Sunday 14 January 2018

Horsebridge Open 2018 (13th Jan - 28th Jan)

The Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable has a new show: Art Is Something More Dangerous which runs from now until Sunday the 28th of January. The opening hours of the centre are as follows: Mondays to Saturdays - 9am to 6pm. Sundays: 10am to 5pm. Address: 11 Horsebridge Road, Kent CT5 1AF For more info visit: http://www.horsebridge-centre.org.uk/?q=exhibitions
The Horsebridge Centre is located in the heart of Whitstable on a site which has a long tradition of community and cultural activity. Since its launch in April 2004, the Horsebridge has established itself as a quality venue at the heart of arts, social, learning and leisure activities in Whitstable and the wider east Kent area. The Horsebridge Centre has a packed programme of events all year round that includes ground floor galleries, workshops, cafe with balcony and a large performance space for theatre, screenings, talks and live music. The exhibition title hails from the following quote from Simon O'Sullivan's 2001 essay on art and affect: 'But in fact, art is something much more dangerous: a portal, an access point to another world (our world experienced differently), a world of impermanence and interpenetration, a molecular world of becoming.' The exhibition's aim is to bring together artists of all levels who explore the role of art in contemporary society and work in engaging, playful, thought-provoking ways. The submitted works have been curated into a 'living room' space. And the works respond to themes of domesticity, interiors, lived-in spaces and objects, relationships and rituals that exist in these environments, notions of gender, class, dreams, desires, hopes, situations, sounds and atmospheres that artists associate with 'the living room'.

Thursday 11 January 2018

The First Extricate Print Fair

(Above Robot woodcut by Guy Allott). The private view of The First Extricate Print Fair takes place on Thursday the 8th of March at Gallery 64a in Whitstable. http://www.gallery64a.co.uk
The month long event is sponsored by Extricate magazine - http://theextricate.blogspot.co.uk and will feature affordable prints from more than 20 esteemed artists.
Above image by Twinkle Troughton
Above image by Kim James-Williams
Above image by Tinsel Edwards
Above image by Jonas Ranson
Above image by Frank Auerbach
Above image by Peter Harris & Lee "Scratch" Perry
Above image by Sadie Hennessey
Above image by Horace Panter
Above image by Vanessa Winch
Above image by Willkay
Above image by Emma Coleman
Image above by Raksha Patel.
Image above by Mark Jackson.
Image above by James Johnston,
Image above by Jasper Joffe,
Image above by Jock McFadyen,
Image above by Lee Edwards,
Image above by Team Beswick and Pye. The first 20 people to arrive at the gallery on the evening of 8/3/2018 will receive an exclusive framed print signed by artist Jo Mama completely free of charge.