This should
be an enthralling afternoon built
around a lavishly illustrated
digital presentation that will
include archive photographs and
scrapbook pages, plus other
material, much of it unpublished
and rarely seen.”
In 1939, Eric Ravilious, one
of Eastbourne’s most famous
artists, became an official war
artist. He spent several months
learning how to sketch from
the air and was excited to
explore the Arctic landscape
and coast. He produced
numerous watercolours and a
set of lithographs on a range of
war subjects.
In September 1942, he was
posted to Kalderdarnes on the
south coast of Iceland. Whilst
flying a reconnaissance mission
in very bad weather, he and
four airmen disappeared.
Ravilious was only 39 years old
when he died and was one of
only three British war artists to
be killed on active service
during World War II.
The Towner Collection has
one of the largest numbers of
Ravilious’ works in Britain.
Ravilious experimented in
various media and, early in his
career, was particularly successful
in wood engraving. He produced
a considerable body of work,
including murals, watercolours,
designs for Wedgewood pottery,
glass and furniture, wood
engravings, and lithographs for
book illustrations. By the end of
the 1930s, he had come to regard
watercolour landscape painting
as his most important art form.
Geoffrey said: “Ravilious
excelled in identifying patterns
and linear harmonies to
present in his paintings.
His colouring was generally
restrained and pallid.
“People seldom appear in his
paintings, but one gets the
impression that someone has
just left a scene or is about to
appear. When they do appear,
they’re generally faceless and
depersonalised. He tended to
follow the trend of the 1930s,
which was to focus on places
rather than people. There is a
unique sense of uneasy
isolation about many of the
scenes he painted.”
Mainstone Press will also be
at the event offering books on
Ravilious’ work and limited
edition prints.
A Life In Pictures
Birley Centre
September 2
(Top)
Interior At Furlongs.
© Estate of Eric Ravilious.
(Above)
Eric Ravilious.
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Iconic Cliffhanger
Let’s balance a rocking coach on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion
and get Eddie Izzard to sponsor it... Turner Prize-nominated sculptor
Richard Wilson talks to CQ about how cinematic gold and London
2012 inspired his latest installation.
As cliffhangers go, you
would be hard pushed to
find a more famous, more
exhilarating and more literal
cliffhanger than the finale to
The Italian Job (1969). The
coach precariously rocking
on a cliff edge, balanced by
the gold robbers at one end
and the gold at the other,
and Michael Caine’s
infamous line, “Hang on a
minute lads, I’ve got a great
idea...”, epitomises
Englishness in an iconic
cinematic moment.
Turner Prize-nominated
sculptor Richard Wilson has
been asked to create a rooftop
installation for the De La Warr
Pavilion (DLWP) in Bexhill on
sea and was inspired by the
film. Known for making
installations that respond to
their location, Richard works
with the architecture but
tampers with it to the extreme.
He said: “I knew the DLWP
quite well. I thought about how
you look at the sea and the sky
and the edge of the horizon. I
looked at the architecture of
the building and its edges.”
The installation will be part
of the London 2012 Festival, a
nationwide celebration of the
world’s leading artists, on June
21–September 9. Richard was
inspired to recreate cinematic
gold by creating a replica red,
white and blue coach and
balancing it on the edge of the
roof of the De La Warr
Pavilion, rocking back and
forth precariously.
Richard said: “It seemed
appropriate for a few reasons.
The film is an iconic English
movie and the De La Warr
Pavilion is an iconic building. In
terms of reproducing that
cinematic moment, it’s not just
about sculptural daring, it’s a
metaphor about absolute limits.
I noticed the connection to
athletes, poised in the starting
block, facing winning or losing.
“As I thought about the film
and how the robbers were
‘going for gold’, again I
immediately thought about
athletes. The fact that the coach
is red, white and blue in the
movie also made it a symbolic
flag for team GB.”
Eddie Izzard, honorary
patron of DLWP and a huge
fan of The Italian Job, is the
principal sponsor of the
installation. With additional
funding from the Arts Council
England and the Henry Moore
Foundation, MDM Props Ltd in
London, Constant Engineers
and Richard have put the
project together with assistance
from DLWP staff.
Richard said: “It will be part
of the horizon for people
arriving in Bexhill. It will depict
the Englishness of the south
coast, nudging and hinting to
the Olympics without
overstatement.”
Hang On A Minute Lads,
I’ve Got A Great Idea...
De La Warr Pavilion
July 7–October 1
(Above)
A maquette of the
installation, shown at the
Royal Academy last year.
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Playing with Picasso
Farley Farm House’s exhibition Picasso At Play
will expose the artist’s playful side through
photos from the Lee Miller Archive.
Farley Farm House in
Muddles Green near Lewes
will curate two exhibitions on
May 29–July 26 intended to
give insight into the lives and
friendship of artists Pablo
Picasso and Roland Penrose.
Touring exhibition Picasso
At Play will include a series of
photographs taken when artist
Pablo Picasso stayed at the
farmhouse as a guest of
photographer Lee Miller and
Roland Penrose in 1950,
the majority of which were
taken by Lee Miller herself.
Roland Penrose’s Surrealist
Camera will run at the same
time and show previously
unknown photography by the
surrealist artist.
Picasso At Play will also be
shown as part of the Artwave
festival at the Hibbert Room in
Lewes on August 25–27, and will
be available for hire by schools,
colleges and galleries via Farleys
Yard Trust. Farleys Yard Trust is
an arts and education registered
charity that seeks to enable
access by schools, colleges and
communities to the artistic
heritage of the surrealist
movement focused on Farley
Farm House. Around 30
volunteers take exhibits from the
Lee Miller Archive and the
Roland Penrose Collection, both
housed at Farley Farm House,
into schools to inspire children
and their work.
Ian Chance, director of the
Farleys Yard Trust, said: “One of
Picasso’s most famous sayings is
the key to this exhibition and
shows how one of the greatest
artists of our age lived out his
own words when he stated,
“Every child is an artist. The
problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up.” We all
enjoy having fun, no less
Picasso, and curating the Picasso
At Play exhibition for Farleys
Yard Trust with Antony Penrose
and colleagues at Farley Farm
House has resulted in an
immensely enjoyable exhibition.
“Picasso At Play is a marked
departure from the themes of
previous exhibitions. Here the
artist is seen as a brilliant mimic
and as full of tricks as a clown.
The exhibition shows Picasso
revealing the importance of
play in his life, even to the point
of presenting himself disguised
as a clown in his studio strewn
with creative ideas and filled
with marvellous works of art,
linking play and creativity in
his workplace.”
Running in parallel to the two
exhibitions this summer will be
an exhibition of sculptures by
Uckfield Community
Technology College art and
design students inspired by Farley
Farm House and surrealism. The
students’ work will be displayed
in the sculpture garden alongside
the permanent sculpture garden
collection during the Uckfield Art
Trail in July.
Picasso At Play
Farley Farm House
May 29–July 26
(Above)
The majority of the
photographs in Picasso At Play
were taken by Lee Miller.
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A Shared Obsession
Artists Cat Ingrams and Natalie Martin explain to CQ
the nature of Architexture, their first joint exhibition.
Despite their long friendship,
artists Natalie Martin and
Cat Ingrams haven’t
exhibited together until now.
Their show Architexture at
the Hop Gallery in Lewes
on June 23–July 5 will
explore their shared
obsession with architecture.
Cat said: “Natalie and I
studied sculpture together at
the University of Brighton and
have been firm friends ever
since. We’ve exhibited together
in group shows, so we know we
work well together. We’ve
closely followed the
development of each other’s
work and are always
exchanging ideas and
interesting routes of research,
so really it was inevitable that
we would exhibit together
given the right space.”
Both artists felt that the Hop
Gallery was the perfect locale
for their first joint exhibition.
Cat said: “The Hop Gallery is
ideal for us, being a beautifully
presented space of exactly the
right size – my work is very
small and needs an intimate but
preferably pristine environment.
Also, it’s ideally located, as
Natalie lives in Brighton, I’m
based in Eastbourne, and
Lewes is eminently accessible
from London.”
Natalie added: “It has a
lovely atmosphere and is
formal but without feeling
clinical. Being that architecture
is central to both our work, it
was important to find
somewhere that could be part
of our exhibition, rather than
just a space to hang the work.
I think, in the end, we both just
felt very comfortable there,
which is important when
something as personal as art
is involved.”
In Architexture, Cat and
Natalie will examine
architecture, language,
atmospheres and surfaces
through painting, sculpture,
Architexture
Hop Gallery
June 23–July 5
(Above left)
Haunt by Cat Ingrams.
(Above right)
There’s No Harm In It Really
by Natalie Martin.
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A Shared Obsession
printmaking and drawing.
Cat said: “Many artists and
thinkers have noted the
uncommon power that images
of buildings have and there has
been quite a lot written
recently about the fascination
with ruins. The power of
architectural imagery is not
only symbolic though – you
have only to think of the real
anxiety caused by a dark,
narrow corridor or the uplift
of a cathedral to know that the
configuration of built space,
together with the lighting
conditions and surface textures,
have a very immediate
visceral effect.
“Over the past nine years,
will resonate well in the
environment of Natalie’s
paintings. I’m also showing
some of my prints. I’ve been a
member of Lewes Printmakers
the idea of trying to capture
something so transitory – by
the time I’ve finished painting
it, it’s already different.
“I’m increasing drawn to
involve narrative and fiction in
my work, especially fairytales,
as the kind of playful scary
stories we are told as children
build the framework for how
we perceive the physical world
around us as adults. I first
noticed when I started painting
night-time scenes of lit
windows that almost everyone
had some story about looking
in the windows as a child, or
something their grandma told
them about what goes on
behind the curtains of
(Left)
Ascension III by Natalie Martin.
(Below)
Close Thing by Cat Ingrams.
“I like the idea of trying to capture something
so transitory – by the time I’ve finished
painting it, it’s already different.”
I’ve been making a series of
small constructed spaces,
which I call my boxes. They’re
designed to be peered into
in such a way that the viewer
no longer sees but feels the
space they’re actually in – and
what they do see is a very
different, symbolic and
evocative space.
“In Architexture, I’ll present
the latest set of boxes, as well as
some previous examples, as it’s
an opportunity to bring
together a body of work that
for some years now and find all
aspects of the printmaking
process amazingly energising.
Printmaking is incredibly fertile
ground for me and feeds back
into my sculptural work all
the time.
“Above all, I think that the
aim is for the visitor to
Architexture to come away
feeling that they have had a real
experience, that they’re not
quite the same as when they
walked in. To me, that must be
an ambition of every artist – to
get inside the viewer’s head and
heart and light a spark.”
Natalie’s work includes
narrative to help tell the story
she’s imagined when working
on her art.
She said: “From my
perspective, architecture,
language, narrative and
surfaces come from a very
fragile, intimate and yet public
place, and are subject to change
by the very natural forces that
they are trying to control. I like
darkened windows.
“Architecture is such an
everyday, mundane thing that,
when someone draws attention
to it in a painting or drawing or
print, we feel the need to tell a
story about it, to give it some
kind of significance, whether it
was there for the artist or not.
Personally, every painting has
significance or a story I’ve
imagined, but I think it’s less
important than the one the
viewer tells.
“I hope that visitors leave
with a sense of otherness, that
we’re able to transport them
momentarily to the places that
we see and feel that end up as
our work, that when they look
into one of Cat’s boxes or at
one of my paintings, really
they’re seeing through the
looking glass. The work in
this show will be a little
glimpse inside our heads, so
we hope they’ll know us and
themselves a little better for
the looking.”
18 Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012

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At the Edge
CQ talks to Towner’s exhibitions curator Sanna Moore
to find our more about the Towner Collection’s latest
acquisitions and the exhibition that will reveal them.
In 2007, Towner began to
think about the development
of the contemporary strand
of the Towner Collection and
has acquired four new
works with the help of Art
Fund International.
With Eastbourne’s position
at the end of England and the
edge of the South Downs
National Park as reference
points, the intention was to
collect work by artists that
explore ‘the edge in landscape’,
between land and sea, urban
and natural environments,
natural or constructed
frontiers and real and
artificial landscapes.
Sanna Moore, exhibitions
curator at Towner, said: “The
chosen works explore the
removal of barriers to travel
and communication, and
reference the horizon as a
symbol of escape or the limit
of perception.”
The new acquisitions will be
unveiled in the exhibition The
Edge In Landscape at Towner
on July 13–September 30. It will
comprise three film works –
Summer Camp by Yael
Bartana, My Westphalia Days
by Mario Garcia Torres, and
The Roar Of The Lions by
João Penalva – and three
paintings – Airmail Paintings by
Eugenio Dittborn.
Yael Bartana’s video and
sound installation Summer
Camp is presented in a
recreation of the structure in
which films, lectures and talks
were delivered in the Assembly
Hall in Israel’s early years.
Sanna said: “The film
documents the work of the
fourth summer camp
coordinated by the Israeli
Committee Against House
Demolitions, in which
Palestinians, Israelis and other
nationalities worked together
to build a house in a village
destroyed by the Israeli
authorities as part of their
(Above)
Summer Camp by
Yael Bartana, 2007.
20 Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012

At the Edge
The Edge In Landscape
Towner
July 13–September 30
withdrawal from the
Palestinian territories. As the
building’s reconstruction is
illegal, there is only a slight
chance it will remain, and
therefore its construction is
very much a symbol of
collective resistance.”
Mario Garcia Torres’ 16mm
film My Westphalia Days
reconstructs conceptual art
history. Conceptual artist
Michael Asher has presented a
commonplace caravan as an
artwork at the Sculpture Project
Munster since its inception in
1977 but, in 2007, the caravan
mysteriously disappeared and
was discovered four days later at
the edge of a forest on the
outskirts of the city.
Sanna said: “Garcia Torres
has proposed a fiction about
those missing days, filming a
30-year-old Mercedes Benz
stealing a caravan almost
identical to the one used by
Asher from the site where it
disappeared. The result is an
open ended, fragmentary road
movie that follows the
meandering path of the
caravan as the car pulls it
through busy streets, open
autobahns and quiet, rural
roads, before it’s abandoned
amidst the forests and
farmlands of Westphalia.”
João Penalva’s video
projection The Roar Of The
Lions was filmed in Berlin
during the winter of 2005 at the
centre of the frozen lake
Grunewaldsee. Known locally
as Dog Lake, it’s popular with
dog walkers and the sound of
barking resonates loudly,
captured by Penalva in the
work’s soundtrack.
Sanna said: “The piece could
almost be seen as the
documentary of a bucolic place
and its population of grownups,
children and pets at play at a
certain time on a certain day. But,
while the projected image
remains familiar, the narrator
leads the viewer to visualise other
images of other places, people
and sounds, and question how
much it takes for all that seems
familiar and safe to become
unknown and menacing.”
Eugenio Dittborn
silkscreens, paints,
photographically prints and
embroiders onto lightweight
fabric and then folds the
material for travel in cardboard
airmail envelopes to create her
Airmail Paintings.
Sanna said: “The itineraries of
each are written onto the
envelopes, which are displayed
along with the unfolded work,
making the journeys and
distances spanned and the
strategies used to communicate
them very much part of the
work. The subjects of the
Airmail Paintings also address
and make visible a variety of
experiences that are forgotten or
suppressed by official histories.”
Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012 21

Wave of Creativity
Galleries, studios, farmhouses and barns in towns and
villages all over the Lewes District will open their doors
for the Artwave Open House Festival this summer.
The Artwave Open House
Festival, a not-for-profit visual
arts festival coordinated by
Lewes District Council, will be
held on August 25–September
9. Originally established in
the 1980s as an art trail in
Lewes, the event has grown
to encompass the breadth of
the Lewes District, including
Ditchling, Firle and Chailey, as
well as the towns of Seaford,
Newhaven and Lewes.
Danielle Crane in tourism &
economic development at
Lewes District Council said:
“Artwave promotes local art
and creativity by encouraging
professional and amateur artists
and craftsmen to showcase
their work and introduce
residents and visitors to the
wealth of skill and talent within
the district. The 2012 open
house festival is set to be bigger
and better than ever, with over
120 venues featuring the work
of over 600 artists. The festival
will feature a variety of wellknown
local artists, and well as
many new participants, who
will welcome visitors into their
homes and studios throughout
the Lewes District.”
Several Lewes galleries will
be showcasing artwork during
the festival, including the Hop
Gallery in Castle Ditch Lane
and the Chalk Gallery in North
Street. Following a successful
festival last year, Jane Wateridge
and Lynn Warren will return to
the Hop Gallery with A Room
With A View, a new collection
of contemporary paintings
and sculpture.
The Chalk Gallery is run by
a collective of locally based
artists and features a range of
styles, from figurative work
and expressionist landscapes to
abstracts and sculpture, that is
refreshed every six weeks.
Every three weeks, one of
the group is highlighted as a
featured artist and, during this
year’s Artwave festival, that
artist will be where they are
given more wall space to
showcase their work.
Veronica van Eijk, chair of the
Chalk Gallery, said: “The current
featured artist is Frances Knight,
who constantly returns to the
subtle light and fascinating
abstract qualities of the Sussex
landscape. Our artists may all
have different inspirations and
styles, but they all share a
passion for creating quality art at
affordable prices, which makes
Chalk Gallery somewhere that’s
well worth a visit during the
Artwave festival.”
Artwave
Lewes District
August 25–September 9
(Clockwise from top)
Jane Wateridge at Hop Gallery.
Evolve by Lynn Warren.
Chalk Gallery artists Sue Collins,
Janice Thurston and Carolyn Kirkland.
22 Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012

Caribbean Triangle
Noel Coward’s newly rediscovered play Volcano
explores relationships, marriage, fidelity and
loyalty to define the pattern of human behaviour.
Volcano
Devonshire Park Theatre
June 25–30
(Above)
Jenny Seagrove.
The sultry, brooding
atmosphere of a Caribbean
island about to erupt will
suffuse Eastbourne in June
when Noel Coward’s newly
rediscovered play Volcano
comes to the Devonshire
Park Theatre.
Now in its first major
production, directed by Roy
Marsden and starring Jenny
Seagrove, the play sat in a draw
in Coward’s desk until his death.
Roy Marsden said: “Noel
Coward wrote the play in 1956
when he was living on Jamaica
and he placed it on a make
believe Pacific island called
Samolo. When Coward died,
the play had never been
performed; it was just
mouldering away in his desk.
His partner Graham Payn
approached me with it about
eight or nine years ago. Like all
of these things, it got put on the
back burner until Bill Kenwright
Ltd asked if I had any interesting
plays and I remembered it.”
The play’s main character
Adela Shelly, played by Jenny
Seagrove, is based on Coward’s
wealthy neighbour Blanche
Blackwell, whose son Chris
Blackwell discovered Bob Marley
and founded Island Records.
Roy said: “Coward had a
house on Jamaica called Firefly,
and just down the coast was
Goldeneye, which was Ian
Fleming’s place, and between
them lived Blanche Blackwell,
who was a big landowner.
Fleming was married to Anne
Rothermere and had a
passionate affair with Blanche
Blackwell. So you had that
terrible triangle and Coward
found that fascinating and wrote
the play about it. When Blanche
Blackwell heard about it, she
said, ‘if this play is ever
performed, I will never speak to
you again’, so that was another
reason why the play totally
disappeared below the horizon.”
In Volcano, Adela Shelly’s life
has stagnated following the
death of her husband until she
is seduced by the suave but
married Guy Littleton.
Jenny Seagrove said: “Adela is
hugely complex and that’s
always fascinating to play. She
married a native Samolon and
had an incredibly happy life
until he died and then life sort
of stopped. Then she’s fallen in
love with another man but she
knows, because he’s a rampant
womaniser, that if she gives in
their friendship will go, and
actually she values his
friendship as much as she
would like to make love to him.
“It’s a real exploration by
Coward into relationships,
marriage, fidelity, loyalty. Volcano
has got some funny moments in
it, but this is a very visceral play –
if people think they’re coming to
a light Noel Coward evening,
think again. It’s much more on
the dark side, like The Vortex.”
Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012 23

Opera by the Sea
Local singer Anastasia Witts explains her brainchild OperaCoast
to CQ and reveals her hopes for the workshop’s future.
In July, the Birley Centre will
host a concert to show the
results of the first OperaCoast
workshop for amateur and
upcoming professional
singers. OperaCoast is the
creation of local singer
Anastasia Witts, and is
intended to entice musical
visitors to Eastbourne.
Anastasia said: “The idea of
the OperaCoast summer
workshop was born out of my
love for music and for exciting
cultural holidays. East Sussex,
and Eastbourne in particular, is a
very special and beautiful place
that provides everything needed
for people to enjoy nature, the
sea and the sun, and to have a
very special musical experience.
“As I’m particularly
passionate about opera, I
wanted to give people who love
singing an opportunity to enjoy
their time away from the
pressures of everyday life and
combine it with wonderful
music making.”
Anastasia has arranged for
three distinguished tutors to
teach the workshop.
International conductor
Gregory Rose has particular
experience of romantic opera;
Susannah Waters had a
successful singing career before
dedicating herself to directing
and writing, and award-winning
pianist Nigel Foster has given
concerts all over the world.
The course will focus on
Verdi’s La Traviata, sung in
English, and participants are
guaranteed a part in the chorus,
with principals chosen by
audition.
Anastasia said: “The
workshop is designed for
upcoming professional singers
and passionate amateurs. The
only thing we expect from our
participants is to come to the
course having learnt the music
of the scenes we are going to
work on. And, as we’re
working on Verdi, it shouldn’t
be at all difficult. Verdi’s music,
once heard, is unforgettable.
His operas used to be sung by
excited audiences on the streets
straight after their premieres.”
The course, which starts on
July 20 at the Birley Centre, has
attracted a range of participants,
from local choral singers
without any opera experience to
young professionals on holiday
from Germany.
Anastasia said: “We’d like to
make OperaCoast an annual
event exclusive to Eastbourne.
But the current times are tough
and we need the town’s
support. Come to our
performance, tell your friends
and family about us.
“I think our town deserves to
be regarded as one of the best
places to go to in the UK, and it
definitely deserves to hear the
best music and to experience
the most passionate opera.
We’re working on it!”
OperaCoast
Birley Centre
July 20–22
(Above)
L–R: Nigel Foster, Gregory Rose
and Susannah Waters.
24 Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012

Light Inspiration
Local architect Darren Kent explains to CQ why
he supports and displays the work of local artists.
(Above)
Natalie Martin will exhibit
her work in Spitfire’s offices.
Architecture painter Natalie
Martin will be lighting up the
office at Spitfire
Architectural, Planning &
Building Consultants when
she exhibits her work there
throughout June.
Natalie first met Spitfire’s
founder Darren Kent through his
wife Amanda, also a local artist.
Amanda helps organise the Dislocation
exhibition during
Eastbourne Festival, which takes
over a new empty space for each
festival to showcase
contemporary art by local artists.
Natalie said: “I exhibited with
Amanda on a couple of occasions
and, when Darren suggested
having some of my work in the
office, I knew it would look great
as it’s such a good space with
great lighting and a good
atmosphere. I think its light that
actually inspires me. Architecture
is my passion. There is always a
story to be told.”
Since moving into Spitfire’s
new offices in Cornfield Road
in Eastbourne, the company
has been exhibiting the work of
local artists on its walls.
Darren said: “We’ve had
work on loan from local artists
for a number of years now.
We’ll also be involved with Dislocation
next year and hope to
collect some more local work
for our new offices for this.
“I like the detail of Natalie’s
work and the subjects. She paints
the details of buildings that aren’t
apparently special, which reflects
what I like about what we do, as
it’s the sum of lots of details that
make a good building.
“I didn’t want to have mass
produced prints up when there’s
so much local talent around and
it’s easy to get original works at
accessible prices. The work
provides a talking point for
clients, makes the office a more
interesting environment.”
Natalie gained a degree in
sculpture at the University of
Brighton but later discovered a
love of painting, focusing on
detailed architecture.
She said: “Architecture is
such a great thing to paint,
there are just so many different
flavours available, I never get
bored of painting.”
Inspired by Vilhen
Hammershoi, a turn of the
century Danish painter who did
a lot of architectural interiors
and exteriors, as well as
portraits, Natalie keeps
postcards of his work to remind
her to keep up the hard work.
She said: “The quality of the
light in his work is astounding. I
keep postcards of his work to
remind myself that I too could
make something that beautiful
if I put my mind to it and keep
working hard. There are no
figures in my paintings but the
absent hand of many can be
seen through the very existence
of the structures and the
character they have developed.”
Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012 25

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Demonstrating
the Craft
Sussex Guild will hold its forty-second Contemporary
Craft Show, including live demonstrations and
storytelling, at Michelham Priory in August.
Contemporary Craft Show
Michelham Priory
August 2–5
(Clockwise from top left)
John Warren, Mohammed Hamid
and Louise Bell.
Sussex Guild has been
holding its annual four day
Contemporary Craft Show at
Michelham Priory in Upper
Dicker since the guild’s
inception forty-two years
ago, and this year the show
will be held on August 2–5.
Sussex Guild is a group of
professional designer-makers
selected for their high degree of
skill and creativity whose
members live and work in
Sussex or adjoining counties.
Selected guest exhibitors and
members will exhibit their
work in the Elizabethan Great
Barn at the priory and in
marquees on the lawns, and
craft demonstrations will
include blacksmithing,
woodturning, embroidery, quilt
making, leatherworking and
pottery. Storyteller Derek Legg
will also perform on the lawn.
Michelham Priory’s seven
acres of grounds, which
include England’s longest
medieval moat, a kitchen
garden, medieval herb garden,
working watermill and replicas
Iron Age roundhouses,
surround the Tudor house.
Chris Tuckett, property and
events manager at Michelham
Priory, said: “It’s with great
pleasure that we again
welcome the Sussex Guild to
Michelham Priory. The high
standard of work exhibited and
skilled demonstrations make
this a very special show.”
Over forty Sussex Guild
members will display their
work and demonstrate their
crafts. Eric Lamprell will set up
a working blacksmith’s forge,
and Lewes based potter
Mohammed Hamid will show
how he uses his potter’s wheel.
Louise Bell will demonstrate
patchwork and quilt making on
her sewing machine,
woodturner John Plater will use
local wood on his lathe, and
Linda Warrick and Sussex Guild
chair John Warren will show
how they model with clay.
John Warren said: “Visitors
will get to meet designer-makers
in person, watch a skilled
demonstration and maybe
commission their own
individual work of art. We hope
that visitors will love what they
see and it will inspire them to try
a craft themselves or even join
the Guild. The guild is a charity,
and our shows are run by the
members for our members, who
are all professional craftspeople
trying to make a living.”
Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012 27

Eastbourne Presents...
DISTURBANCE
TOWNER
Sat 21 April–Sun 17 June
ANDREW VOLLER
ART EXHIBITION
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 5 May–31 August
THIS IS EASTBOURNE,
THIS IS SEAFORD…
TOWNER
Sat 12 May–Sun 10 June
A POINT OF DEPARTURE
TOWNER
Sat 12 May–Sun 11 November
THE PEOPLE’S MONARCH
TOWNER
Sat 26 May–Sun 10 June
PICASSO AT PLAY
FARLEY FARM HOUSE
Tue 29 May–Thu 26 July
See page 14
THE CEMETERY CLUB
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 29 May–Sat 2 June, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
CHRIS & KEL/R’N’R
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 2 June, 10.00am
SCIENCE MUSEUM LIVE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sat 2 June, 2.30pm
PEOPLE & PLACES
COACH HOUSE GALLERY
Mon 4–Thu 28 June
See page 8
CHICAGO
CONGRESS THEATRE
Mon 4–Sat 9 June 7.30pm,
Sat 5.00pm & 8.30pm
Thu Mat, 2.30pm
PLAYING DEAD
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 5–Sat 9 June, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
FOTT – FROM ROMANTICISM
INTO IMPRESSIONISM
IN MUSIC & PAINTING
BIRLEY CENTRE
Thu 7 June, 7.30pm
THE BOYS
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 9 June, 10.00am
EASTBOURNE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
ST SAVIOUR’S CHURCH
Sat 9 June, 7.00pm
MARIA MARCHANT
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sun 10 June, 2.45pm
ROPE
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 12–Sat 16 June, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
JOE LONGTHORNE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Wed 13 June, 7.30pm
TERRY LEES
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 16 June, 10.00am
SPITFIRE SOLO
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 16 June, 7.45pm
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sun 17 June, 2.30pm
DANGEROUS OBSESSION
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 19–Sat 23 June, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
ALAN BARNES QUARTET
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Fri 22 June, 8.00pm
ARCHITEXTURE
HOP GALLERY
Sat 23 June–Thu 5 July
See page16
DAVID GREENWOOD/
BRIAN WORLAND
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 23 June, 10.00am
VOLCANO
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Mon 25–Sat 30 June, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
See page 23
ESSENCE OF IRELAND
CONGRESS THEATRE
Tue 26 June, 7.30pm
OLD HAT
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 30 June, 10.00am
SWING SESSION 10
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sun 1 July, 3.00pm
A CRICKET MATCH
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 3–Sat 7 July, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
THE SEARCHERS
CONGRESS THEATRE
Wed 4 July, 7.30pm
A PASSION FOR PUCCINI
CONGRESS THEATRE
Thu 5 July, 7.30pm
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PARADISE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Fri 6 July, 7.30pm
HANG ON A MINUTE LADS,
I’VE GOT A GREAT IDEA
DE LA WARR PAVILION
Sat 7 July–Mon 1 October
See page 12
NORAH SANDE AWARD
BIRLEY CENTRE
Sat 7–Sun 8 July, Sat 9.30am,
Sun 2.00pm
GARY DAVIES/KALI & KATIE
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 7 July, 10.00am
HOUSE OF BURLESQUE –
SHIPWRECKED
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sat 7 July, 7.30pm
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
CONGRESS THEATRE
Tue 10–Sat 14 July, 7.30pm
Thu & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
MURDER MISTAKEN
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 10–Sat 14 July, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
FOTT – THE HISTORY OF THE
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART
BIRLEY CENTRE
Thu 12 July, 7.30pm
HAROLD MOCKFORD
TOWNER
Sat 14 July–Sun 30 September
See page 4
THE EDGE IN LANDSCAPE
TOWNER
Sat 14 July–Sun 30 September
See page 20
Congress Theatre Devonshire Park Theatre Winter Garden

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CON BRIO
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 14 July, 10.00am
BUGLE BOY
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 17–Sat 28 July, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
THE RATTONIANS PRESENTS
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
CONGRESS THEATRE
Wed 18–Sat 28 July, 7.45pm
Thu & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
LIANNE CARROLL QUARTET
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Fri 20 July, 8.00pm
JENNY BECKWITH & FRIENDS
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 4 August, 10.00am
A DIAMOND JUBILEE LAST
NIGHT AT THE PROMS
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sat 4 August, 7.30pm
KEN DODD
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sun 5 August, 7.30pm
GIBBS TRIO
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 11 August, 10.00am
LAMENT FOR LORCA
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Thu 16 August, 7.45pm
BARBER, TAYLOR & REED
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 18 August, 10.00am
ARTWAVE OPEN
HOUSE FESTIVAL
LEWES
Sat 25 August–Sun 9 September
See page 22
DEE RIVERS/
MICHAEL SELLINGS
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 25 August, 10.00am
THAT’LL BE THE DAY
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sun 26 August, 7.30pm
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PARADISE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Mon 27 August, 7.30pm
HOW SWEET IT IS
CONGRESS THEATRE
Thu 30 August, 7.30pm
MODERN AFRICAN ART
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Fri 31 August–Sat 29 September
CIRQUE DU CEIL’S SHANGHI
CONGRESS THEATRE
Fri 31 August–Sat 1 September,
7.30pm, Sat Mat, 2.30pm
STOPP
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 21 July, 10.00am
SHOW OF HANDS
HAILSHAM PAVILION
Mon 23 July, 7.30pm
GREG HARPER
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Sat 28 July, 10.00am
THE RAGDOLLS
CONGRESS THEATRE
Tue 31 July, 7.30pm
SUSSEX GUILD
CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SHOW
MICHELHAM PRIORY
Thu 2–Sun 5 August,
10.30am–5.00pm
GOTTA SING GOTTA DANCE
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Thu 2–Sat 25 August, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
THE SOLDIERS
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sat 18 August, 7.30pm
ROYAL MARINES BAND
WINTER GARDEN
Thu 19 July, 7.30pm
GREASE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Mon 20–Sat 25 August 7.30pm,
Sat 4.00pm & 8.00pm
Thu Mat 2.30pm
LEN PHILLIPS BIG BAND
WINTER GARDEN
Wed 22 August, 2.30pm
THE HISTORY BOYS
UNDER GROUND THEATRE
Wed 22 August–Sat 25 August,
7.30pm
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tue 28 August–Sat 8 September,
7.45pm, Wed & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
FOTT – A LIFE IN PICTURES
BIRLEY CENTRE
Sun 2 September, 3.00pm
See page 10
42ND STREET
CONGRESS THEATRE
Tue 4–Sat 8 September, 7.30pm
Thu & Sat Mat, 2.30pm
To Book Tickets:
Birley Centre, St Saviour’s Church:
01323 452255 boxoffice@eastbourne-college.co.uk
Coach House Gallery:
01323 871402
Congress Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre, Winter Garden:
01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
De La Warr Pavilion:
01424 229111 www.dlwp.co.uk
Farley Farm House:
01825 872691 www.farleyfarmhouse.co.uk
Friends of The Towner (FOTT):
01323 411906 www.friendsofthetowner.org.uk
Hailsham Pavilion:
01323 841414 www.spyboy.co.uk
Hop Gallery:
01273 487744 www.hopgallery.com
Towner:
01323 434670 www.townereastbourne.org.uk
Under Ground Theatre:
08456 801926 www.undergroundtheatre.org.uk
Eastbourne College Theatre/Birley Centre
Under Ground Theatre
Towner

Presenting For
Your Enjoyment…
There are several amateur dramatic societies
in Eastbourne. Here, CQ gives a roundup of
what some of them have to offer this season.
Eastbourne Operatic &
Dramatic Society
EODS will perform Macbeth in
the Italian Gardens at Holywell
on July 25–August 4.
Shakespeare’s Machiavellian
general excels at deception. He
possesses an exceptional verbal
ability but is emotionally
immature, easily manipulated
by his alluring and ambitious
wife. He is evasive, quick to
blame others, impatient and
arrogant, but displays a
demonic energy, fighting to the
last, clinging onto a false reality
even when his inevitable demise
is staring him in the face.
The parallels with modern
dictators are hard to deny and
makes the play poignant and
relevant in any age in which it
is set.
Tickets available on
01323 412000
www.eastbourneshows.co.uk
Eastbourne Stagers
Eastbourne Stagers will present
60 Years Of Song & Dance at
the Devonshire Park Theatre
on September 11–15. Director
Luisa Veitch choreographs with
Fiona Dean and Teresa Smith,
with musical direction from
Daniel Goodger and Carl
Woodward, who take numbers
from musicals from the fifties
through to current times.
The show will include wellknown
favourites from My Fair
Lady, The Boyfriend, West Side
Story, Oliver, Hair, Annie, Jesus
Christ Superstar, Grease, Les
Miserable, Starlight Express,
Footloose, Lion King, Our
House, Wicked and Hairspray
among others.
Tickets available on
01323 412000
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
The Rattonians
The Rattonians will perform
Singin’ In The Rain at the
Congress Theatre on July
18–28. The musical started life
as the 1952 film starring Gene
Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.
Set in Hollywood at the time
of the transition from silent
films to talkies’, the film follows
leading man Don Lockwood as
he tries to save the film he’s
working on by changing it to a
musical, despite the leading
lady’s awful voice. The score
includes the classic songs Good
Morning, Make ‘Em Laugh and
Singin’ In The Rain.
The production is directed
by Mark Adams, with
choreography by Jan Lynton
and musical direction from Carl
Greenwood, and includes
genuine rain on stage.
Tickets available on
01323 412000
www.rattonians.com
(Above)
Philip Poole in EODS’s
production of Macbeth.
30 Cultural Quarterly Summer 2012

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