Festival 15 catalogue

Angie Braven Stephen Buckley Matthew Burrows Gus Cummins Jean Davey Winter Colden Drystone Rachel Glittenberg Marilyn Hallam Tom Hammick Robin Holtom Clyde Hopkins Andrzej Jackowski Oska Lappin Chris Milton Kathleen Mullaniff Joe Packer Eugene Palmer Alessandro Raho Alan Rankle Mario Rossi Charlotte Snook Olivia Stanton Geraldine Swayne Peter Waldron

Published in April 2018 to mark the 15th anniversary of Hastings Arts Forum

Introduction Festival 15 is the Arts Forum’s anniversary

The two galleries in this fine listed building

celebration of the rich art scene in Hastings

on St Leonards seafront provide a flexible

and St Leonards-on-Sea. It is a tribute to

and elegant space for an infinitely varied

the tenacity, vision and imagination of those

programme of shows throughout the year.

dedicated volunteers who have kept the

All disciplines are represented: drawing,

Arts Forum alive since its beginning in 2003.

painting, photography, mixed media,

The artists selected for Festival 15 give an

sculpture, textiles, and ceramics. Artists may

indication of the depth and range of talent

apply to exhibit in this beautiful sea-lit space,

in the area, and an insight into the different

with special rates available for members.

journeys that can constitute a life lived for the creative arts.

For a gallery to have such a consistently high standard of curated exhibitions is

The Arts Forum, which became a charity

quite extraordinary, and seems particularly

in 2011, is run by artists and people

appropriate in a town where difference is to

interested in the arts, for a community of

be celebrated and conventions unravelled.

artists, providing a place for networking,

Even for those who are not artists, the Arts

training, co-operation, an affordable

Forum has become synonymous with the

exhibition space and a base from which

creative character of the town. It is a focus

the town can be promoted as a centre

for countless projects and its ever-changing

of excellence.

exhibitions are a witness to the invention, intelligence, generosity and integrity of its membership.

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Angie Braven I have always felt a need to paint. I studied

Angie Braven is a member of the Rye Society of

at Chelsea Art School in the swinging sixties:

Artists and exhibits annually in their Summer

bliss! Everything was possible.

Show. She has exhibited for many years in

After having a family and tutoring part-time in Art Schools for years, I feel quite liberated: I can paint however and whatever I want.

the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In her extensive career she has shown at the Battersea Arts Centre, the Mall Galleries and Angela Flowers.

I make series of paintings on different subjects. Recently I saw a film made forty

Recent exhibitions include:

years ago of myself painting (I was painting

Solo exhibitions:

angels) and realised that I have just finished

2018 An Exhibition of Paintings by Angie Braven

a painting of angels.

Fleet Gallery, Kings Road, St Leonards-on-Sea

In the last seven years I have made many

2015 Angie Braven Paintings Conquest Hospital,

works about the exploitation of women: my

Hastings

Brides for Sale series and also an angry series

Group exhibitions:

of paintings about F.G.M. – harrowing, but

2018 To be Continued: Artists in Hastings at

not without beauty.

the Jerwood Gallery, part of Gus Cummins

Now I am painting tropical landscapes and Hastings Fishing beach, plus angels.

O Happy Days.

exhibition Off the Wall 2014 SoCo Artists in the Crypt at St Mary in the Castle, Hastings angelabraven.com

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Fresh Tales of Folly, 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 106cm x 102cm.

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Stephen Buckley For more than forty years Buckley has

Stephen Buckley studied Fine Art at Kings

concerned himself with addressing the major

College, Durham University under Richard

themes of the twentieth century through a

Hamilton (1962–67) where he was involved in

personal style oscillating between the matiere

the reconstruction of Duchamp’s Large Glass

of Schwitters, the dandyism of Picabia

and then at the University of Reading (1967–9)

and the intellectual rigour of Duchamp by

under Terry Frost and Claude Rodgers.

deconstruction and reconstruction.

He has taught variously at Canterbury College

Eventually self-reference was inevitable and

of Art, Chelsea School of Art, The Royal College

there is now a large portfolio of themes,

of Art and was Artist in Residence at Kings

references, motifs and symbols which are

College, Cambridge (1972–4).

continually reworked and reinvented.

He was appointed Professor of Fine Art at the

Scale has always been significant from the 20

University of Reading in 1994, and Professor

foot La Manche (1974) to a great number of

Emeritus in 2009.

‘carry on’ sized works over a period of years.

He has held over fifty solo exhibitions worldwide and is represented in many national collections.

He is represented by Austin Desmond Fine Art. stephenbuckley.com

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Debut, 2018. Oil on canvas board with rope. 49cm x 38cm x 6cm.

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Matthew Burrows The artist Matthew Burrows lives and works in

Matthew Burrows took an MA in Painting at

the rolling hills of East Sussex where his studio,

the Royal College of Art in 1995 and received

on the site of an old windmill, is perched on a

a John Moores award in 2006 and 2001. He

ridge between valleys. Despite the beautiful

was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery,

views and clear vistas Burrows’ sense of place

London 2000–01.

is far from sentimental. His relationship with habitat is not one of description or nostalgia,

Recent exhibitions include:

but one of dwelling and ritual. It is a process of

Solo exhibitions:

mythologising, of drawing meaning from the particularities of the environment, of realising its wilderness and ours.

Burrows’ paintings are reflective, thoughtful

2017 Beyond the Garden Wall Vigo Gallery, London 2014 Para-dice, Vigo Gallery, London Group exhibitions:

and slow to reveal a complex structural space

2017 Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery,

of marks, shapes and pigment. He uses thin

Eastbourne

washes of oil paint scrubbed and scratched

2016 Permeable Edge: Exploring Conversations in

into and across the surface, creating strange

British Painting Over Eighty Years, Otter Gallery,

half states where colours and images hover

Chichester

on the edge of description. Painting on gesso grounds Burrows creates an unusual softness across the hard and porous surfaces: fast and slow, thick and thin, rough and smooth. He finds his reality in paradoxes and thresholds rather than objective certainties.

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He is represented by Vigo Gallery, London matthewburrows.org

Oasis, 2016. Oil on board. 180cm x 149cm.

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Gus Cummins Having been born just before the end of

Gus Cummins is a member of The London

World War II, the enormity and horror of

Group and was elected Royal Academician in

it didn’t sink in until I was in my 30s/40s.

1992. He has taught at several art colleges,

Thinking about my dad’s war, (Dunkerque

principally at Chelsea College of Art and the

and North Africa) and later, seeing newly

Royal Academy Schools. He exhibits annually

discovered documentary film footage,

in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and

I was struck by the sheer visual excitement

is a member of the Rye Society of Artists.

and the strange paradox – destruction and ruin / breathtaking beauty in images of horrible events.

I prefer a more enigmatic than literal route.

He has work in public collections in the UK and in Chicago, and his most recent award was the Jack Goldhill Sculpture Award from the Royal Academy 2005.

I want to be shocked by powerful music I haven’t heard before!

Seeing work I wish I had done is life-affirming.

A metaphorical kick-up-the-behind!

Recent exhibitions include: 2018 Off The Wall – a personal monograph, at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 2013 London Group Centenary at Pitzhanger Manor, London 2012 RA Now (Anish Kapoor to Zaha Hadid), Royal Academy, London guscummins.com

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Nothing to report, 2015. Acrylic. 59cm x 79cm.

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Jean Davey Winter The initial inspiration for this work stems from

Jean Davey Winter studied at Birmingham

a visit to Cuba in 2017.

College of Art and Design where she gained

This is an extraordinary culture, a dense web of associations and contrasts. It conjures up words like: seductive, poetic, alchemy and magic. There is a constant awareness that

her NDD in Printed Textiles. In her final year she was awarded a Travelling Bursary from the Royal Society of Artists which she used to travel extensively in Scandinavia.

this vibrancy, colour and energy combine

She has exhibited in Germany, Holland,

and conflict with reminders of a darker past.

France, the USA and Japan, besides numerous

Here the splendour and decay of colonial

exhibitions in the UK.

domination co-exist alongside the more recent revolutionary graffiti.

Recent exhibitions include:

The work is intentionally ambiguous, it is

Solo exhibitions:

hoped that there is sufficient space for the viewer to bring their own interpretations to it.

2015 Aereality, Hastings Arts Forum 2014 Landmarks, Studio11 Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire Group exhibitions: 2017 Personal Narratives, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wisconsin, USA 2016/17 Living Landscapes, a touring show including Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, Yorkshire and Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland jeandaveywinter.co.uk

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Malecon, 2017. Mixed Media and acrylic on canvas. 76cm x 102cm.

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Colden Drystone Colden’s work includes painting, film,

Colden Drystone gained a Distinction on

performance music, installation and

completion of his Foundation Diploma at

sculpture. He records his creative inspirations

the University of the West England in 2004.

as truthfully as possible, sharing the

He went on to study at Chelsea College of

properties of creative forces and asking the

Art and Design where he was awarded a BA

viewer to consider the process of making

(Hons) Fine Art in 2007.

something from nothing.

Recent exhibitions include:

He was a recipient of the Mahler Foundation

2017 New Gold Works at Object d’Epoch,

Residency Award in 2013, a residency

Hastings as part of Coastal Currents Festival

program in Spoleto. In the autumn of 2013 he

2017 Potential for More, performance

was appointed Artist in Residence at Girton

work with Caustic Coastal, Islington Mill,

College, Cambridge creating Believing in Time

Manchester

Travel a monumental golden clay installation.

2016 Ahead of Time, Hannah Barry Gallery,

His first performance film Moors and an

London

exhibition of the series of monotypes entitled

2015 Climbing Castel Monte, Palazzo Collicola

Images was also shown.

Arti Visive, Spoleto, Italy coldendrystone@tumblr.com

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Significant Other, 2017. Pigment, glue, charcoal and pencil on board. 120cm x 91cm.

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Rachel Glittenberg Using a mix of my imagination, life drawing

Rachel Glittenberg took her BA in Fine Art

and photographic references, I borrow

at University of East London in 1990 and an

elements from history and folklore to explore

MA in Arts Administration at Angela Ruskin

what it means to be a woman in the 21st

University 1995. She has work in private

Century.

collections in Australia, the US, UK, Singapore

The women I paint are at ease with themselves and not generally paying attention to the viewer. I want my women to be challenging to look at, which is why I often paint them face on or close up, producing a feeling of intensity. Their postures and direct gaze are expressions of their sense of self.

These figures are powerful yet feminine.

and New Zealand.

Recent exhibitions include: 2017 Winter Show, Cameron Contemporary Gallery, Brighton 2017 Sussex Open 2017, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 2017 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2017 Piano Nobile Kings Place, London rachelglittenberg.com

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Two wings, 2018. Oil on canvas. 60cm x 60cm.

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Marilyn Hallam I used to like the Orphists and the Futurists,

Marilyn Hallam took her BA (Hons) in Fine

Leger and Boccioni: simultaneity – a light

Art in 1969 and MFA in 1972 at Reading

going on in a building as a potato is squashed

University. She was awarded a Boise

in the road, but the cubists were better at

Travelling scholarship in 1969.

dealing with fractured time/space, best done pictorially rather than polemically.

Slowly I have found a way of synthesising my experience of being alive in space so that the observer can feel such seeing is possible and even feasible on the canvas. I try to do this without fitting everything in, as common sense might dictate.

But painting can have too much of common

Recent exhibitions include: 2017 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal 2017 Small is Beautiful, Flowers, Cork Street, London 2017 London Art Fair, Advanced Graphics, Design Centre Islington 2017 Creekside Eleven, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, curated by Mali Morris RA

sense‌ marilynhallam.com

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Big Path II, 2015/2017. Oil on canvas. 17.5cm x 12.5cm.

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Tom Hammick British artist Tom Hammick has described

Tom Hammick has a BA (Hons) in Art History from

the landscape in his work as a metaphor

Manchester (1985), a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1990)

to explore an ‘imaginary and mythological

and an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell

dreamscape.’

(1992). He was Artist in Residence at Snape

Drawing from a wide range of sources from Japanese woodblock prints to Northern European Romantic painting and contemporary cinema, Hammick’s depictions

Maltings for the 71st Aldeburgh festival; was awarded the V&A Print prize at the International Print Biennale, Newcastle and was Artist in Residence at ENO 2014/15.

of isolated human dwellings grounded in

Hammick has work in many major public and

uncanny dream-like settings summon the

corporate collections including the British

uneasy atmosphere of a psychologically

Museum; V&A; Bibliotheque Nationale de France;

charged thriller, or a dystopian suburban

Deutsche Bank; Yale Centre for British Art; and

nightmare.

The Library of Congress, Washington DC. Recent exhibitions include: Solo exhibitions: 2017/2018 Lunar Voyage, Flowers Gallery London, Flowers Gallery NY & Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh 2015 Wall, Window, World, Flowers Gallery, London Group exhibitions: 2016 Towards Night, Towner, Eastbourne 2015 Face to Face: British Portraits from the Clifford Chance Collection, Sir John Soanes Museum, London He is represented by Flowers Gallery, London tomhammick.com

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Waiting for Time (study), 2016. Oil on canvas. 107cm x 136.5cm.

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Robin Holtom After teaching in adult and further education,

Robin Holtom graduated from Chelsea

and running residential courses in Wales, Italy

School of Art and the RCA before working

and Spain, I have concentrated on my own

as an Art Therapist for 12 years. He was

painting and Sculpture for the last 30 years.

elected Associate of the Royal Society of

As I grow older I find myself more fascinated

by Cezanne’s late paintings of bathers. They are both passionate and yet contrived – like an Opera. My paintings of bathers explore this paradox.

British Sculptors in 1999. He has exhibited in commercial galleries in England and Wales and shown at the Discerning Eye, London Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair and 20th Century Art Fair. Moving to Hastings in 2000 he founded SoCo and was a trustee of the Hastings Arts Forum for three years.

Recent exhibitions include: 2016 Paintings and Sculptures, Gallery 54, Mayfair, London 2016 Paintings and Sculptures, Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards-on-Sea 2014 Paintings and Sculptures, Gallery 54, Mayfair, London 2009 Paintings and Sculptures, Hop Gallery Lewes robinholtomart.com

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Bathers against blue, 2017. Oil on canvas. 30cm x 30cm.

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Clyde Hopkins I was born in nearby Bexhill some seventy

Clyde Hopkins trained at the University of

years ago. The countryside and coast around

Reading where he was awarded a BA (Hons)

here, where Sussex meets Kent, I like very

in Fine Art (Painting) in 1969. He has had a

much – large individual trees and tangled

distinguished career as a painter and teacher

woods, river valleys and drainage channels,

and in 2008 was made Professor Emeritus

low hills, marshy fields, pebbly beaches and

at the University of the Arts London. Clyde

big skies.

has received a number of awards including

Although I’m not a painter of the landscape or the sea, I employ forms, conjunctions, structures, groupings of shapes that are organic in nature; asymmetry and awkwardness in composition interests me.

Perversity and something akin to nostalgia encourage me to introduce elements that are unnatural, such as tasteless colour relationships and relentlessly imperfect dots.

in 1980 the Mark Rothko Training Fellowship (USA) and the Lorne Award in 1998 Recent exhibitions include: 2017–18 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London 2017 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal, Kent 2017 Creekside Eleven, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire 2017 Fully Awake, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow clydehopkins.com

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Andrzej Jackowski Time of the Dream-7; The image came out of

Andrzej Jackowski, has degrees from

a commission by Paupers Press (London) to

Camberwell School of Art (1967), Falmouth

produce a book of 52 lithographs 2015; one a

School of Art (1969 and 1973), Royal College

week for a year.

of Art 1977. He has been awarded the South East Arts Fellowship at the University of

‘… a place of life and death, of disembodiment

Surrey, won First Prize at John Moore’s 17,

and sex; a place of things breaking up and

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and in 2016

being put together again. It is a subconscious

the London Original Print Fair Prize at Royal

land which distils the essence of the self.’

Academy, London.

Rachel Campbell-Johnston

Recent exhibitions include: Solo exhibition: 2017 A Space in the Dark, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 2014–15 Time of the Dream, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London Group exhibitions: 2016–17 Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 2014–15 The Eyes are Listening, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery He is represented by Purdy Hicks Gallery, London jackowski.co.uk

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Tim of the Dream 7, 2015. Oil on wood. 43cm x 53cm.

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Oska Lappin As a narrative based self-expressionist, I

Oska Lappin received her Masters in Fine Art

begin by making a mental storyboard of the

from Camberwell and was the 2010 winner of

saturation of imagery from films, books, real

the Artichoke Prize. She has curated several

situations to overheard conversations and

exhibitions including Billy Childish and Group

gossip - whatever stimulus I come into contact

Show Beggars Hunting By Magic.

with. My mind seethes until it’s ready to explode and then it’s time to begin working.

In 2017 she published a book of graphic poetry and woodcuts: Scary Amerika.

I bought a one-way ticket to London from the USA in 1993 and have been here ever since.

Recent exhibitions include:

I feel well positioned in Britain, somewhere

2017–18 Axis, Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milan

between the US and Europe, ready to

2015 Woodcut Heart, Blackshed Gallery,

transcribe human expression in all its forms

Robertsbridge

into a visual language that says something

2015 Arbeit Aus Holz, Kleine Rathausgalerie,

whether it’s funny and makes people laugh or

Landshut, Germany

feel slightly ‘unheimlich’. Creating unease is a

2014 Sublimate, Sublime, Subliminal, The

key element in my work.

Underdog Gallery, London and Lloyds Club

The UK is a society where humour is an essential undercurrent and has added an element to my work, which celebrates the island of Hogarth; The Sex Pistols, the ludicrous Royals, brilliant writers, poets…

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of London oskalappin.co.uk

Mean Girls, 2017. Oil, spraypaint and graphite. 59cm x 75cm.

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Chris Milton My current work is exploring inner space, the

Chris Milton has degrees from the University

subjective side of memory, using the physical

of Brighton (1973) and Hornsey College of Art

act of painting and drawing to reconstitute

and Design. (1977). He has had an extensive

a memory. Within that process of rendering

career running programmes at Art schools

and remembering it becomes modified,

across the UK including the Chelsea School of

romanticised and probably idealised into an

Art and the Royal College of Art.

archetype of a person or place or both.

He has also been awarded numerous design

I try to avoid limiting interpretation by using

commissions for national magazines, albums

words to describe what I paint or draw,

and advertisements for Pan Books, The

ultimately you just need to look and reflect.

Observer, the New Scientist and he won the

As when you stare at a flower you don’t

Benson and Hedges Illustrator of the Year

question what it is about, it just simply “is”

Gold Award in 1985.

and it seduces you into your own floral memoir’s. I guess I‘ve made a display of dried

Recent shows include:

flowers that hint at symbolic archetypes,

2018 Origin Gallery, Dublin

twisted and rooted in meanders of some

2016 Book of Art Cards, Frieze Art Fair, London

romantic past. I try to make “beautiful,” open,

2016 Derwent Drawing Art Prize, Mall Galleries,

poetic things evocative of person and place,

London

with the intention to be sincere and romantic,

2009 Rebecca Kormind Galleri, Copenhagen

to the point of embarrassment beyond words.

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chrismilton.net

Milk Blossom, 2017. Oil on board. 60cm x 90cm.

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Kathleen Mullaniff Marianne North (1830–1890) lived in Hastings

Kathleen Mullaniff was born in County

and was a botanical painter. I had seen her

Longford in the Republic of Ireland in 1957.

works at the Marianne North Gallery in Kew

She took a B A in Fine Art at the University

Gardens as a child. The works: In a Walled

of the Arts, Camberwell College of Art

Garden are inspired by her floral paintings.

and Design, and an MA in Fine Art at the

I explored drawing in one layer of oil paint

University of London, Goldsmiths College.

working at speed in order to make bold bright

Kathleen has been a Senior Lecturer at

expressive works celebrating flowers and

Middlesex University BA Fine Art Course

organic structure producing compositions

since 1990. She was a founder member of

from a contemporary viewpoint.

Chisenhale Studios and Gallery (1981-2007)

I was fascinated that Marianne North came from Hastings and I went on to research her life and work as a female botanist. I carried out this project in order to re-appraise the Marianne North paintings and to inform my ongoing concern with floral imagery, decorative structure, pattern and ornament.

and was awarded an AHRC grant in 2002 to research the botanical drawings of Les Roses by Pierre-Joseph Redoute. In 2004 she co-founded the Patternlab and took part in ‘Touch, Textiles, Technology’: a collaboration across Europe at Goldsmiths College.

Recent exhibitions Include: 2017 Personal Relations, Pulchri Studio,The Hague and Vernissage, Vicenza, Italy 2017 Textile and Memory, The Dick Institute, Scotland 2015 Garland, MYB Textiles, Killmarnock 2014 In a Walled Garden, a book of paintings shown at The London Art Fair kathleenmullaniff.com

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In a Walled Garden, 2014 Oil on canvas on wood panel. 90cm x 120cm.

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Joe Packer My recent paintings could be described as

Joe Packer took his foundation course at the

invented landscapes with a psychological

Berkshire College of Art and Design, and was

element. These paintings try to evoke the

awarded a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Painting at the

memory of a place whilst at the same time,

Norwich School of Art in 1992. He received an

having evolved through making processes

MA (Hons)in Fine Art, Painting, from the Royal

that are not preplanned or prescriptive.

College of Art in 1994.

They are images that can visually function in a self-contained way, with a kind of inner life

Recent exhibitions include:

of their own.

2018 Ghost Mantle, Electro Studios Project

The paintings occupy a kind of hinterland between abstraction, where the brushstrokes are non-referential, and figuration, where the spaces depicted allude and relate to landscape, without being overtly descriptive.

Space, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex 2017 And If a Double Decker Bus, Kingsgate Project Space, London 2015 Foule Parlement, Rye Creative Centre, Rye, East Sussex 2013 Broken Roads and Shrinking Magic, Electro Studios Project Space 2013 Form/Function, Piccadilly Space Manchester joepacker.blogspot.co.uk

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Skumtimmen, 2017. Oil on canvas. 105cm x 86cm.

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Eugene Palmer ‘Eugene Palmer is a Jamaican born British

Eugene Palmer studied at Sutton Coldfield.

artist. His work uses archival records,

Wimbledon and Goldsmiths College London.

photographs and contemporary media imagery as basis for his paintings.

Collection and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. His

in his work.

exhibition Transforming the Crown: African, Asian

migrated and found new lives in other places, his paintings reflect upon both the joy and sorrow of the migrant experience. From the portrait to landscape to the seascape his painted and drawn mark is full of empathy and questioning. Since making a commitment to figurative painting, Eugene has taken as his subject assorted and diverse aspects of the Black presence in a number of contexts.

Primarily, these are the Black presence in Europe, the Black presence internationally, the Black presence in portrait photography and the Black presence in Western (art) history.’

Eddie Chambers

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private collections, including Arts Council

Eugene Palmer explores identity and history

Tracing the journeys of those that have

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Palmer’s work is held in several public and

& Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966–96 was shown at the Caribbean Cultural Centre, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Recent exhibitions include: 2016 Didn’t It Rain, James Hockey & Foyer Galleries and Elaine Thomas Library, University for the Creative Arts 2016 Skyline, Electro Studio, St Leonards-on-Sea 2016 FOIL, Kingston University, London 2015 The London Group Annual Exhibition, the Cello Factory London iniva.org/library/digital_archive/people/p/ palmer_eugene

Didn’t it Rain, (Black), 2017 Oil on canvas. 150cm x 105cm.

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Alessandro Raho ‘The potent mix of abstraction and figuration

Alessandro Raho was educated at the

in Raho’s work elucidates one of the key

Croydon College of Art and took a BA in

aspects of his approach to painting, in which

Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 1994. In 2005 he

he makes the issue of ‘style’, in all its senses, a

painted a portrait of Dame Judi Dench as

central element.

an award from the JP Morgan Fund for New

The way Raho toys with different modes of painting, adopting either hard-edged, photobased realism or misty romanticism in the pastoral tradition of Constable and Turner, mirrors the politics of taste and style as played out by his sitters. The figures’ manner

Solo exhibitions: 2017 The Critic as Artist, Reading Museum, Reading 2015 Alison Jacques Gallery, London

fashion imagery and the geographical array

Group exhibitions:

of places all tend to convey the fantasy of

2015 We Transfer: Mark Leckey + Alessandro

aspiration as much as reality.

Raho, Secession, Vienna, Austria

importantly, who we want to be or who we want to appear to be. In this sense, Raho is truly a painter of modern life.’

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Recent exhibitions include:

of dress and pose, the repeated reference to

Raho not only captures who we are but, more

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Commissions.

2014 Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart: Painting in Britain Now – from Auerbach to Wragg, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex Alessandro Raho is represented by Alison

Nicholas Cullinan. Alessandro Raho. London:

Jacques Gallery, London

Lund Humphries, 2011

www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

Jessica, 2011. Watercolour on paper. 76.5cm x 58.5cm.

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Alan Rankle ‘Alan Rankle exploits all the historical

Alan Rankle had his first exhibition at the

possibilities of the landscape tradition by

Institute of Contemporary Arts London in 1973

entering into a complex dialogue with the

while still a student at Goldsmiths College.

codes of landscape art.

Retrospective surveys of his work have been

He does this not in an ironic or mocking way but affirmatively, to express continuity and development, and to explore contemporary social and environmental issues.

He seeks to suspend the painting at that

presented at Gallery Oldham in 2006 and Fondazione Stelline, Milan in 2010. Recent projects include immersive installations for six suites at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester in collaboration with the designer Veronica Givone and AFK Architects.

balanced point just before the mark, in all its expressiveness, dissolves into the illusion of

Recent exhibitions include:

the image.’

Solo exhibitions:

Roger Woods

2016 Pastoral Collateral Art, Bermondsey

Artline International 1993

Project Space, London 2015 Lost Horizon, Maerz Contemporary, Berlin Group exhibitions: 2016 The Contemporary Classic, The Cob Gallery, London 2014 How The Light Gets In, Galleri Aveny, Gothenburg He is represented by Weston Smith Art Management and Cob Gallery, London, Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea, Milan and Maerz Contemporary, Berlin

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Untitled painting XXVI (Bodiam), 2018. Oil on canvas. 100cm x 100cm.

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Mario Rossi Annex # 1’ 2016 combines printed data with

Mario Rossi has an MA from the Royal College

paint to create spatial tensions between

of Art, is a Gulbenkian Rome Scholar, a Fellow

reading as surface and topographical space.

in Creative Arts at Trinity College ,Cambridge

These particular circulars headed ‘Unsafe practices associated with the transport of migrants by sea’ come under ‘Health and

and has a Fulbright Award for Visual Art. Recent exhibitions include:

Safety’.

Solo exhibitions:

In contrast to the procedural aspects of the

2015 Canal Projects, London

painting process, these are highly objective reports that give information relating to: type of boat – name of owner – location of interception – action – outcome – number of people involved – gender and nationality. Each entry relates an incident and they repeat in a seemingly endless procession.

2018 Solaris, St Leonards-on-Sea Group exhibitions: 2017 The Vigorous Imagination Then and Now, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh 2017 Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always, Towner Eastbourne 2010 Unspooling Art and Cinema, Cornerhouse, Manchester studio@mariorossi.co.uk

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Annex #1’, 2016 Watercolour ink, archival inkjet print, mounted on canvas. 75cm x100cm.

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Charlotte Snook The paintings I make are small, although to me

Charlotte Snook trained at Hornsey College

the size of the picture plane doesn’t matter;

of Art and the Royal College of Art where she

I still grapple with the composition, the colour,

was awarded an MA in Painting. She has taught

the quality of the marks, the fluidity of the

at a number of art schools, principally Central

painted surface, just as if I were working on a

Saint Martins where she was Senior Lecturer in

much larger scale.

Foundation Studies from 2002 to 2009.

There is often a narrative, a sequence of the same subject approached in different ways through both drawing and painting.

I frequently borrow from other artists, Velasquez, Joseph Wright of Derby, Crivelli and others more obscure and when I do I feel

Recent exhibitions include: Solo exhibitions: 2015 The Painted Cloth Folly and Frailty, St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes 2011 Rare Affairs, Basement Gallery, Boise,

part of a continuous fellowship of painters

Idaho USA

through time.

Group exhibitions: 2018 To be Continued: Artists in Hastings, Jerwood Gallery as part of Gus Cummins exhibition Off the Wall 2017 Axis: London Milano 2017, Tracce di Vapore, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, She is represented by Sarah O’Kane Contemporary Fine Art charlottesnook.net

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The King of Spain, 2018. Oil on board. 21cm x 15cm.

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Olivia Stanton ‘Although her paintings are always based

Olivia Stanton was born in Norfolk. She

on particular places and views – here and

studied painting in the 1970s at the Byam

there one can distinguish a row of trees,

Shaw School of Art (now part of Central

the curve of a road or fence, even a dustbin

St. Martins) in London, and has exhibited

– they are essentially abstractions, and

regularly since then, both in Britain and in

glimpses of recognisable features of the

France where she lived for several years.

landscape are rare.

These are skilfully controlled paintings.

with Jonathan Clark Gallery London in 2015,

The colour is rubbed on and no brushstrokes

and in 2016 a Retrospective with Candida

are visible, but they are given a wild sense

Stevens Fine Art in Chichester, the gallery that

of movement through the abstract shapes

now represents her.

themselves. With a particularly subtle deployment of colour, sometimes sombre, sometimes brilliant, the artist creates a variety of different moods.’

The Week

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Latest of her many solo shows have been

She is listed in ‘Artists in Britain since 1945’ (David Buckman) and has work in numerous private collections both here and abroad. candidastevens.com/artists

Something Borrowed. Oil on canvas board. 135cm x120cm.

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Geraldine Swayne Geraldine Swayne is a portrait artist whose

Geraldine Swayne studied Fine Art at

work is informed by her multi-faceted

Newcastle University from 1985–89 and in

experience as a film maker and experimental

1990 she won a Northern Arts Travel award.

music artist.

A John Moores finalist in 2010 for painting

From making super-8 films about Voodoo in New Orleans she became a pioneer special effects designer at Computer Film Company, in London and later, Los Angeles. Since 1999, she has made numerous experimental films

at Walkers Gallery, Liverpool, she was nominated as one of the top ten art/music cross-over artists by Dazed Magazine in 2014.

In 2015 she had a residency at Acme Fire Station, London.

including the world’s first super-8 to Imax film

She worked with Jake and Dinos Chapman,

‘East End’.

rebuilding Hell.

Her paintings, (she uses enamel on small

Touring with rock band Faust, she has made

copper or aluminium panels), have the effect

musical improvisations and live paintings at

of historical miniatures, but her sensibility is

Wrexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio and Detroit

contemporary: pornography, landscape and

Museum of Contemporary Art and CalArts.

portraits are her subjects as she negotiates the subtle aesthetics of intimacy and the

Recent exhibitions include:

dynamics of performance.

Solo exhibitions:

Her work is a fine balance of delicacy and

2017 Silvering, the Fine Art Society, London

extremity.

2013 Geraldine Swayne, Future Art Projects, Sheep Lane, London Group exhibitions: 2015 Performance and Remnant, Fine Art Society, London 2014 & 2013 The Future Can Wait, B1 for Saatchi Gallery, London geraldineswayne.org

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Pink Youth, 2017. Enamel on aluminium. 17.5cm x 12cm.

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Peter Waldron I see my work as being a continuation and

Peter Waldron was educated at the Swindon

development of predominantly western

School of Art, Chelsea School of Art, and

painting with obvious references within the

was awarded a Fellowship in Painting at

work to the key players.

Gloucestershire School of Art. He was studio

I want my work to have lasting dignity, yet, at the same time, like life, to be serious fun.

In every painting there is one special bit – it’s a part which is peculiar to that particular painting. It is the part which has occurred as a result of a process of change, decision making and adjustment. It’s the part which simply arises and is only recognised once the picture

assistant to Patrick Caulfield from 1967–69.

Recent exhibitions include: Solo exhibitions: 2017 Swindon Museum and Art Gallery 2013 Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath Group exhibitions: 2015 Zeus, Museum of Visual Arts, Heraklion,

is finished.

Crete

Peter Waldron currently works from studios

London

in Hastings East Sussex and Milatos Crete.

2012 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre,

He is represented by Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath peterwaldron.co.uk

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Zeus Series 33, 2016. Acrylic on paper. 115cm X 84cm.

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Acknowledgements The Festival 15 exhibition was curated by: Matthew Burrows, Robin Holtom and Charlotte Snook Hastings Arts Forum would like to thank our sponsors: The Fairlight Trust Kings Stationers Sussex Coast College Hastings Editor: Simone Witney Design: Erica Smith, Wordsmith Design Printed by www.pureprint.com

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