Artistic Shop Window displays needed

Act before 31st July

The highly successful Art in Hailsham Empty Shops project is due for a changeover on 29th August. We will have a 3 week exhibition period, rather than the usual 8 weeks, to cover the Hailsham Arts Festival from 8-16th sept.

There is a special Art Trail leaflet being produced for the festival and we can name artists who will be showing work in the empty shops, although we can not say which shops are available until the last minute.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, crafts, fashion, prints - all kinds of visual art can be displayed. No prices can be shown but you can display your contact details or ask to be contacted via Gallery North or Arlington Arts Group. Full details on the AAG blog page here and here.

If you would like to participate and put a display in one of the available empty shop windows from 29th August until 19th Sept please get back to me in the next couple of days because the leaflet goes to print on 31st July.

Once available units are confirmed, I will get back in touch with those who want to display and arrange who will be showing work where. All I need for now is names.

The empty windows will provide an excellent opportunity to publicise the Hailsham Arts Festival so it would be great if you could draw or paint a poster/canvas/board advertising the festival. You can see the logo and more information about the festival programme on the website www.hailshamartsfestival.co.uk.

Arlington Art & Craft Show 2012 - photos

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Newsletter - July / August

Click here to see the latest Newsletter DATES FOR YOUR DIARY more info in the Newsletter 5th July - Pastel Workshop at Arlington Village Hall 5th July - Art Photo show at Gallery North 9th July - deadline for Hailsham in Bloom pictures 10th July - deadline for Hailsham Arts Festival Art Trail entries 13th July - Uckfield Arts Festival begins 13th July - The Edge in Landscape, Towner 14th July - Harold Mockford, Towner 20th July - Uckfield Art Trail begins 22nd July - Summer Open ll Private Viewing at Gallery North 28th July - BBC filming at Amberley 2nd Aug - Working Large workshops start, Arlington Village Hall 8th Aug - Painting sessions start in the gardens of Pickhams 20th Aug - deadline for articles for AAG Newsletter 25th Aug - Lewes Artwave begins 29th Aug - changeover of art in empty shops 1st Sept - AAG Newsletter out 4th Sept - Hanging of Hailsham Library art exhibition 8th Sept - Hastings Coastal currents begins 8th Sept - Hailsham Arts Festival and Art Trail begins 13th Sept - AAG Open Evening 22nd Sept - Chiddingly Festival begins 1st Oct - The Big Draw

We have also had some more post deadline news items arrive:

Shirley Trevena RI would like to invite you and your club members to an exhibition of work by the Sussex Watercolour Society. Several members will be doing demonstration paintings including Shirley on Saturday 14 July, 2-5 pm

AND
Seaford Art club are having an art exhibition at the Crypt gallery from 30th of June to 5th of July.
Alfriston Festival Art exhibition is from Wednesday 22nd to Monday 27 of August 2012.

More Art blooms in Hailsham Empty Shops

A team of 9 gathered on Wednesday evening to clean up 4 of the empty shops in Hailsham High Street and to display works of art to tie in with the Hailsham in Bloom floral theme. 3 hours and several bin bags later, having been scrubbed, scraped, buffed, polished, swept and dusted, all 4 shops sported gleaming windows full of original art, some of it by first time exhibitors. The exhibition runs from Wed 28th June to Wed 29th August when there will be another changeover of art ready for the Hailsham Arts Festival (8th - 16th Sept).

Get creating!

 We have the use of the Greengrocers inside the Quintins so we now need some bespoke pieces created to display as soon as possible - the frontage is made up of shutters of 28 windows which are 100cm wide by 25cm high and the work will need to be taped to the inside filling each window pane. If you are happy to create and *donate a suitable piece (*as it is being taped to the windows and the door is a shutter the work probably can not be removed without being damaged), please do let me know. The theme is Hailsham in Bloom so get creating!

Take part

If you would be interested in showing work in the future and/or  helping to clean up more of the empty sops in Hailsham, get in touch.

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Josie Tipler and Jill Church

Viv Sang and Wendy Bysouth

Claire Redpath and Kirsty and Ian Davis

Rod Parker and Pam Robinson

And the cleanup squad also included Cllr Steve McAuliffe of Hailsham Town Council who is working hard to gain access to all of the empty shops to get them cleaned up and in use. If you want to discuss a project with Steve  you can contact him via the Town Council website.

Bluebell Winners

Winner of Category D, Brenda Carr. 58 votes. ©Brenda Carr

Winner of Category C, Michael Gower. 38 votes. ©Michael Gower

You can see the originals of these paintings on display in Hailsham Library during the annual Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th and 16th September.
Many thanks to everyone who took part and to those voted during their visit to this year's Bluebell Walk and Farm Trail at Bates Green in Arlington.

Art Trail - call for entries

Hailsham Arts Festival includes an Art Trail which now extends out to cover 'fringe' events in Wilmington, Berwick and Arlington areas. If you are interested in showing work in your own home or using a venue in the area to show work, please fill in the application form and return as soon as possible before 10th July. The Festival dates are 8th - 16th September.

Open Exhibition - call for submissions

Gallery North in Hailsham are calling for submissions for their 2nd Open Exhibition in the Summer. See full details on the form below - submission form deadline 30th June.
FORM

Pastel workshop

5th July, 7-9pm, Arlington Village Hall. Local artist and tutor Teresa Currie will be giving us a demonstration and workshop in pastel and watercolour. All welcome. Please bring your own materials.
£6 visitors, £4 AAG members.

May / June Newsletter

Art Trail info for Hailsham Arts Festival

Visual artists invited to take part in the Art Trail for Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th and 16th Sept.
Art Trail booking form HERE

Bluebell voting

Votes have been counted for the entries into this year's Paint me a Bluebell  competition. 423 votes were cast. The winner in Category D had 58 of the votes, the winner in category C had 38 of the votes. Once the winners have been informed, I will post their names and photos of their entries on here.
You can see the originals of the winning entries at Hailsham Library during Hailsham Arts Festival in September (7th - 17th).

Countdown to Art & Craft Show - 12/13th May!!

We are all hoping that the sun will shine at the weekend but it won't make any difference to us at the art & craft show as everything is inside this year. Sadly our toy stall lady cannot make it as she has broken her hand (we wish her all the best for a speedy recovery) but there will be silver jewellery, pottery, beadwork, knitted goods, buttoncraft, needlecraft, embroidery, handmade cards and gift boxes, scarves, glasswork, photography, artist's cards, paintings, drawings, the Village Jubilee Quilt, refreshment and a  'have-a-go table' to paint a piece for our group Jubilee work of art.

Entrance is just £1 (under 16's free).
Free parking (there may some overflow parking in the field if we are busy so bring your wellies as the grass is long).
Open 10.30 - 5, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th May. Arlington Village Hall (BN26 6RX).
Collection in aid of Chestnut Tree House.

While you are in the area, you might like to stroll round to visit St Pancras Church, or if you fancy a longer walk head round to Arlington Bluebell Walk which is still open as the bluebells are only just coming into full glory and you can vote for the winner in the Paint me a Bluebell competition while you are there (www.bluebellwalk.co.uk). We have 2 very good local pubs - the Yew Tree (almost next door to the Village Hall) and the Old Oak about 2 miles away.  Abbots Wood and Arlington Reservoir are also nearby.