Latest Art in Empty Shops, Hailsham

     

On show til 19th Sept – get in touch if you are interested in putting together a display in one of the windows. It does not have to be art!!

NEWSLETTER

Arlington Arts Group

NEWSLETTER

Sept 2012 – Feb 2013

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Art Exhibition at the Library Our exhibition at Hailsham Library starts on Tuesday 4^th September for a month and is part of the Hailsham Arts Festival Art Trail. The winning entries in the ‘paint me a bluebell’ competition will be on show plus work from most of the regulars at the Thursday Arts Sessions.

If you wish to show work, please arrive at the Library at 8.30am to hang it. The screen are Velcro so the pictures either need to be light enough to hang with a self adhesive Velcro patch or have a long enough cord to hang from an ‘s’ hook. Provide a label to go beside your work and put contact details on the back – the library will give your details to anyone interested in buying your work so they can contact you directly.

Free Session Our Thursday evening art sessions at Arlington Village hall are gradually becoming busier and have a lovely atmosphere, with several children attending with their parents. Over the winter months we do tend to be a bit quieter so to attract more regular members we are having a Free Session on Thursday 13^th September. Please tell all of your friends and get them to come along and join in for the evening with no commitment. We even have some materials that they could use if they don’t have any and plenty of art magazines and reference books for inspiration.

The suggested theme for the evening is ‘All that Jazz’ but, as usual, everyone is welcome to work on their own project.

Competition In August the competition subject was "Superhero" and we the winning picture was an excellent portrayal of batman painted by Helen Gander who won a £20 voucher for Jacksons Art Supplies.

Teresa Currie On 5th July we had a very enjoyable demonstration and workshop with Teresa Currie who used chalk pastels to create an atmospheric scene of a lighthouse in beautiful shades or purples and pinks. You can see the picture in one of the windows in Hailsham high Street until 19th September and Teresa will be running a workshop on this subject on Wednesday 12th Sept at Gallery North – tickets are £15 and are available from the gallery.

Christmas Open Evening Thursday 13^th December – all welcome. We will have a display of work by regulars and some small items for sale so you may pick up a last minute present. Drinks and nibbles.

Arlington Arts Festival 2013 We will be planning the dates (probably June) and details for this soon – please let us know if you would like to be involved in any way. If you remember, in 2011 we had live music events, local art trail venues and the annual Arlington Art & Craft Show.

We really do need more committee members to make this event possible – if you could take on a role, anything from steward to publicity manager, please do let us know.

Artist of the Month
Each month we invite one of our members to bring a selection of their work along to one of the Art Sessions to show us. Some will give a short talk, some will just leave the work to be browsed through - it's informal but a great way to see some of the work that we don't usually get to see and, often, to find out a bit more about how the artist began their artistic 'journey'.
Sue Groom was our artist of the month for July. Sue’s best subject at school was art, she worked in Liberty’s in Regent Street then had the chance to use her artists skills as a window dresser for Straickers. Once her children had grown up, Sue then started attending art courses and holidays and has a wide selection of floral and landscape watercolours and drawings.

Hailsham Art Group The inaugural meeting of this new group will be on Monday 17^th September 2-4pm at Gallery North, with the second session being on Tuesday 18^th Sept 6.30-8.30pm.  Josie Tipler will start each session with a half hour demonstration then members can either work on their own project or the subject of the demonstration. We will cover a wide variety of subjects and mediums, with the first week covering Animal portraits in Pastels.

Sessions will be £6, and will run every Monday and Tuesday - the Tuesday evening demonstration will be a repeat of the Monday afternoon so members can attend either or both. There will initially be no membership fee.

Space at Gallery North is limited so please book your place in advance. 01323 485153  hailshamartgroup@gmail.com. www.hailshamartgroup.blogspot.com

Hailsham Arts Festival This takes place from 8th - 16th September and there are many local Art Trail venues. Local to Arlington we have the Wilmington Art Group exhibiting at the Wishing well Tea Rooms on the A27, Wilmington; Anne Howard and Josie Tipler will have a show of work at Pickhams in Hayreed lane, Wilmington, and Josie will be giving brief free painting demonstrations every day at 2pm;  Michael Gower will have a selection of his work on show in the Village Shop in Upper Dicker as well as in Callenders in Hailsham High Street.

For full details of all 46 art Trail venues, pick up the 2 trail maps from Gallery North or look on the website www.hailshamartsfestival.co.uk.

Programmes of all of the festival events are also available at the gallery and many other local venues including the library and on the website.

Hailsham Art in Empty Shops  Many of our members have work on show as part of the art in Empty shops project in Hailsham high Street. Do pop along and have a look.  These windows are part of the Hailsham arts Festival Art Trail and are attracting a lot of interest.

There will be a change around of art on show on 19th September. if you are interested in showing work, please get in touch. It has been a great success all round with not only good exposure for the artists but several subsequent sales and commissions and the letting of a couple of the shops.

Art and Craft Sale - Polegate Community Centre,Winsdor Way, Polegate, Sunday 25th November, 11am to 4pm. Sale of surplus / secondhand materials and equipment. 01323 740043 / polegateartandcraftsale@hotmail.co.uk to book a pitch. No trade stalls.

Studio 11 is part of The Old Printworks building near The Enterprise Centre in Eastbourne which offers quality teaching in a purpose-built new studio with great lighting. We offer weekly drawing and painting classes and monthly specialist textile classes. Please visit the website and contact Roz Nathan or Christine Chester for any further details. www.studio11eb.co.uk

AAG Membership AAG Membership is due on 1st February each year – fees to be reviewed. Membership entitles you to discounted rates at AAG events and exhibitions, cover under the group's SAA Insurance at all SAA art events, discount of 10% at Pictures and Frames of Horam, members prices on products from the SAA shop when ordered through the group.

Arlington Art Evenings
Thursdays, 7 - 9pm in Arlington Village Hall
£2.50 adults, £1 accompanied under 16’s (for fees for demonstrations, workshops and other events, please check.)

All welcome - no need to come every week. Bring your own materials / equipment. You can carry on with your own projects or work on the 'suggested theme' each week as you wish!

Dates and suggested themes:
6th Sept - Spain

13th Sept – Free session - no fees, all welcome. Suggested theme “All that Jazz”
20th Sept NO SESSION

27th Sept - "Reflections"

4th Oct - "Floral"
11th Oct - "Autumn"
18th Oct - "Yellow”

25th Oct - "Pumpkin"

1st  Nov-"Crystal"

15th Nov - NO SESSION

22th Nov- "Rusty" [Change - This is now a watercolour workshop session, see post above]

29th Nov - "Moonlight"

6th Dec - "Get knotted"

13th Dec – XMAS open evening
These details are subject to change if, for instance, we book a demonstrator or tutor. Please check the website or village hall noticeboard for updates.

Please note that there will not be any more regular Newsletters posted or emailed. Updates will be posted on the Village Hall noticeboard and on the website.

An annual report will be prepared close to the AGM – you will be able to order a printed copy. 

The date of the AGM in February 2013 will be published on the website and posted on the Village Hall noticeboard.

Remember to keep checking the Village hall noticeboard and the website for updates and news. www.arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk

Contact Us
Chair:
Josie Tipler 01323 485153
Secretary:
Anne Howard 01323 870 842
Membership:
Brenda Carr 01323 871 430
Events Secretary:
Camilla Pennant
Treasurer:
Hazel Hooker: 01323  846 085

email: info@arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk

 www.arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk

c/o Hailsham Creative

The Old Courthouse

High St, Hailsham

BN27 1AU

New Art Group starting in Hailsham

A new Hailsham Art Group will be starting on 17th September 2012 at Gallery North in Hailsham - full details on the website, http://hailshamartgroup.blogspot.co.uk/

Not such a pane

UPDATE: We would like a changeover of art on 29th August. If you're interested, get in touch asap.

A new venue joins the 'gallery' of Art in Empty Shops in Hailsham. This one is in the Quintins Centre in the High Street.
Arlington Arts Group created some special panels to fit the window panes plus we are displaying some past entries in the Paint me a Bluebell Competition.

I called the letting agents for the 3 empty units next to Tesco and all 3 have now been Let - in fact there are decorators in the end one and a furniture store is opening soon. Good news.

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.