Viva Lewes Issue 117 June 2016

ART
ART & ABOUT
In town this month
Fire Dance (detail) by Susan Lynch
Chalk Gallery features Earth-Fire-Water, the
expressive and abstract work of Susan Lynch
from the 6th to the 26th, with paintings free of
preconceived ideas and big on immediacy and
movement. Meet the artist on Saturday June 11th
between 2pm and 4pm. At the gallery from the
27th is an ode to opera. The 21 ‘Chalkies’ exhibit
images both of, and inspired by, Glyndebourne.
Join them on the 2nd July at noon.
Locus – a collection of paintings exploring
location and the lines between domestic and
wild by Rachael Plummer is at the Hop
Gallery from the 4th to the 14th of June.
That’s followed by Dado Aid from Saturday
18th – culminating in a charity auction on 25th.
Displacement continues at the Foundry Gallery until the 5th with
a series of installations, workshops and performances. Then, from
24th, Artemis Arts mark the impending closure of the gallery with
Industry and Arts - A Story of Lewes. Photos, film, recordings and
artefacts about the ironworks founded on the site in 1832 and an
invitation for anyone who worked at the Phoenix or East Sussex
Engineering to come along and share their stories and pictures.
It’s the Summer Exhibition at St. Anne’s Galleries
from the 25th featuring work by 20 artists – the
usual St Anne’s stable plus eight guest exhibitors -
including two nominees for the prestigious John
Moores painting prize.
Pelham House exhibits Flight - linocuts, woodcuts
and collagraphs exploring migration by Claire
Mumford and Lewes Castle in Light and Time by
Matthew Thomas: photographs (below) inspired
by Cézanne’s paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and
Hokusai’s views of Mount Fuji.
Falling Blossom by Jack Frame at St. Anne’s Galleries
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